Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, who is quite confident about his upcoming film, Viswaroopam 2, says that it’s an espionage film with a heart. “I always believe in an espionage film. My eldest maternal uncle was in the police department and moved on to the Intelligence Bureau, so the stories that we heard from him were absolutely on the other end of the spectrum as compared to the James Bond films,” Kamal says, adding, “We all wanted to join MI6 and he trained with MI6, and the stories that he used to tell were something else. So, I always wanted to get that feeling into films.
As a matter of fact, when we made Nayagan ... we decided (that) our bad guys will not wear checkered shirts and scarves on their necks; they’ll be such that you won’t be able to differentiate them from common people; but they will be indulging in the darkest of deeds. So, that’s exactly the direction we went in.”
Talking about path-breaking films in Hollywood, he said: “The one that gives me goosebumps will be Once Upon a Time in America of Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone. It was very instrumental for us to get inspired to make Nayagan. Leone set a trend that many ad filmmakers followed afterwards, and Morricone’s music lives at least for f o u r generations now, as I know it. “There are so many things, especially the casting, that made ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ astounding. You don’t have to explain with dialogues. You just see the characters and you know who’s grown up into what,” he concluded.
