Yesterday, Shiva sent me a short message with the link to a movie.  I was really busy reviewing my new website. Still, clicked the link and went back to my review sheet.

A few seconds later, the soundtrack of the video playing in the background caught my attention. I stopped my work to  replay the video. Suddenly a mix of English and Tamil dialogues with a dash of Hindu was refreshing! I was reminiscing my Bengaluru days. If you do not know yet, I did my schooling and engineering from Bengaluru.

After watching the movie, I wiped the tiny tear drop at the corner of just one eye and decided to learn a bit more about the maker of the movie.

And this is what I came to know from the maker of the movie that’s also nominated in the 5th Norway Tamil  Film Festivals 2014 for the Competitive Category.

Read on the e-interview with Shiva Shankar:

Why did you make this movie?

The Crux of the story was born, when I heard about my colleague’s grandpa expiry. She and her Grandpa used to communicate in letters for a very very long time. He doesn’t miss a week, writes to her every week. When I heard the sad news, The first thing strike my mind was, Who will write her letters, again ?

This formed the base for our story and We build the Screenplay around it. We wanted to convey the beautiful practice of letter writing to Children of this generation and designed our story such a way that her Son writes to his Mom, who had a very good memories of Letter Writing in the Past and missing them now.

Wanna show the current generation children about a lost emotion.

What kind of reaction and feedback your movie has received?

A Creator is happy, when the concept & emotion is transferred to the audience completely.
As a debut independent filmmaker, I feel proud to have chosen this knot as my 1’st Script, as the feedbacks and reviews are encouraging and motivating. More than 50% of the feedbacks are People had tears in the Climax. The film had reminded them their past, letter experiences, who wrote them letters, their penfriends.. etc.

It was heart touching when few of my friends wrote their reviews in a paper and gave us.
And this inspired my 5.5 yrs old daughter to write a letter to her cousin, and she wrote it with our guidance. Glad her school management has accepted to conduct a small session to their kids to write letters to their parents, next week.

Watch the movie Ippadikku

About Shiva as told by him:

“I hail from Salem (Tamil Nadu). Currently residing in Pune from 2007.

I work for an App developing Company as part of the Design Team.

I am an Engineering Graduate (BE – EEE) from SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (University of Madras )’ 2002.

But my Passion was films. After Graduation, I tried for a year and half to get into films in Chennai, which didn’t work out and later choose 3D Animation as my career, 
which attracted me, as I looked it as an another platform to be involved in movie making 🙂

Shiva Shankar Natrajan can be reached here https://www.facebook.com/y2kstudin