Comments on: Loyola Goes to Hollywood

By: Vishnu Menon M

Vishnu Menon M — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:48:27 +0000

Looking forward to the movie.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:05:47 +0000

Sriram, thanks for telling us about “Ek Mohabbat.”

Syam, I saw some pre-event publicity on Orkut. What I heard was that he didn’t attend ‘Back to School’ in 2007.

Rahul, yes, the achievements of Loyolites are the most popular here, if you look at the stats. Thank you for revealing the emotions that well up when you read such stuff. Thanks also for your encouragement — it re-vitalises me, in this two-way street.

By: Ashok’s blog on Loyola School: The ARChive : Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) » » Choosing a Career

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:30:27 +0000

[...] Santosh Sivan (1976) blogged about watching clouds and predicting rain as a kid: But unconsciously what it did [...]

By: rahul warrier (isc '97)

rahul warrier (isc '97) — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:47:32 +0000

* applause *
Thanks for these little gems you bring our way every month Ashok! It is certainly refreshing to get back to this ‘watering-hole’ that you have created for us Loyolites – global and local!
It is not very often that something that is read moves people with very high inertia quotients (like me, obviously) to put a few words down. But your posts tend to make this childishly simple. The simple association with Loyola, of things big and small – is a fact that never fails to bring a smile to any one among us. The overwhelming sense of pride, in a sense, is more a re-vitalizer than anything else!!

By: Syam Nath S

Syam Nath S — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:02:43 +0000

It must seem so funny to outsiders that we are refering to the guy as “santhosh chettan ”
heh
ye all his movies ive seen are just so amazing.

met him at the last AGM i think. or was it the back to school.

By: Sriram P

Sriram P — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:41:19 +0000

I wonder if anny of you have noticed the video of the song “Ek Mohabbat” (sometimes called “one Love”) released by non other than AR Rahman as part of the Vote for the Taj campaign. It was also done by our Sathosh chettan. It you havent seen it, check it out.. its just awesome…

By: Ashok

Ashok — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:13:41 +0000

Breaking news on the Web! – Before the Rains wins three awards at Houston Worldfest — Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Music.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:59:31 +0000

Yes, Karthik. Only a masochist would watch a Santosh Sivan movie on a small screen, and that too from a pirated VCD. The picture in the blogpost gives us an inkling of the visual spectacle. Years ago, the sunrise shot at the start of “Chinna Chinna Aasai” (in Roja) took my breath away.

Jiby, the desk-art would’ve been inspired by a school mag article on Santosh Sivan (it appeared before 1991). If it was from the 1970s, then, I vote for shifting it to a museum of Loyola history. In the light of your comment and the discussion on politics in Loyola, I’ll revise the remark to: A Loyolite has the mentality of an Englishman but wants to be an Indian.

By: Jiby

Jiby — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:18:26 +0000

Haha, yes you are beaten…I have been waiting for this one…Ashok, thanks for bringing us this interview!

The first time I came across his name(and his brother Sangeeth’s) was not on celluloid but on a desk in Std.4,5 or 6(can’t recollect exactly now) on which both their names were engraved with compass(i guess!). Later when roja and yodha came out and everyone at loyola talked about these two men, I remembered that engraving. Maybe if Santhoshchettan is reading this post, he can confirm if this was his handiwork

My favorite films among the ones he photographed are Perumthachan, Vanaprastham and Dil Se. His malayalam directorial venture, Ananthabhadram, though visually brilliant was let down by the script, maybe because of the budget constraints of malayalam cinema which deviated the story significantly from the novel it was based on. I haven’t yet got a chance to watch any of his offbeat films like Terrorist or the recent Navarasa.

Ashok, about finding a Loyolite in Rahul Bose’s character – if you generalize a loyolite like that I wouldn’t agree. But I think most Indians go through a phase where they mimic the west. I believe we loyolites come out of this quicker than others.

Ashok, anyways thanks for letting me know of the May 9 screening in LA, I will definitely be going…do you know if Santhosh will be coming?

By: Karthik.C

Karthik.C — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:01:29 +0000

Great to hear about Santosh’s Hollywood venture. Good luck to him. He has come a long way from the days he started his career under directors like I.V.Sasi, ten Mani Ratnam and then becoming a director through ‘Terrorist’.

For instance, it’s perfectly normal for us to sit in front of computers and crack our head on logic, and equally normal to sit and do religious rituals and break coconuts .

I like these sort of themes (ABCD type), but hopefully, he will have some different point of view to show in ‘Before the Rains’.

“Why Malayalam? Our research says, Hindi and Punjabi are better options, since Malayalis don’t see films and only buy pirated VCDs”!

Well..Hopefully many of us Loyolites would go see this movie in a theatre