00:00 When I decided to make a film, there were two reasons that I did Ugram at that point of time.
00:10 The first reason was, I wanted to make a film.
00:17 I wanted to do because he was also not doing great at that point of time.
00:21 I wanted to be brave. We watch Hollywood films and think, "What a big deal we are doing!"
00:31 So when I started that journey, the amount of passion that I had...
00:38 There is a kitchener, who makes Telugu films so well, Tamil films so well, and they have a big budget.
00:46 Their quality is so beautiful. I had all this in mind and I was passionate about it.
00:52 It has to be one of the best looking movies.
01:11 I was passionate about it. I did not know anything about the market. I did not know what Murali's market was, what a new director's market was going to be.
01:19 I went out and spent a lot of money. I did all of those things.
01:29 Things went terribly bad for me during the filming of Ugram.
01:33 It took four years. From the day I started shooting to the day it released, it took me four years.
01:41 We did reshoots and everything. I wanted to give the best film.
01:57 Kannada cinema has to look good. It's not like the others who are not going to do it.
02:04 But there is a courage.
02:20 When Dinesh sir and Dinesh sir came, the film was released. The film was released and it received a good appreciation.
02:28 Twenty days, my movie was out in piracy.
02:32 99% of whoever has watched Ugram has watched it either on the mobile or on YouTube.
02:40 Now, somebody was that passionate. Somebody who had the ideology that Kannada cinema should be good.
02:50 Kannada cinema should look great. So, my ideology is based on Ugram itself.
02:57 My first experience. How much I learned about cinema, I learned about life also.
03:03 From that day onwards, I said I have to do first whatever it takes to make my family happy.
03:19 I have made back ten houses like that today.
03:22 But I sold a house. In that entire process, Nalak Varsha, Saal Dal Idhe, Vijji Sarru, Eshwaru, they bailed me out.
03:31 Now, where is the question of passion in all of this?
03:37 There is no passion when it comes to cinema for me.
03:41 It is a business for me.
03:46 And in that business, I do my best.
03:49 I do my best to give a product that I am here to entertain.
03:53 I am not here to serve.
03:56 I will always maintain that I am who I am because of the Kannada film industry.
04:02 But the Kannada film industry is not here because of me.
04:07 It never will be. Not because of one person. Not me or anybody else.
04:14 So, passion died a long time back.
04:17 So, whoever I am, whatever skill I learned, whatever I have done, I have done it in Ugram and I have learned from Ugram.
04:24 If you have done a movie, you want people to come to the theatre to watch that movie.
04:31 You don't want them to watch it on a mobile.
04:36 That's not why you went and did DTS. That's not why you did colouring for it.
04:40 One of the best cameras I used at that point of time, nobody knows that.
04:44 I used Panavision camera.
04:46 To watch it on mobile.
04:50 So, you understand where I am coming from.
04:52 It becomes more easier if I tell you straight up.
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