cast me that they will have a good experience working with me because i will do my best for the role and not give them any sort of troublespeaking of work that is what brought you back to the city from your farm whats happeningthere were a couple of projects that had started precovid so after we were allowed to get back and shoot all these projects resumed there is one in tamil ponniyan selvan which is being directed by mani ratnam there is one in telugu acharya which is a chiranjeevi film there are also a couple of smallbudget films including a bilingual called kaliyugam that stars shraddha srinath and there is one called bw a film that is also shot in black and white a thriller that i had to take over as director as we wanted to capture the value of the story on hand this was shot almost two years ago and we are now working on the postproduction of this rather confusing film the audience trusts a director to tell a story and in the process offer an experience i am doing that with this one actors have a limitation as they are bringing the vision of the director to the screen a star is different as people come to watch the star on screen but by and large films are a directors medium an actor and directors ideas or creativity could coincide too though that is rare there are a couple of scripts that i am cowriting again none of these are my own scripts as my brain does not work that way there are many new writers with no experience and there is me who can bring in the experience i hope to direct some of these as wellare these scripts that you are working on tailored for a theatrical releaseas of now we are looking at small productions these small productions initially had a market with ott now even the big budget films are looking at ott as a platform and that has not worked too well for smaller films it is business after all and the platforms will choose bigger films over smaller ones however that leaves no place for smallbudget films the platforms are now asking even the smallbudget films to first see through a theatre release and then come back for a deal especially after some directtoplatform releases turned out to be not good enough the pressure is therefore on all filmmakers there is no transparency anywhere at the theatres or at these platforms at the end of the day the producer is the only one who bears the brunt of it all it is a tricky affair too because despite all this we cant stop making films as they are a wonderful tool to tell a storykishores current priority shaktiright in the midst of his acting and scripting commitments and being available for his children especially when his wife vishala is away on community work involving