i develop stories it so happens that i think mostly of male characters even im interested in creating more female characters in fact whenever she sees me trisha tells me you should do a girls film why should boys alone enjoy your films and i jokingly retort if you and nayanthara give me the dates ill do it i think its a great idea and i should get cracking on thatthe trailer indicates that the film will have a lot of visual effects yes the film has a lot of cg work so it was very challenging for us even while we were shooting the scenes when you watch the film the scenes might look so simple and you will not realize how hard it was to shoot them the cg work was done entirely in india visual effects studios larvel and gemini from chennai and prime focus from mumbai are involved in the cg works we have talented people here what we dont have is the budget give the necessary budget and time and you will see indian visual effects on par with anywhere else in the world that doesnt happen to every director only rajamouli sir and shankar sir are allowed that indulgence herethere was a lot of buzz around the team filming in bulgaria what prompted you to shoot there i actually wanted to shoot in canada but we were told shooting there would be very expensive so we eventually shot in bulgaria which is where a lot of hollywood and european movies are being shot today and matched canada in bulgaria they have the facility of matching the us and canada there in terms of landscapes buildings and properties they are actually developing their capital sofia into a kind of a lower version of hollywood there are so many studios and hollywood films like the expendables were shot there we could actually get canadian cars and other canadian things that we needed for the shootyour combination with yuvan is something fans expect a lot but this time there was quite a bit of controversy surrounding the films music what happened actually the controversy was created only by the media and we were quite clear on what we were doing actually we had planned a kuthu song and that is why we approached thaman yuvan had composed the song and we wanted thaman to orchestrate it but when we were editing the film we noticed that the placement of the song created a lag in the narrative and slowed down the film unnecessarily the films duration was also getting extended and today people want shorter films so we decided to not use the song at all once we took the decision gnanavel sir told us that he will use the song for another film of his we informed thaman of this and he is quite cool with it everybody knows that my combination with yuvan works pretty well and even in this film he has done some