Director SS Rajamouli says that his upcoming movie Varanasi has an episode from Ramayana that is featured for 25 minutes. It was shot for 60 days and it is one of the most satisfying sequence.
In interview, SS Rajamouli spoke about the challenges he had in shooting Varanasi and said, "There were a lot of challenges like how do you balance between because most of my audience in cinema scope they watch most the cinema film screens are cinema scope. So it was quite a challenge whether you shoot for Imax and frame for cinema scope or do you shoot for cinema scope and frame for Imax. How do you do that? That was quite a challenge."
The director added, "My DoP had a lot of meetings with technical team of Imax and creative discussions with me. We came out with formula that works for my films when do you prefer or prioritise which format? Of course the whole film will be available in cinemascope 1 is to 1.9 and major portions of the film will be available in 1 is to 1.40. So how do you prioritise this the framing was a big challenge and we were able to find a formula for my film."
SS Rajamouli has taken an episode from Ramayana for Varanasi. Talking about it, he said, "Most of my films are inspiration from the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. In this film I had a chance to literally shoot one episode from Ramayana. That episode of the film is the combination of multiple sub episodes. So this entire thing put together is about 25 minutes runtime in the film. So shooting that sub episode each one was like making film in on its own."
He added, "The emotions we had to go through that sequence are different from one episode to one episode and sub episode to sub episode. The creative challenges were different. The technical challenges were different. So for everything, it was like approaching a completely new film. Each sub episode that was really challenging. We had to put all our brains together. All our efforts together to shoot that sequence we shot it for 60 days and one of the most satisfying sequence for me."
