Parallel cinema is more challenging: Alagappan
Renowned Malayalam cinematographer N Alagappan feels that working in parallel cinema is far more challenging as compared to exhibiting skills in commercial flicks.
By PTI |
PANAJI: Renowned Malayalam cinematographer N Alagappan feels that working in parallel cinema is far more challenging as compared to exhibiting skills in commercial flicks.
"Parallel cinema experiments in every aspect - camera, movement, camera angles, composition, lancing and exposures," Alagappan, who's cinematography was appreciated in Malayalam movie "Ore Kadal" screened in the Indian Panorama section of IFFI 2007, told the media.
But this does not in anyway restrain the veteran cinematographer from enjoying commercial cinema.
"My priority is parallel cinema. You can enjoy it more vividly. I feel that parallel cinema is more pure," the cinematographer, who has several state and national awards to his credit, said. As a cinematographer, Alagappan minces no words in appreciating Bollywood blockbusters like `Black' and `Saawaariya' which according to him had excellent cinematography and camerawork.
In terms of cinematography, Alagappan considers Indian cinema better than Hollywood.
"In Hollywood, all the films are technically advanced but most of the films follow similar kind of lighting and they are not much experiment oriented," he observed.
The field of cinematography is getting dominated with `digital inputs' because in every aspect people want either gimmicks or different kind of visuals. "So even for ordinary cinema we have to apply graphics and use digital analyser to change the image which you shoot," Alagappan explained.
He, however, admits that every cinematographer has to be receptive to present audience taste.
"Parallel cinema experiments in every aspect - camera, movement, camera angles, composition, lancing and exposures," Alagappan, who's cinematography was appreciated in Malayalam movie "Ore Kadal" screened in the Indian Panorama section of IFFI 2007, told the media.
But this does not in anyway restrain the veteran cinematographer from enjoying commercial cinema.
"My priority is parallel cinema. You can enjoy it more vividly. I feel that parallel cinema is more pure," the cinematographer, who has several state and national awards to his credit, said. As a cinematographer, Alagappan minces no words in appreciating Bollywood blockbusters like `Black' and `Saawaariya' which according to him had excellent cinematography and camerawork.
In terms of cinematography, Alagappan considers Indian cinema better than Hollywood.
"In Hollywood, all the films are technically advanced but most of the films follow similar kind of lighting and they are not much experiment oriented," he observed.
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The field of cinematography is getting dominated with `digital inputs' because in every aspect people want either gimmicks or different kind of visuals. "So even for ordinary cinema we have to apply graphics and use digital analyser to change the image which you shoot," Alagappan explained.
He, however, admits that every cinematographer has to be receptive to present audience taste.
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