Hi Ramanand, You are absolutely right, that song was picturised at Chalakudi, Kerala, where in so many songs have been picturised earlier, Mani made it look loke Srilanka.. thats what he does always..
--- In [email protected], "J Ramanand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Durba, > > I may be completely wrong here, but it could just be a set that was > put up for the song. Sabu Cyril put up a lot of wonderful sets set in > Sri Lanka in studios and on location in Kerala, and IIRC, there was > little (or maybe even no) shooting in Sri Lanka. Knowing Mani Ratnam's > penchant for carefully shooting near water(falls) , this is more > likely to have happened in India. > I did a quick little web search and retrieved > http://rajeevsnair.blogspot.com/2005/10/artist-interview-art- director-sabu.html. > This has a reference to "huge Buddha statues placed strategically on > the Chalakkudy waterfalls in neighbouring Kerala." > > Maybe some of the Sri Lankan members on this group can confirm if such > a location exists and if yes, whether the song was shot on location. > > Cheers, > Ramanand > > > 16. [semi-ARR] Kannathil Mutthamittal location???? > > From: durba bhattacharjee > > > 16. [semi-ARR] Kannathil Mutthamittal location???? > > Posted by: "durba bhattacharjee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] durba.bhattacharjee > > Date: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:21 am ((PST)) > > > > I want the name of the place where the title song of Kannathil > > Mutthamittal was shot. Was it in Sri Lanka? Can anybody tell me? > > Specially the place where there was a huge statue of Lying Buddh. It > > is kind of urgent and I really need the name of the place. I hope > > some1 in this group would be aware of that destination. > > > > Thanks and regards > > > > Durba Bhattacharjee > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Webpage: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~ramanand > Weblogs: > Personal: http://quatrainman.blogspot.com > Interrobang (the quiz blog): http://notesandstones.blogspot.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
