'I also feel that if I had a tough script, then pulling it off would've been tougher. For some reason, I never felt like assisting anyone, but the inexperience of learning something new as a filmmaker in itself is a memorable experience for me. I also directed one of those films, but I never assisted any director. 'I wrote three short films as part of a trilogy. How did you manage to become a director without any prior experience? I wanted to make the film before this generation moves on,' she added. 'I didn't want to postpone any longer because I was scared that I would be left behind by this generation. 'Vanakkam Chennai' has been lying with me in the form of a story for over three years until I decided to turn it into a script,' she said. 'I was a literature student in college and had a flair for writing, which led to the founding of my magazine Inbox 1305.

But I have also learnt that it's not in my nature to yell and, therefore, I get it done on request,' she added.įor Kiruthiga, 'Vanakkam Chennai' started merely as a hobby, more or less as an extension of her writing profile. I feel I need to get assertive, short-tempered at times like male directors to make something happen. 'The only challenge I face as a woman filmmaker is that I don't yell enough to get my job done. My film is a light-hearted comedy suitable for all types of the audiences,' said the director who feels she needs to be little assertive vis-a-vis her male counterparts in the industry. 'I don't have to make a women-centric film when there is absolutely no need for one. But it's not the same anymore because women filmmakers are beginning to choose different genres and making films with different subject,' Kiruthiga told IANS 'It's probably because women felt suppressed in the past that they made films with female's sensibility. Wielding the megaphone for the first time, Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, who is busy wrapping up Tamil romantic-comedy 'Vanakkam Chennai', feels that women filmmakers are no more sticking to female-centric films but are exploring different genres and subjects.

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