Harish Shankar’s Honest Advice To Aspiring Directors

Whether the film is made to appeal to the masses or the classes, surely there is something in Valmiki which got rechristened as ‘Gaddalakonda Ganesh’ for the people working in the film industry. Sticking to the core point that cinema is above ego, director Harish Shankar gave honest advice to wannabe directors.

Apparently in one particular scene where one aspiring director wants to give up a project because he’s not doing the film with the hero (lead actor) he expected, the character played by Tanikella Bharani gives great advice. “Sometimes you may ignore or look at an ‘opportunity’ carelessly, but the ‘chance’ might not come again in life. So, it’s better to adjust and do things rather losing the chance”.

But Harish Shankar has clarity. He’s not asking people to compromise on things they want to do, but only asking them to do minor adjustments. “Leaving the work you love wholeheartedly to do something else is called compromising. But making things work by doing it other way round is called adjusting” his dialogue says.

These pieces of advice are for some of those directors who lost big chances as they are not willing to make adjustments and work.