Production controller Sethu’s revelation about director Bhadra’s efforts to complete his film had garnered attention on social media. In it, the revelation that Suresh Gopi had bitten a live rat in the movie Yuvathurki had become a hot topic. Bhadran says this incident is true. But the director says that there is a correction in it.
Bhadran says that he read a news item titled ‘He fed a rat with Suresh Gopi’ but this should not be written like this. It is true that the rat was alive. But Bhadran said that the artist was even willing to bite a live mouse for the perfection of the character.
‘The art director came up with a model of the mouse to take the mouse-eating shot. But he could not accept it. Because the shot in my mind was to go into the mouse’s eye in full close-up in a mouse-biting shot and capture the benevolence and gleam in its crystalline black eye. ‘
‘That life-giving shot can’t be made with a mouse model. That’s how live mice are brought up. When I said that, Suresh was happy to do it. The rats were used after being scrubbed with hot water and Dettol. Bhadran says that ‘Yuvaturki’ was a high-tech film set in Tihar Jail at that time and that is how the scene was shot.
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