The 61-year-old-actor, Sunil Lahri, who is best known for portraying the role of Lakshman in the famous 1987 television serial Ramayan directed by Ramanand Sagar has expressed his views on VFX effects used in Adipurush movie. He publicly revealed the fact that it was difficult for him to digest it, in an interview. He further added that unlike Adipurush, there were zero ‘cartoonish effects or sneering’ in Ramayan television series. Substnatiating his statement he added that in the current scenario no one is likely to put efforts into the work of filmmaking.
In an interview to DNA, Sunil mentioned that, “Definitely it (VFX) was difficult to digest that. See, at that time (during Ramayan) we were new to technology, we tried to achieve the best with our maximum efforts. That’s why people still appreciated it even 35 years after of its release. The young generation doesn’t feel that the show had ‘cartoonish’ (effects), or made a mockery out of that. Agar iss tarah ki technology rahi hoti… toh ho sakta hai (Ramanand) Sagar Saab kuch aur banate, aur aacha banate (Had there been this technology, then maybe Ramanand Sagar would have made something else, something better). I do believe that even though we have evolved in VFX, the visual feat Sagar Saab has achieved, will be difficult to repeat it.”
“Phele sab manual kaam hota tha, aaj sab presets hai (Earlier it was all manual, now it’s all presets) and they stick to that. Woh effort hi nahi karna chahte (They don’t want to make any effort). Even though we used green screen and blue screen, we used to look after each and every detail, and we put in the same amount of hard work. The sequence where Hanuman ji carried Ram and Laxman on his shoulder, it took us 4 days to shoot that particular shot. Such was the detailing,” Lahiri added.
Adipurush, a T Series and Retrophiles production features Prabhas essaying the role of Ram, Sunny Singh portraying Lakshman and Kriti Sanon taking the female lead in the role of Sita. While Saif Ali Khan will be seen playing the antagonist, Raavan. The film is set to be launched on 12 January, next year. The film will be available in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada languages.
After the teaser launch of the upcoming movie Adipurush, it received a mixed reaction from the masses. Out of which, some commented on the degrading quality of VFX and CGI used in the film.
