Director K.K. Rajeev is gripping his fingers crossed as his initial underline film reaches theatres this Friday.

K.K.Rajeev has several credits to his name. He has worked with some of a biggest names in a Malayalam film attention and has an enviable fibre of hits on a tiny screen. That is since his entrance into braid city is energetically awaited by viewers and attention watchers.

Rajeev admits that a vigour is measureless as his entrance film ‘Njaanum Ente Familyum’ reaches theatres this Friday. “People could brand with a situations and characters in my serials. My cinema too is a cut of genuine life,” adds Rajeev.

“I was ostensible to make my entrance with a Mammootty-film. But that didn’t work. we couldn’t finish a story on time and Mammookka had given his dates for other films,” Rajeev explains.

He was bending to a universe of play and films even as a immature child (he was selected Best Actor during a Kerala University Youth Festival). His loyalty with scenarist-director Renji Panicker valid a branch point. “He used to work with ‘Suruma,’ India’s second (first was ‘Leher’) and Malayalam’s initial video magazine, run by Mammootty. Mammookka had introduced a judgment here. It had a preview of a film, with on-location reports and bytes from a expel and crew. The essence were edited in Chennai and cassettes were sole to video libraries, generally those abroad. This knowledge brought me tighten to a film attention and opposite aspects of filmmaking,” Rajeev recalls.

He has had a prolonged and cultivatable organisation with Doordarshan, by documentaries (a special one being ‘Swapnagalude Rajakumaran,’ a documentary on Padmarajan that was a auteur’s final interview), programmes such as ‘Chitrageetham’ and ‘Smrithilayam’ (he wrote a scripts) and, of course, serials.

‘Alapanam’ was his initial work. “I remember Dileep as a sequence actor. Another noted knowledge was my army as an actor in ‘Mohangal’ destined by Rajasenan. It had Parvathy in a lead,” Rajeev recollects.

Serial success

His serials have worked because, “I safeguard that a tract is convincing, with no exaggerations or gimmicks. Dialogues, costumes and make-up aren’t shrill during all.”

His latest work, ‘Kathayile Rajakumari,’ is aired on Mazhavil Manorama.

He is credited with many casting coups on radio – Jayabharathi and Thilakan played a lead in ‘Peythoziyathe’ (on Surya TV).

“It also had Mallika Sukumaran, who was confronting a camera for a initial time after Sukumaran’s death,” he points out. Rajeev expel Priya Raman and Devan in ‘Porutham’ and Sreevidya and Ratheesh (“upon Mammootty’s suggestion”) in ‘Venalmazha.’

It was Mammootty who gave him a “crazy idea” of directing a daily soap! “I was shocked! ‘Won’t we go insane sharpened a daily serial?’ we thought. But he was certain that daily serials would order a roost and he wasn’t wrong.”

However, he does adore brief serials such as ‘Avicharitham’ (Asianet).

“Channels mostly pressurise a directors to boost a series of episodes for TRP ratings. Some serials never seem to end! Nowadays, a executive is judged according to a series of episodes he can plate out! Thus peculiarity suffers. There was a time when it took dual days to fire an episode. Nowadays, as many as 4 episodes are shot in a day,” he says.

On a uninformed note

An indisciplined lifestyle has cost him dear, though that is all in a past, he says. “Working but a mangle influenced my health. In fact, that had behind my film debut. A healthy lifestyle – eating and sleeping on time – can do wonders to your creativity,” says Rajeev, a revolutionary fan of Mani Ratnam’s cinema and K.G. George’s craft.

Another cause that boosts his creativity, as always, is his passion for travelling and driving.

“My discussions and essay occur during my highway trips. It is formidable to make me write anything while sitting in a room,” he says.

Surprisingly, he finds some-more leisure in cinema.

“Now a executive has reduction impasse in serials, we don’t even see a final product before it goes on air. But in cinema, a executive has sum involvement,” he says.

He is there to stay for long, Rajeev says, and signs off with his comments on a supposed predicament in a film industry: “Malayalam filmmakers need to have faith in themselves; a convincing story is adequate to move assembly to theatres. Also, record should never go overboard…”

‘Njaanum Ente Familyum’

The film stars Jayaram, Mamta, Manoj K.Jayan, Mythili and Jagathy Sreekumar. “It is a family play created by Cheriyan Kalpakavadi. The story is set in a medical background, with many of a categorical characters essaying a purpose of doctors. The strife between medical ethics and family ethics forms a crux of a movie,” says Rajeev.

King of soaps

‘Peythozhiyathe’

‘Porutham’

‘Venalmazha’

‘Swapnam’

‘Orma’

‘Amma Manassu’

‘Kudumbayogam’