With Maasthi Gudi now with the Censor Board, director Nagashekar is busy cutting 10-second teasers. He plans to put them out from time to time before the film’s release on May 12. While the film has seen much interest even before coming to the theatres, the latest buzz is that Maasthi Gudi has a solid hour of computer-generated imagery. According to the director, Maasthi Gudi will be the biggest CG film in Kannada. “We have created a variety of scenes,” he says, “mostly with animals such as tiger, cheetahs and a cobra.”
We hear that the whole CG work in Maasthi Gudi cost the producer ` 2 crore and it was executed by three companies - Phantom and Ria from Chennai, and Unify Media from Bengaluru. All three have been working on this for nearly one-and-a half years. “Half the film’s schedule was taken for the CG work,” says Nagashekar. “I took the help of my brother and the directorial team to get the storyboard done for imagery,” he says, “and made sure we have the frames reproduced using CG. The team took three months to create a mesh for a tiger and I was surprised to learn that they took almost 18 hours to render a reaction scene.”
The film has been compared to Pulimuguran, a suggestion that director Nagashekar brushes off. He says that there are people comparing the movie to Baahubali and drawing similarities to few other international films. “To all of them, I would want to say, please wait for the movie to release,” says Nagashekar. “Comparisons and finding similarities are fine, as long as they don’t call it a copy. I have just done four films and have 25 original stories ready and everything is new... my ideas have not dried up.”