COIMBATORE: Camerman-cum-producer SPS Guhan is back in city to release his Limca Book of Record winning film Sanikkizhamai Sayankaalam 5 Mani at a theatre at Gandhipuram on Friday. This is a first full length film that was shot using a still camera.
Incidentally, Guhan received the award from Limca Book of Records last month in Coimbatore.
Yet another Kovai connection to the film is that the hero Sarath belongs to Singanallur near here, who after completing his engineering at Amrita University joined Wipro in Bengaluru in 2007.
Since he always wanted to make it big in the world of cinema, he logged out of his software job to don the role of a hero pairing with new face like himself.
Guhan, a native of Madurai, told Express that his maiden film Madurai to Theni vazhy Andipatti got him a name in Kollywood circle since his film crew were mainly his associates who had worked with him in ad filmmaking.
"It was my ardent desire to make my film a talk of the town for it's unique feature. Thus, I decided to show some difference in filmmaking by using Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D camera," he said and added that it gave the same result to the regular ones used by cinematographers now.
"Since I admired Kamal Haasan's multifarious talents and ace cameraman P C Sriram's unique skills in taking shots," Guhan said and added that both of them became his inspiration to take to filmdom after completing film technology course from a private institute.
Though he started his career in directing ad films, Guhan decided to go alone in Kollywood after building a with a strong base for himself by learning the nuances in filmmaking, direction and handling camera.
His film Sanikkizhamai Sayankaalam 5 Mani fetched him a recognition from Limca Book of Records for his pioneering effort in picturising a feature film which runs for 210 minutes using High Definition Single Lens Reflector camera. Asked about his next film, Guhan said he is planning to use the same still camera technology for his soon-to-be-launched movie with Sarath as hero.