My Autograph Full Film
Verbena Reynoso
Autograph is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Cheran. The film's soundtrack is composed by Bharadwaj. Cheran also plays the lead role in his film for the first time, and other cast members include Gopika, Sneha, Mallika and Kaniha.
This is both Gopika's and Mallika's debut film in Tamil cinema. The film was released in India in February 2004, and was screened at the Lyon Asian Film Festival in France and at the Montreal World Film Festival in Canada. Upon release, the filmwas met with critical acclaim and commercial success. Although a sequel to the film titled Autograph 2 was announced, it never materialised.[1] The film was remade in Telugu as Naa Autograph, Kannada as My Autograph and Bengali as Amar Aponjon.
The film begins with Senthil Kumar (Cheran) who runs an advertising agency, boarding a train on a journey to invite his friends and family for his forthcoming wedding. Along the way, he encounters various individuals from his past, who bring back memories of three women that have influenced his love life. During the journey, he reminisces his teenage days. The happenings in the school, his tussle with his friends and his first love with his classmate Kamala (Mallika) are all pictured with fun and drama. However, her father married her off early before her 11th grade. He meets Kamala 14 years later, and she is now a mother of three children, and a wife of a farmer. Senthil reaches the village and invites all including Kamala, who promises to come to the wedding.
Then, he goes to Kerala, where he had his college education. His major crush at that time was Lathika (Gopika), a Malayali girl from Chalakudy, with whom he falls in love, but later, the affair proves to be short-lived as her parents marry her off to her cousin Madhavan after knowing about her love affair with Senthil. On reaching Chalakudy to invite her, Senthil is slightly disturbed to see her as a widow living with her grandmother for the past 12 years. He attempts to rekindle his love for her, but she corrects him.
In the end, Senthil marries the girl of his parents choice, Thenmozhi (Kanika). All the three girls who were a part in his life, along with his school and college friends attend his wedding. Also, this sets a very jovial ending to the story.
Produced by Roja Combines, Cheran first cast Prabhu Deva in the lead role during October 2000, but the actor and producers later left the project.[2][3][4] In December 2000, Cheran announced that he would produce the film himself and that actor Vijay would portray the lead role in the project. However, Vijay later opted out as a result of scheduling problems.[5][6] Arvind Swami revealed that he was offered the main role, but he declined the role because he was retired from cinema in that time period.[7] Cheran later approached Vikram, but he did not want to do a romantic film after the success of his action film Gemini (2002), resulting in Cheran, himself, portraying the role.[8]
Cheran said that the film was partly autobiographical.[9] Four different cinematographers worked on the film; Ravi Varman had shot the school episode in Senthil's early life with a 35 mm lens for which he used light angle,[10] Vijay Milton shot the Kerala scenes, Dwaraknath shot the Chennai episode with a steady cam, and Shanky Mahendran shot the "'live' part" of the film when the camera uses the point of view of Senthil's character.[9]
Autograph is a 2010 Indian Bengali drama film by debutant director Srijit Mukherji. The movie is a tribute to Satyajit Ray's 1966 film Nayak and yesteryear Bengali actor Uttam Kumar, who portrayed the title role in the film.[1] This was the first collaboration between Srijit Mukherjee and Prosenjit Chatterjee. The movie is being remade in Malayalam.[2]
The film starts with a proposal of remaking Satyajit Ray's famous Nayak by a debutant director and storywriter Shuvobrata to famous Bengali actor Arun Chatterjee. Arun approves Shuvobrata's proposal and agrees to finance the project. Shuvobrata requests his live-in girlfriend Srinandita or Shrin to act opposite Arun. In the meantime, Arun and Shrin become close friends and Arun tells her about various incident from his past in an emotionally triggered condition. The exchange is videotaped accidentally and Shuvobrata on discovering it leaks it to the press, without Srinandita's consent, as a publicity stunt for the film. Srinandita leaves Shuvobrata on learning of this indiscretion. Arun, furious about the leak, bars the film from being released. Arun later learns that Shrin had no role in the leak and apologizes to her. The movie ends with Shrin leaving a note and a phone number for Arun at a roadside dhaba where they had met earlier.
The music of the film is composed by Debojyoti Mishra and Anupam Roy. The lyrics have been penned by Anupam Roy, Srijato and Srijit Mukherji. The song Aamake Aamar Moto Thakte Dao turned out to be a popular amongst the Bengali audience. Chal Rastay, Uthche Jege Sokalgulo and Beche Thakar Gaan also received wide critical acclaim.
The film premiered internationally at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival on 17 October 2010.[1] The movie was showcased in New York City at the MIAAC (Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council) film festival, 2010 where it won a nomination for Prosenjit Chatterjee for the Best Actor award. It was also an official selection at the Glasgow International Film Festival and London Indian Film Festival in 2011. It was also showcased at the Kala Ghoda Film Festival in Mumbai in 2012 and the Darpan Film Festival in Singapore.
I just worked out that it could cost me about 150 for all the main characters from DS9 to sign something. It would be really nice but unless I want to sell it it is just an autograph where as if I have photos I get a pic of me with someone famous.
I tend to go for a photo over an autograph - it's something that's just a bit more personal. If I can afford it and have the time, I'll do both. The only exception is if I have a multi-signed item, in which case I'd go for the autograph rather than a photoshoot.
But also - photos can be bought in advance! I'm quite bad with money if I'm honest, so I can buy them a month (or a few months) before, and then just forget that I'd spent my money! With autographs you pay for them on the day, so it has to come out of my budget - and by the time I've been round the stalls, I often don't have much left!!
I've always preferred an autograph and for many years just did that, with the occasional over the desk photo, but that was mostly for budgetary reasons. Last few years I've been enjoying photos as well although it does shove the costs up. But, even though they have me in, I love some of my photos and it's been kinda surreal getting that close some actors and actresses that you've been watching for years. I have cut down a lot this time and so far only have about 6 booked. I only choose people that are important to the things I'm interested in.
Currently my autograph costs will be nearly 400 if I go for all of them but I'm going to revise that as much as I can. I've spent a lot more in the past but need to try and cut down a bit. As I get the photos in advance, they're kinda paid off and I don't think about the cost of those too much.
The first two times I went, I got photographs (one each year). While it was nice to meet the people and to have the photo, it's an extremely stressful experience. The queuing is a complete mesm, photo development is usually delayed and collecting them is a massive pain. This year I'm planning to get some autographs instead as I don't want the hassle.
Wow, I feel completely the opposite - I think the photoshoots are much easier than the autos. With photos, you already have your ticket, you just go to the photo area at the right time, join the queue, and pick up your photo straight away! With autographs you have to get there early to get a VT, then keep checking back until your number is called, and THEN join the queue. And unless you're happy with the prints they have at the table you have to make sure you've got something for them to sign. I guess it just depends what you're more comfortable with.
I consider myself a collector (even though I collect for myself and I prefer personalized autographs), so when I have to choose, I usually go for an autograph. During the last two LFCCs I always did more auographs than photoshoots. I tend to choose only the most important people for me to do a photoshoot with. Even though it is me in the photo with them, the encounter is very short, you only have time to say hi and bye, while when getting the autograph you can actually have a brief chat with the person and even an over the desk photo.
I think I had an extremely bad luck last year. I had booked a ticket for a photoshoot with Jewel Staite. However, the time that was later announced was before I could get there. I was able to pay a bit more to exchange it for a photoshoot with Adam Baldwin. I waited in the extremely disorganised queue and it seemed that there was going to be a delay - however the length of the relay and reason wasn't very well communicated (there was virtually no communication) and the photoshoot finally started over an hour after it was supposed to. Then, because of the delay, the photo would not be ready for collection that day, so I had to give them my details and pay a fee to have it posted to me. So a week and a bit later, I got a photo with washed-out colours in the post (apparently the colour problem affected most of the Adam Baldwin photos).
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