‘No reference point’: Nag Ashwin reveals hardships behind Rs 22 cr film Sing Geetham | Telugu News
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao is set to release his 61st film, Sing Geetham, at the age of 94. The film is produced by Kalki 2898 AD director Nag Ashwin under the Vyjayanthi Movies and Swapna Cinema banners. In an interview with SCREEN, Ashwin spoke with unusual candour about the film’s origins, its challenges, and why he believes it is unlike anything Indian cinema has seen before. It is a story about the sheer difficulty of doing something nobody has done before, and the people who decided to do it anyway. Before the logistics, before the health complications, before any of the production challenges, there was the fundamental question of what Sing Geetham even was and how to make it work. Sing Geetham is a musical fantasy in which every character in the story communicates entirely through song. Not a film with songs inserted between scenes, but one where singing is the language itself. Nag Ashwin says there was genuinely no reference point for it. “We don’t have a reference idea for this film because there is …
