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This is an archive article published on May 21, 2024
Raveena Tandon says Hindi films needed 200 crew members when south industry did the same work with 9 people: ‘Why do you need so many people?’
Raveena Tandon spoke about working with a south film crew in Taqdeerwala and how they managed an entire shoot in Mauritius with just 9 people.
Raveena Tandon said that south industry managed more efficiently in limited sources. (Photo: RaveenaTandon/Instagram)
Raveena Tandon, who is primarily known as a Hindi film actor, has worked in many south films throughout her career. In a recent interview, Raveena recalled working in the 1995 film Taqdeerwala, bankrolled by Hyderabad-based production house Suresh Productions, and said that the budget constraints in the south led them to be more efficient with their resources, which wasn’t necessarily the case with Hindi cinema.
In a chat with YouTube channel Rajshri Unplugged, Raveena said that for Taqdeerwala, she and co-star Venkatesh were supposed to shoot for five songs in Mauritius and to shoot those songs, they only went with a crew of 9 people, which she found to be quite shocking. “We shot five songs in Mauritius with a crew of only 9 people, no light men, no generators, no lights, nothing. They shot the songs with two baby lights and only reflectors, the ones with the silver foil. That’s how all the songs were shot and you look at the quality of those songs,” the actor recalled
Raveena Tandon also remembered that these songs were shot by cinematographer K Ravindra Babu. ‘I can never forget that,” she shared. Taqdeerwala was the remake of the Telugu film Yamaleela, which was directed by K Murali Mohana Rao.
Raveena then recalled that when she would shoot for Hindi films, the international outdoors had a crew of almost 200 people, which made her question why so many people were needed for the same work that could be done by just 9 people. “When I would shoot in Mumbai and we would go for outdoors from here, to Switzerland or some other place, 200 people would go along. I used to say why do you need so many people when we can do all of this work with 10 people?” she recalled.
Raveena Tandon said that crews from the south “used to work so effortlessly and effectively on low budget and doing great work”. In 2022, Raveena appeared in the Kannada film KGF: Chapter 2. The third installment of the film franchise was announced at the time but more updates on that are still awaited.
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