Actor Srinivas Avasarala’s passion for writing and storytelling encouraged him to don the director’s hat for forthcoming Telugu romantic-comedy “Oohalu Gusagusalade”. He says enjoys the storytelling process more than acting.
Talking about his expereince, he said, “I’ve always wished to be a director ever since I started my career as an actor. I enjoy storytelling so much more than acting that I even ghost wrote for two Telugu films. I wanted to control the whole storytelling process. So when I finally found a producer, I decided to become a director. He, however, says that he doesn’t like to discriminate acting from direction “I can’t tell if acting or directing satisfies me the most because at the end of the day you want the audiences to be entertained and it doesn’t matter if you’re an actor or director. May be as a writer-director you’re more responsible because everything on the screen is yours”.
Starring newcomers Naga Shourya and Raashi Khanna, “Oohalu Gusagusalade”, which releases tomorrow, is “based on French play Cyrrano De Bergerac”. He said, “For most romantic comedies, the inspiration comes from this play. My film also has the spirit of a Woody Allen film comedy. I have tried to find a common ground for these two sources of inspiration and made my film based on that”.
