Dream Project

V.C. Guganathan has been in the movie business for a long time, and now he is worried about his legacy. Since the easiest way to achieve lasting fame is by making your dream movie, Guganathan will soon direct a movie called Ithu MGR Illam (“This is the house of MGR”). And like we stated earlier, this movie will be Guganathan’s Dream Project.

(If you are one of those non-Tamil readers that reads this blog, the late MGR was an actor-turned-politician who ruled Tamil Nadu for a long time. And, dude, can you email Manoj and let him know where he can find hot pictures of hindi movie actresses?)

Here’s what Guganathan has to say about his movie:

One day MGR appeared in my dream, woke me up, and asked me if I had forgotten him.

The next day, I went to the MGR memorial and started meditating, when I had another dream. This time, I dreamt of Rajkiran sitting on the MGR memorial.

Naturally, I realized that the best lead man for my upcoming movie would be Rajkiran. And so I headed to Rajkiran’s house after a couple of days.

Rajkiran welcomed me in, and told me he knew I would come.

“How?,” I asked.

“Why, MGR appeared in my dream and told me you’d come,” he said.

Hmm. We have no doubts at all that the movie will establish Guganathan’s legacy as one of the top directors in the world. In his dreams, of course. And maybe even Rajkiran’s.

[Link to original story, in Tamil]

7 Responses :


  1. 1 . on 10 Sep 2006 at 2:39 am michael

    what a story. but easy business i everything you need to know and do was the things you dreamed ;)

  2. 2 . on 11 Sep 2006 at 4:58 am bart

    You know what.. Now MGR will come in the dreams of those patrons who will be invited to watch the movie and strictly only those invited shall go. We have heard of “word-of-mouth” influence on a movie, for this movie it shall be “word-of-dreams”..

  3. 3 . on 12 Sep 2006 at 3:48 am BNB

    Idhulla wikipedia link vera ? Thangaladaa Saameeee

  4. 4 . on 12 Sep 2006 at 4:55 pm Karthik

    BNB, Wow. Isn’t is surprising MGR has a Wikipedia link? And, isn’t is surprising it is so easy to dig up? Damn, double wow that ;)

  5. 5 . on 21 Sep 2006 at 1:52 am The Piker

    This is about your previous post. Im sure you wouldn’t believe me. I knew Mamta Mohandas (she was my one year junior in school) when I was in Bahrain. She sings better than average, and she’s better looking off-screen. I knew her and her parents pretty well, though I lost touch after I came to India for my undergrad *sigh*. Anyways the point is that she is classically trained, and sings pretty well.

  6. 6 . on 21 Sep 2006 at 11:22 am Manoj

    No, the point is, Piker, you are ruing the fact that you missed out on her while actually indulging in some name-dropping. I mean, you knew her parents dude…that`s like one cheesy line (Aunty, kidilam eriseri) away from a son-in-law status. :)
    But it`s all cool. If we as much knew Mamta lived in the same area code, we`d be spamming everyone with `I know Mamta` emails and printing our `Mamta wants me` T-shirts.
    Keep the faith, man!

  1. 6 . on 10 Sep 2006 at 2:42 am Bollywoodblog » Regisseure

    [...] haben bisweilen auch ziemlich einen an der Waffel, wie uns Silverscreen erzählen kann. Ein angebliches Traumprojekt von V.C. Guganathan wird angeblich von verschiedenen Träumen gesteuert, die der gute hat. [...]

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