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From medicine to script doctoring

February 12, 2007 17:29 IST

Dr Rajasekhar is a happy man. His latest film, Evadaithe Naakenti was appreciated by the censor board.

Known for doing remakes, Dr Rajasekhar wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the new film with his wife Jeevitha, Mohan and Swami. His wife also co-directed the film along with V Samudra.

Basking in the afterglow of the censor board's praise for the film, the filmmaker revealed more about the film, his social work and medicine during an interview with Radhik Rajamani at his residence. Excerpts:

Evadaithe Naakenti is based on the Malayalam film Lion. Did you write the screenplay?

I know what people expect from me. Producers are not expanding the canvas and they are coming up with similar subjects made on low budgets. The public is interested in seeing films in the genre of (his earlier films) Ankusham, Aagraham and Magaadu. The people are disappointed with the previous films.

So I wrote the story (it was changed quite a bit), screenplay and dialogues. My wife Jeevitha and two youngsters Mohan and Swami helped give the script a shape. In fact after the