Maybe,
Aayirathil
Oruvan
did
not
appealed
to
the
sensibilities
of
certain
audience,
but
that
doesn"t
lessen
the
skills
of
technicians,
who
strived
to
bring
extraordinary
outputs
on
the
screen.
If
it
was
G.V.
Prakash
and
cinematographer
Ramji
astounding
us
with
their
brilliant
masterpieces,
here"s
yet
another
technician,
who
happens
to
be
the
biggest
backbone
and
he"s
none
other
than
art
director
Santhanam.
Having
mentored
nearly
500
set
decorators,
it
nearly
took
300
days
to
put
up
with
the
grandiloquent
sets
of
Chola
Dynasty"s
present
lineage.
Says
art
director
Santhanam,
“Though
it
was
a
backbreaking
task,
we
are
interested
in
bringing
out
best
sets
as
it
exposed
the
potentials
of
Selvaraghavan
and
goodwill
of
producer
Ravendran
on
spending
so
much
cost
on
sets.
We
created
the
Chola
cave
regions
in
40
days.
When
Kamal
Haasan
sir
was
busy
with
his
preproduction
works
of
Marmayogi,
he
visited
the
sets
along
with
Hong
Kong
based
art
directors
and
technicians.
When
they
got
to
know
that
these
grand
sets
were
created
within
40
days,
they
openly
confessed
that
it
would
have
taken
at
least
3
months
for
them
to
accomplish
such
a
difficult
task…."
It"s
really
marvelous
to
witness
such
eminent
personalities
taking
their
vision
forward.
And
if
producers
can
promote
their
films
with
such
factors,
our
Tamil
films
are
sure
to
reach
across
the
farthest
ends
of
globe.