Ennu Ninte Moideen is a film not only noted for its screenplay, director or for the performance of the artists in it. But also noted for its cinematography, sound design, music and many other technical perfections as well. Among all super technical perfections in the film one thing clearly stands out from the rest and that is the fantabulous visuals given to us by the cameraman Jomon T John.
Each frame of the film gave us something very unique in its color tone, its feel etc and the success of the film owes much to the fabulous work of Jomon T John. But the cameraman is shattered after watching his work in one of our theater and Jomon T John has really lashed out in an interview with Manorama online against the lack of projection facilities in our theaters and also the attitude of our theaters about the poor quality of their projection system.
Jomon T John said that in a particular scene in the film in which it shows a temple festival they had used a golden colour filter while doing the digital intermediate. It is done in such a way that the skin tone of the actress is also have to look golden. But when he saw it in the theater in Ernakulam city he felt a lot of pain and felt shattered as the frame which they intended to look in a golden color looks pale white on the screen. Jomon says that it is due to the ages old and bad projection facility in the theaters. They don’t even care to replace a filter bulb in their projection system after taking 100 or 150 rupees from the audience as the ticket charge.
In the case of sound system as well same is the situation. In Bollywood films they gave months to colour grading alone for a film. We are also giving great importance to make it technically perfect. But all our effort in the technical side is spoiled by these kind of poor quality projection system in our theaters and that is killing the standard of our cinema.
