Harsh Gowda

Harsh Gowda is a Kannada producer and director. He began his career with the movie Tora Tora Click to look into! >> Read More... which released on December 22, 2017. Before the film got released, the team of the film called for contestants which called for budding poster designer, video editor, and thinkers for which they gave a link and the successful winner would get a ticket for the first show.

Touted to be first travel cinema, the film had many new actors in the movie. The film was promoted even at the state level Karate championship contest. There is no doubt that his engagement with fans helped to build awareness for his movie ‘Tora Tora’.

Recently, the director has claimed that he considered the title ‘Tora Tora’ based on the game, and hence the story travels in two opposite directions. Harsh Gowda is a fan of ‘science fiction’ films. The film was produced under ‘Mayavi productions’ and got U/A certificate and the director is happy that the film received a huge response after the trailer got released.

‘Tora Tora’ is Harsh Gowda’s debut movie and he chose the concept of Sci-fi films only to entertain the masses. His concept was to explore the travel concept in a Kannada movie which is unheard of. To make it a mass entertainer, he has mixed up comedy and adventure into the plot. The director chose new faces for the movie, but they all had theatre backgrounds, and hence acting came to them all easily.

As a cine buff, one would understand that the director of photography MS Kiran Kumar believed in capturing the moment by seeing the performance of the actors. In this movie, visual imagery strikes the mind more than the characters too sometimes. One wished he maintained that cinematography as art in every movie. All kudos goes to the director.

To make a travel film, an honest and authentic pitch is critical. Also, one has to convince the people that your films need to be made as a drama film and then build a unique concept. Sometimes a sci-fi travel film can even be patronized by kids or youth’s stuff, this genre finds to look over the parochialism of most practical drama to look other worlds and existences.

Sci-fi travel movies can be a confessing cacophony of temporal mishaps and ruptures of the space-time continuum.

The screenplay of Tora Tora was a very difficult task as it had to have a fantasy subject and then the story has to be within the realm of all possibilities of science. For Sandalwood buffs, the camera work, editing, BG score of this movie is a whiff of fresh air.