A big venture for advocate turned producer now occasional actor too TP Siddaraju (when he was speaking to media persons he got a call from Raghavendra Rajakumar office for the role of commissioner in Nadodigal Kannada version in which his son is also playing the important role with Puneeth Rajakumar, Srinagara Kitty and Radhika Pandit in the lead) is very optimistic about the film ‘Yaksha’ reaching the public.

The stunning factor of Nana Patekar 27 minutes is in the second half. He has dubbed the voice and came with the bound volume of his portions given at the first meet on the sets. When minute changes were made he used to say this was not in the original given to me. Even for the length Nanaji said be truthful to the cinema and do not hesitate to chop off Siddaraju remembers.

From an earning of Rs.280 per month I have come to the stage of this producer of ‘Yaksha’ is all what god wanted. I worked in Mysore-Mangalore Lorry office for three months and then I joined Janata Bazaar as salesman. This is where I worked for 13 years. When I did ‘Dhuniya’ I even sold my ancestors properties. From the profits I got it released but further some more litigation came up for land purchase disclosed Siddaraju who is a professional advocate today.

I had to take loan of Rs. 1 crore for making this film. It is not a surprise. As the media expect so many crores have not come from ‘Dhuniya’. But when I went with Bashaji and told him that Nana Patekar is acting in ‘Yaksha’ he laughed at us and asked for the telephone number of Nana Patekar. When we have furnished he cross checked with the number he has and came to a conclusion. The same Bashaji is today helped us in getting Narthaki theatre as the main theatre for ‘Yaksha’ release is no ordinary help.

I have not sold the television right for Rs.85 lakhs to Udaya TV when they came to me because of one person Nana Patekar. I told them nothing has yet worked out and after the shoot he will decide. But the offer for Rs.1 crore and 2 lakhs came from Zee Kannada which I accepted stated Siddaraju.

Being a father of well known actor Yogish there was good earning too. Then where was the need for taking loan? All things heard in the industry as for as yogish remuneration is wrong. For a film like Punda I was surprised when the producer Kuppuswamy said Rs.54 lakhs was given. It was agree for 18 lakhs and we signed it for Rs.6 lakhs. How come three times is inflated in the market is the worry of Siddaraju.

On the call sheet I still have 90 percent of control. My sons might have made small mistakes but they have told sorry to me. I hear the story and decide on Yogish films. It is still continuing.

‘Yaksha’ is two hours and 23 minutes and it has good contents and censor has given ‘A’ certificate for it. The hard hitting dialogues were asked to prune. But we did not agree. They asked to take ‘A’ certificate.