The director candidly talks about his earlier stints in the film industry before deciding to turn to writing and direction. “After quitting my job, I didn’t know where to go. But I had interest in cinema, so I joined the junior artist association.” Eashvar further recalls his junior artist days in a light-hearted manner. “However, you wouldn’t get calls every day. And even if you did, I was often standing in the last row. Nobody would believe it if I were to play a rowdy or a side henchman,” he adds with a chuckle.
It was later that, while helping his friends during their short filmmaking stints, he gradually learnt the craft of scriptwriting. Eashvar had other writing plans on his mind as well, such as a book on human psychology, before he decided to focus on screenplay writing, gradually moving in that direction. “I had a lot of free time then, you see,” he laughs.
Produced by Old Town Pictures and Padmaja Films, Zebra is slated to release in multiple language versions simultaneously. The film’s primary cast, too, boasts of prominent names from across the South Indian industries, like Sathyaraj, Daali Dhananjaya, Satyadev, Satya, and Priya Bhavani Shankar. Talking about these diverse casting choices, Eashvar states, “Satyadev and I met in Hyderabad, and he agreed to do the film within a one-hour script narration. However, to attain a certain production value for my film, I needed a certain budget. We wanted to expand into the Kannada market, so we brought Daali Dhananjaya on board. My producers gave me the option of casting Sathyaraj, and he agreed. Similarly, Priya Bhavani incidentally helped take the film to the Tamil audience. These casting choices from various industries gave that much-needed market support.”
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