T’town to soon have a flick, inspired by Babe, pig in the city

Ravi Babu, known for making movies that are not exactly run-of-the mill, like Allari, Anasuya, Avunu,and Nachavule and so on, is all set to make a film starring, umm, a piglet! Talking to an English Daily, he said, “Yes, the piglet is the hero of my new film. Shooting is over and it’s now in post-production. The thought just came to me and I immediately wanted to try it. I developed it into a story, and since it is not possible to make a story with only a piglet, I added a few human characters too. After I completed my script, I went through all films made around pigs. The Hollywood film Babe was a big hit but it had many other animals too,” he says.

The makers of the original Hollwyood flick had reared and trained around 150 piglets and used animation to perfection. Howver, talking about how he is working the whole thing out according to the resources, Ravi Babu said, “Such a high budget would not work for us, so I decided to do a research on the subject. “I contacted a person who runs a farm and asked him to supply a piglet. It’s very expensive to maintain pure breed pigs. But I am an animal lover, so it wasn’t a problem for me. It was a big challenge. I had to make it believable, which was the hard part,” he says. The director has already narrated the story to Suresh Babu who first laughed at him but was convinced later.