Mid-stream March Masala

People end up asking you what the philosophy behind a concept is. Some question the logic behind each scene. Some end up judging, comparing, demeaning and may even call it bogus and hollow.

Every dish needs a particular culinary, a particular crate and a particular time to be served. In spite of serving it at the right time one may be serving it to the wrong people. (Sometimes even the wrong cook )

‘Stories from Mumbai’ is one such dish that is currently being made. Its intended to be a mid-stream masala short film made as a part of my IDC project.

After severe wrestling with money issues, theshort indie film is 90% complete.

the pre pro and final

Me and ravi Discussing the shot division as Vinit clicks

                                          

Nitin and Divya Alok as characters

Some scenes, i ended up playing a character due to integrity issues

the long auto drives after renting out equipments

Radhakrishna Bar before it was demolished

I would like to thank Jithin Stalin for stepping into the shoes of the producer and funding half the film. The movie is on the edit table.

We got permission to shoot inside Radhakrishna Bar oppiste IIT, however two days later the bar was demolished by BMTC road widening. It will be a part of me now.

Grey people P3

A guitarist without a song, two horny drunkards, a corpse or still alive and a gangster and his mistress crosses each others path.

My P3 project is the story from Mumbai which talks of talkers. It talks of grey people. People who are good and bad or neither.

Its a live action based on 4 stories. Pre- Production and recce has already started. Will start shoot next week. Some sketches and works and story boards.

a collage of pre production

final color decided before shoot

some sketches

a page from the storyboard

Weak

I have always been sick ever since I could remember. The sickness had glorified nomelnclatures in the later stages however these had given e enough relapses to sketch and lie around all day thinking.

Corel Painter - Pen -

One such sketch done with the latest feverish swing.

Guns

Does that mean I can dodge bullets ?

Exhasuted before detailing, impatience 

Freefall

Freefall , freelance, Freak's fantasies

Free fall

fantasies

freelance 

freak

Dodge this

I have got into the bad habit of scribbling while watching a film. Morning I got one of them scribbles and painted on it all because I was lazy to do something productive.

I like it

Oviedo----- bangalore

"Taking a detour at 2 A.M. from the main road, after having food @ Empire, since a police jeep was parked on the main road. Even Kiron didnt know the way to his place through the small by-lanes and ultimately asked way from a gay couple in a car ...Kiron trying to show us all the chicks staying around Oviedo ... And of course,the amazing wall posters in Oviedo"                      Kiran Kumar

            

"The thing about Oviedo is in the relief the journey to that place gives my mind and the pride of being among friends whose lives and existence matter...."                        Dheerej 

"OVIEDO is a fantasy... but then suddenly the characters and events which till that very moment existed only in the realm of a fantasy unfolds to reality in front of your bare eyes.... and those characters, live drink and laugh together with u in complete harmony... which eventually brings u to, in a world of which u had no prior knowledge.. and leaves permanent scars in ur memory;  u always remember oviedo as place where some1 drew a very thin line between conventional ideas of fantasy and reality....Our very on wonderland "                                                                                                                                                     Anoop 

"Retrospection is tough decision making. 

Turning back to reminisce, is to involuntarily decide which of those shells you had mustered while on that casual stroll through the beach are to be kept and which are not.I turn back to run my fingers through the contrastingly shaded strands of memories, memories of times, good and bad.Conversations, food, love, space,luxury,hunger,table fan, weed ,lust,moments of self discovery, few tight slaps, alchohol, bus tickets to Bombay, a boomerang and a road trip.Yet, the unrelenting, ruthless cynic that i have metamorphosed into, holds myself back from sporadically growing a more poetic, sentimental crust. Cranial static. I really am unable to decipher which half of me is speaking. Memories are conveniently evanescent.If it wasn't most of would scream the wrong persons name during an orgasm".                                                                                                                                                   Kiron

"Oviedo is a state of mind. A place far away from places but right in the middle of them all. A trench of absorbance, an altar of free thinking and a circus of clowns. Its the thin line between stupidity and deep learning. The conversations will go on because Oviedo is no longer an apartment. Its a concept weaving the people who were in it and most importantly the Beowolf who lives in it."                   Krishand

So far, so long,so much and yet so little