Hey everybody...its US, back to blogging. Me and Sir Willy.
Its been TWO long years at our last shot on education (hopefully). It has not been without events. No...not close. With sir Wingfoot, life is always an adventure, aye!
We've been thinking, rolling over on bed and under as to what to begin with. We believe that our creativity has quiet lost its gleam, blame the education ‘course. Leaves us no space for original thinking, except after seeing the question papers! But that is that, and lets not get drawn into that anymore.
What these two years of hostel life has brought us, is a sort of seriousness to story writing. Those days when Sir Wingfoot’s mind be as sharp as his blade, a quill and a parchment is all we used, to weave worlds out of nothing. Here Sir Willy interrupts saying, even today his highness’ brain is as sharp as his blade, only that the blade is blunt *funny*
Anyway, living with other people at his kingdom, Sir Willy has learnt that a greater level of satisfaction can be derived by making his followers PEEK into his highness’ brain and see the stories unfold. He whispers to me one day, ”Why not make a movie of every story written?” Easy at it seems, the most difficult job ever imagined by his majesty is MAKING-A-MOVIE!
The Video above is our first fling with movie making. The story of this short movie has been adapted from an unusual source of “Forwarded E-Mails”. We tried to keep the suspense of the story intact, while trying to get an emotion involved into the scenes. We, Sir Wingfoot and I, handled screenplay, trying to add and delete characters, events, deciding on locations, casting,acting as the younger bro and also trying to voice-over for the char that i play. We had to write the story more than a few times, then calling the directors duo for the discussion, always conflicting on to which direction the story must move. We had an entirely different idea as to from whose angle the story rolls, till we had shot the whole movie. AFTER the shooting of about a month, we had to settle for an entirely different movie in hand.
Anyway, it is general belief among all of us related with this movie and those among the audience is, that the movie is a GOOD first try. A lot of people have to be thanked for the support and their efforts during this period.
Bippo , for being very generous with his CAM & COMMENTS. Editing has been flawless.
Raka , for everything he has been throughout the movie, for the enthu that he brought in, for all the ideas he came up with.
Sayan, the suicide bro, for attempting suicide a million times throughout the month. Unfortunately, for all his stunts hanging upside down, none made it to the final cut. Kudos for the animation!
Detective Tao, for getting through with the costume changes, for not giving up in between, for accepting to shower before shots ^ ^ for trying to walk straight and for not demanding a dance in the movie.
Detective Ben, now Lieutenant Ben (no, not for the next movie, its real life folks!). For his great voice as the detective, for being there when needed, for accepting to act even though he had other movie offers pouring in ;)
Pandey Bhai Saab, Shilpi for accepting roles of being my dad n mum with no hesitation and for playing the role to perfection.
Aswini (Construction worker), also the music supervisor…for helping us get the people when we needed.
Haati Ravi (Watchman) for his splendid acting, and for holding his breath during shooting so he could fit into the watchman costume * *
Guru (Neighbor), for the easy shot, Vivian (Dhobi) for bearing with us, shakti for his bike, Dr.Thamarai Selvan for his office, the students of our Department of Management Studies at NIT and everybody else I’m missing out on for their encouragement…
PEACE be with you!
In the dark wet hole 
