Saturday, June 13, 2009
Snippets from a wannabe filmmakers mind
Okk...now this is weird its the first time i am posting something publicly...Blog..what an invention?and my mind wanders to another great invention known as camera or what the Lumiere bros called the cinematograph...what a piece of work.I have neva touched a 35mm film camera but just being around it gives you a sense of power of creating your own world of being the creator.Yes you are right i want to be a filmmaker but i am different (yawn--everyone says that). No i swear i am different i don't want to be a steven spielberg or Ridley scott or even Martin Scorsese..then you would say i will take some hindi names like Raj Kapoor..Guru Dutt...Satyajit Ray...Austoush Gowarikar or Farhan Akhtar but no i don't even want to be like them...OK before your mind wanders towards Ramsay bros i don't want to follow any of the big names... I just want to be the creator...the power that camera gives you to act like God...though i am God fearing human i don't think anyone would miss such a chance.I neva realised the power of this tool until i made my first short film...i have to accept it was pathetic but than even Microsoft made many versions before launching Win 95 but once the film was made I realised it this is the thing i wanna pursue as my career (though I hate this word "career" but cant think of anything else)Then I wanted more and I landed a Assistant directors job with my best friends help (mind you resumes don't work in this industry only thing that works is contacts) so I got the job and was on cloud nine...I thought that it should be named as the best job but only before i went for the shoot.AD what a profile...10 days into the schedule and i think its the worst job where you have to do everything and still hear every one's galli. It is a job where u have to manage anything and everything u get frustrated..sick by people's attitude..the work load..u want to runway...u want a break...u miss ur friends...u cant eat properly..but then a ray of hope- when u look at others on the set everyone is so joyfully passionate (except for some lifelong unhappy souls). It looks like we all were small nuts and bolts in a big machine to churn out a fantasy world from our imagination...some worked as grease some were levers..while many other were gears supporting each other to work. Finally this machine will churn out a beautiful product known as movie...i know its shame to call it a product its more like a full grown baby whom u love whatever it does (i.e. flops or wins in box office) i know its getting a bit symbolical but for the final word on the experience as AD i think film making is all about putting this machinery together and pressing the start button...it all depends on how u join all this tools with experience, creativity and hard work...till then let me start my work on making this marvellous machine and creating my own baby
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Hi....
ReplyDeleteSujay keep it up....
Changli survaat aahe...
jya maturity ne tu lihitoes....kharach bara vattay.....
My Regards....
SUBODH
hey,
ReplyDeletei remember we used to discuss in college abt our careers and used to say u wanted to be an IAS officer..film-making is a whole lotta better than that...and yes u write really well..so keep going...
btw.. i write as well.. http://shivchakra.blogspot.com/
hey sujay a really good effort......gud luck.....
ReplyDeletei liked the blog....its good...:)
ReplyDeleterather than anything else i like the way u stick to the subject...and dnt worry my dear...aj tula ridley scott kinwa itar kuni naselahi banaycha...but believe me some tym later u will be very happy to be sujay hande...just that and only that:)
Hey Sujay,
ReplyDeletegood work, i felt that you have chosen exact words to express yourself fully, also thoughts are very clear...
Keep writing!!!
i want to see the short film , do you know neel made one as well
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