Another rehersal

WE had another rehearsal today. Vinod is picking up really fast. Kaviraj has gone to his native place :( :) . Today Saraswati got involved too which is good.

One important thing, we had a new guy , Rahul who came to watch the rehearsal. He is interested in the technical part of movie making and said he will start working on the same. We need to now watch a few shootings to understand the technicalities involved in movie making.

We need to get the two ladies desperately for us to proceed with the other scenes now. I have asked a friend to see if she can play the role of the lead female character - somehow she has not yet read the script to confirm on the same.

I am also thinking on other ideas where we can do more projects with the nearby slums too .

In search of the right place !

After casting our votes we went to Malleswaram Railway station . It is cute and just the right size.
On the flip side
1. No canteen
2. No book stall
3. Exit door as per script
Overall it is good and worth considering.

Practice ! Practice ! Practice !

Practice makes Kruti a great team! Inspite of rains the kids came and we had good session. Next task is finding the lead lady and production planning !!

Rehearsal starts

Yesterday, we chose on Vinod playing the role of Arun and Kaviraj the role of Satish. Had a rehearsal done too.

Right now, the main constraint we are facing is for the role of the two women. I am constrained in getting these women from the slum, coz these women need to be around 30 years of age and their families will not be really ready to allow them to act in movies.

Noticed a very important thing yesterday. That, this script has a lot of scenes with Satish's mother on it. Something that hadnt registered in my mind earlier. Which means I need to have good candidates for both Satish's mother and the 'Stranger' woman.

Yet to freeze on the location ( railway platform i.e. ) .

Screen Test

Kruti team all set for the new project ... Screen Test for role of Satish !

Movie - Screen test

Yesterday we( RAghav and me ) went for location selection ( we were trying to find some good railway stations ) for shooting the movie. We went to some small and cute railway station near the K.R.Puram bridge. ( This is not the KR Puram railway station ). Only one train stops here we were told( This is the train that goes to Dhodaballapur ) . The station was really cute, but will not serve our purpose, since it does not have the usual station crowd. The station master( a mallu who spoke kannada with a mallu accent ;) ) showed us the various signalling instruments in his cabin and informed us that there are 150 stations ( big and small ) in Bangalore. We need to look at the train timetable to get the complete list and choose a medium sized station that will serve the purpose of the location for our movie.

Then we went to the slum . We have almost selected two bright and sharp 11 year old kids to play the role of Arun and Satish( Vinod and Kaviraj respectively ). One good thing about these boys are that , they are pretty sharp and they had actually read the complete script, could fluently read it out , and quite understood the story. This was a new experience for me since during the making of our play, children and youth much older could barely read a sentence properly. Which shows how sharp these two kids must be.

Wow ! We are waiting to start the rehearsals now.

Side note : In an conversation with SAraswati, she revealed that she hardly had time these days.. I asked her why - to which she replies that she was into some social work - wow ! I asked her what kind of social work - and she said that she was helping a blind girl to commute to college and back and was willing to take her to madhurai to some hospital where the girl could be treated appropriately for lesser cost.

God bless her ! :) There is so much we can learn from these kids.