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.