Editing done

So we now have an edited version of the movie - and must say - it has come out well.

Now the critical part of completing the movie is to add the music. Ananth now has a copy of edited version , to work on . Also contacted CD and my music sir - hoping that they agree too.

P.S. - Just for smiles - Watched the movie with mozart running at the background - and enjoyed the movie :)

Yipee!!!!

Wo ! After a lot of difficulty, we could manage to get Ruskin Bond's no.

And today, me and Chitkala spoke to him regarding granting us the copyright permissions.

As soon as I mentioned Kruti from Bangalore, and that I had sent him two letters, he remembered the project and said that he was ok about giving us the copyright permissions !!!!!

The only thing pending now is to send him the legal letter format , so that I can formally have Ruskin Bond's permission.

Thank you so much Mr. Ruskin Bond !

Shooting - Day 3

Ok - so we completed the shooting yesterday.

Since we had already "been there - done that ", this time, we were not as excited as we were in the first part of the shooting. However, we had our share of excitements for the day :)

The day started with me and Raghav leaving at 5.30 to pick up Mohan from his house. Five mins before reaching his house , I call up Mohan to check if they are waiting for us on the main road. Mohan's dad picks up the phone as says - Mohan is not waking up. I have been trying for the past 1/2 hr!

What!!

We rush to his house , and thankfully, Mohan wakes up seeing us . He gets ready and we leave to pick Rahul, Arun and Chitkala up from the gate of our apartment and at 6.15 we start our journey to Marlwadi. We reach Marlwadi at around 7.15. Sunil and Sateesh come in his car at around 7.30 . And what do we see in Sunil's car !- We had a welcome guest in the car - Sunil's 6 year old , super cute son had come along :)

The crew comes at 8 am in the morning - and we start the shoot. We shoot first at the timberyard. Then we go to the tea stall . Complete the shoot there - and then we have our lunch between 2 to 3. Then we go to a new place where we wanted to shoot the scene with 'little kaveri'. God! This girl is too cute !! She had the beauty of a lady and innocence of a child - big round eyes and curiosity written all over her face :) Patidev also got to be a part of this scene .

Then we come back to the busstop and complete the rest of the shoot at around 5.45. Thankfully, Vilas could manage to come to the location at around 5.15 with Deepa and little Kevin.

We packed up by six, thanked the 'provision store' owner and his wife at Marlwadi for all the kind support they gave us during the shoot.

The star of the day had to be Supreet - Sunil's son - who kept entertaining us with his antics.
And the shoot of the day had to be the one with Kaveri in it :)

On the way back Chitkala and me couldnt help remembering the different spaces that this project went through. We remembered the time, when the main actors dropped out - remembered the time when we were searching for the director - and then how we found Sunil and how suddenly everything started falling in place.

Chitkala also mentioned something like - this project has to come out well. When such beautiful people with beautiful minds come together, it has to give good result.

Hmm - now for what next
1. Get copyright from Ruskin Bond
2. Get the music done for the movie
3. Get the editing done
4. Once the above 3 steps are taken care, prepare for screening of the movie .
5. Send it to the international film festivals.

Need to keep the focus on for now !

Night before the shoot - II

Ok - So tomorrow is the final day of the shoot. Not much work to be done for tomorrow. Things that needed to be taken care were

1. Ensure that all the artists are ready ( hale and hearty :) )
2. Ensure that all the items for the scenes are there- this includes those stuff that is there on the artists - like hairclip, earrings, bindi, chappal for chitkala and watch, shoes, bag for Mohan.

I ensured this for both the artists.
On the call Sunil mentioned that there are 70 shots - and he had planned all of them carefully. Or was it 17 ?

Lets see how tomorrow goes - will keep you all updated.