A letter from Cannes ..

from fbeauville@festival-cannes.fr reply-to fbeauville@festival-cannes.fr to veena.mithare@gmail.com date Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:17 AM subject Festival de Cannes

hide details Mar 20 (11 days ago)

Monsieur / Madame Sunil Kumar SINGH

Nous vous remercions de présenter au comité de sélection du Festival de Cannes le film THE STRANGER que nous venons de recevoir.

Nous vous informons que la conférence de presse annonçant les films sélectionnés aura lieu le 15 avril 2010.

Si votre film est sélectionné pour le Festival de Cannes, vous serez prévenu avant cette date.

Cordialement,

Christian Jeune

Festival de Cannes

Adjoint au Délégué général

Directeur du Département Films

______________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Sunil Kumar SINGH

Thank you for presenting your film THE STRANGER », which we have received, to the selection committee of the Festival de Cannes.

The press conference during which we will announce the films selected will be held on April 15^th 2010.

If your film is selected for the festival you will be notified before this date.

Yours sincerely,

Christian Jeune

Festival de Cannes

Deputy general Delegate

Director Film Department

For the want of a Cannes Submission !!

Ok.. the Last date for the DVD to be received at Cannes is 19th March. Thats why all that last minute jugglery at the dubbing and editing studio.

Somehow I had been confident that a DVD will take 4 days to reach by post to any international country - and in that over confidence , managed to keep this open till the last moment. But can you believe my surprise when I realised that all the courier shops were closed today because of Ugadi !

Now , we really have to take a chance about submitting to Cannes. Fedex promised to deliver in three days - which means that if I dispatch tomorrow - if all goes well - the DVD will reach the destination just before 19th close of day .

Crossing my fingers now !

Final Editing

On 15th, after completing the dubbing we landed up at the editing studio, to do the final editing - we cut one scene - mixed the music - balanced the dubbed voices and the music . Then we added the credits at the front and back of the movie.

Badri and the editor, worked from 3 pm to late in the night to 11 pm - but as promised by Badri - the movie was delivered yesterday night 11 pm at my home. :)

I couldnt have slept without watching the final product - and must say - I am very satisfied with the end result. Its come out well.

Now waiting to send it to the film festivals.

Dubbing...

Finally we dubbed for our movie on 14th and 15th of March. After the initial glitches, all the dubbing artists ( who were family and friends ) got an idea of how the dubbing works. And we all dubbed like pros ! :)

On 14th, we dubbed from 7 pm upto 11.30 pm - can you beat that ! And yet, we could not manage to complete the dubbing for Satish - since the children( Saurabh and Suhas - Chitkala's sons) that we had brought for dubbing , had a little older voice and did not suit Satish's character.

On 15th , we managed to get Aryan Saraswat ( Roli's son ), who completed the dubbing for us.

@ Dubbing studio

Oh! it is not easy...all dialogues ringing in my ears :-)
But it is fun.. few more steps..next 2 days we will be mastering the move. It has been long journey!

Music Recording done ! :)

We recorded the music for the movie yesterday ( 9th March ).

Was amazed to see how BV Srinivas was creating music on the fly - and such beautiful pieces at that. The flutist, Prithwin and the tabla player, Vijesh were young boys whose contact I had got thru other friends.

Both of them did a great job. Wherever Prithwin was not able to catch the tune, was amazing to see how beautifully BV Srinivas was handling him - with so much of encouragement and restpect.

His parting lines to Prithwin in fact were - Practice well ok ! :)

Now waiting for the final editing to be done.