A Post Script

This is regarding the two short films I have just uploaded on the blog. Both the films were made more than a year back, when I was studying Mass Media. I would have loved to provide the scripts of the films, but cannot. We did not really have a sense of any pipeline while making those films. Owing to our ignorance, I had hand-written both scripts, the copies of which are nowhere to be found now. I had thought of penning down the scripts by going through the films again, but later scrapped the idea. A script is made into a film, not vice versa. And though literally it is possible, I would not be doing justice to the literature. 

Venn, short film

This is one of the few short films I made with a filmmaker friend of mine. Venn was made on an intensely tight budget and in not more than three days. We entered the film in the Kolkatta Film Festival, where it was among the five selected films to be screened from the student category.
I co-wrote the concept and story of the film with Vishal, the director of this film. Owing to low finance and wanting to experiment with non-actors, Vishal decided that I should act as the lead character of the film. I personally find myself to be not a good actor at all, but Vishal says otherwise.
    

Nibandha (Essay) the film

Nibandha was my very first attempt at script writing. My college seniors after reading some of my Marathi poetry decided to make me re-write a script that they and a college professor had roughly come up with. I rewrote the entire script even making some fundamental changes in the story, which fortunately the team was happy to incorporate.
Nibandha (Essay in English) was shot in a small village in Alibaug. I was never present on the shoot, because the team did not have enough money to take me.