These 14 months of research and persevering work gave me a new reference frame for my job and life. The new growing perspective towards my life always helped me dig out the positives from every situation.  Our short film is already 14 months old and exceeded the budget. The amount

We could sense the unavailability of locations in the coming days as the second wave of COVID 19 was already a part of us. Taking all these factors into account, the storyline got dropped. All these dropped plans indicated a lack of futuristic thinking in our team.  During those low

When the world was welcoming the year 2021, our team was planning for the upcoming months. We decided to give a pause to this story and look for an alternative that won’t make us suffer for a location. We hired a new scriptwriter and finalized the script by Feb 2021.

To bridle the perplexed locational dilemma, we decided to move out of Maharashtra. Vadodara, Vapi, and Rajasthan were the three chosen locations that we had decided to stop by. In these places, I have my friends and extended family. Visiting these places helped me enhance socializing in my personal as

The days were not one of my finest periods. Almost speaking to my every friend and spending months in search of a location, we had covered a long way.  Still, the hunt for the desired venue kept ongoing. The next location lead popped up in a Google Advertisement. It was

Clouds of disappointment were all over me. With the belief that “A new day comes with new opportunities” I went to bed, waiting for the sunrise. The very next day I scrolled through the contact list and tried finding out new leads for location. Some of my close friends recommended

The hankering for those abandoned buildings eventually kept on growing inside me. I decided to reach the owner of those buildings. On arriving, I got to know that the Parsi community had an established panchayat and I had to consult there.  My desperation for those buildings made me do everything

The lockdown was an eminent period for me as I balanced my hard work between the script and my freelance projects. Finally, by October 2020, the script was fully ready and we were into our pre-production stage with a tight budget.  One of the prominent snags of my journey was

It is said that nothing can substitute experience. I had sent my script to my film school teachers and the mistakes they pointed out were very realistic and eccentric. We analyzed those inaccuracies, rectified them to give our script fine-tuning and finishing touches. Also in the back of my mind,

Those hours of late working in the cafe with my writer, as we did not have an office place have finally paid off. By March 2020, the fourth draft of the script was ready. We sent it to our close friends, relatives, co-workers and the feedback we received was satisfactory.

The raw idea conveys the torment amidst an old couple who could not meet due to the lack of communication in 2019. We dropped the idea, as the absence of a communicating medium is rarely seen in the modern era. I assembled my team and started thinking of ways how

The abolition of the team was not one of my comforting days to handle. I remained oblivious and distraught for a long time. When the cloud of sorrow was all over me, I met the rescuer of my condition. She is a scriptwriter with a great sense of storytelling. The

My collaboration with my college friends lasted for 3 months. The team was formed with the belief of working in the same rhythm everyone used to have in our college days. During the working tenure, everyone had shot some ideas. There were 25 ideas the team had worked on, but

After the release of my first short film, I had served as a freelance filmmaker for a few agencies and clients for some months. During the work duration, I could comprehend how my skills were growing with each project.  Eventually, I made my mind certain that I would start working

Hello there! Youtube teaches us every fragment of filmmaking, but very few tell us about the hurdles we encounter while implementing it. I have committed myself to share with you the lessons of my first short film and what transitions I brought while preparing for my next short film. Log