Saturday, January 5, 2008

What happens,

When one fine day, you wake up in the morning, and this thought hits you like a blood-thirsty mosquito, or like a vengeful Rickshaw driving through the Jadavpur to Ranikuthi route.


"OMG, I have to make a film".

Pretty weird, I know.
It feels awesome when your concept gets chosen.
It starts feeling less awesome when one fine day, you wake up in the morning, and this thought hits you like a blood-thirsty mosquito or like a vengeful Rickshaw driving through the Jadavpur to Ranikuthi route. , "OMG, I have to make a film".

Well, apart from writing the ..err..trying to write the screenplay , shot division et all, I m spending pretty much a lot more time musing on HOW very easy and uncomplicated life would have been, had I been made to write a short story or better still a random blog post.

Anyway.
My teacher called me by some other name today. Totally trivial and "brush-away" and "laugh it off" worthy types incident, but somehow, it made me real sad.You know, those times when you think your life is after all, a bed of roses, and then suddenly you see this huge monster [monsters ARE huge, duh uh, whats wrong wimme?] coming your way, and you try very hard to keep the rose petals on the bed intact, and then the monster just comes and does not harm you or anything but sneezes a very self satisfactory sneeze, and then well [stressing on the hugeness part] the rose petals are blown away anyway.

The only reason why I went forward and actually typed out the previous analogy is that I thought it'd gimme and it DID gimme a REAL hard kick to think of my professor as a monster.That too a huge one.Well monsters are huge anyway.


So college is fun. I get to harness these absolutely fantastic "people skills" that I've got, by behaving properly with friends.There are times when I falter, say the wrong thing or do something "piss-offable", I face the music with appropriate calm and composure.The music ranging from crude offliners that make one look like the cruelest person alive and cruder rudeness when one tries to make peace.

Here I must and I must must must quote a detached piece from a phone conversation I recently had. The guy asked me not to take his name, so just for the fun of it, the kind of fun that a person wants to have at 1.11 am in the morning, I am gonna call him Voldemort.


Voldemort: .......I mean look at me, inspite of being told again and again that I am making the worst type of career move possible, instead of being told that I am ruining my life , I am gonna go forward and stick to my decision.

Me: Dude, you've been told that travel journalism is a bad career move?..you surely hang out with the wrong kind of people.

Voldemort: Its my parents we're talking about.


So today, I realized that I can't [even] set a camera on a tripod properly.Please read the second line of this post.The one inside quotes.

15 comments:

Angry Voices said...

If you were a song, you'd be "me against myself". And you'd write darn good lyrics for it too.

Put the song in the film. It's gonna be a good film. I can tell.

Zahid said...

Why dont you start off as a assistant to an assistant director who is well versed in adjusting the different angles a tripod can be placed....It will help..I presume....ANd that was a nicce converstion with voldemort !!

~Moo-lah Buz!nezzz~ said...

monsters are huge??..
Maybe u havent seen the movie Monster Inc...

Anonymous said...

sometimes dreams come true.... ....invariably they are the wrong one

Anonymous said...

the "token"comment

Anonymous said...

Monsters are cute too. Watch Monsters Inc. and you'll know. :D

But I feel that you can become a good scriptwriter too. Keep it up. :)

ad libber said...

Congratulation on being chosen anyway.
And tell Voldemort I have exactly the same ambition. I just went and maade sure my parents have no inkling about it.
And please tell me how he does manage to convince them later on :(

What's In A Name ? said...

Would love watch "your film". :)

onnesha said...

wow!
go girl!
and lissen,none knew the nittygritties of filmmaking from day one.you will catch up.

Amazing Graze said...

been reading too many calvin & hobbes strips lately?

causticji said...

well, have to agree with Tom Riddle Seniors here ... till u prove yourself, anything other than a secure career path is a bad career move.

But I hope for your own good that you master the art of mounting the tripod (even though I don't quite believe what you said)

PS. You know what a really bad career move is? Rock music. :P

ArSENik said...

Lucky Voldermort. At least people give him 'wise' advice. On the same topic (different career though), my parents just end up being supportive and saying "Well, if that's really what you want to do..." and then trail off noncommittally. All this after I spend nights practicing speeches to convince them.

What's your film about? Would love to collaborate with your randomness some day :) I have to make one in less than a couple of months or so and there's no script. There is a story in mind, but I don't know if rain will be available. And then, B&W does no justice to a cloudy sky. So, let's see.

coffee stain said...

for all those ppl who have seen monsters inc. "boo" was pretty big... and the other one was short

dreamy said...

@ Angry.... okIwillwritethelyrics then putitinmyfilmtoo. :D



@Zahid... yeah thats the right thing to do.Only, I never seem to be doing the right things.

@Moo-lah... Noupes I haven't. :'(

@TGWAZN... You might be right. I wouldn't know.

@Dyaus... thankooo :D


@ ad libber... Thank you. :D, I will do the needful :P


@ whats in a name... Heehee. :P

@ Onnesha... Righto, hope I will. :)

@amazing greys...yes I have , yes yes yes I have !

@vonabi... you don't believe me?...whaaaa?:O

@Arsenik, Sure :) my concept is about this person having random conversations with his emotions. Sounds really dreamy, the trick is too execute it properly :D

@Coffee stain...NO IDEA, [as usual] :D

Anonymous said...

Am making two films...