Sale

The DVD (+Audio CD) will be available for sale from the 15th of May. Contact Hundredhands at 080-25593606 (or email touch@hundredhands.com) to get hold of a copy. :)

The Final Cut

The film is now officially complete. No more going back to the drawing board. All the drawing is done, the hands have tired. We went back to the original cut, made it a little tighter (its now 74 minutes long) and added a few more photographs, done a bit of juggling in the structure. I must say its looking quite nice now. I have seen the film over a 100 times and I still enjoy Mr. D's voice (and Bijoy and me know every single word in the film).

There was a screening at MLR Convention Centre on the 1st of May. The response was fantastic. The students loved it and we had a lovely Q&A after. These things feel good. Unfortunately Bijoy wasn't there with me. I took Prakash along instead. We are planning another bigger screening on the 15th. Lets see if it pans out. The DVD's will be available for sale. And as a special extra, it comes along with the original soundtrack of the film and two short films on Doshi's beginnings and his outlook on the Bharat Diamond Bourse collapse. Both very engaging, even more thanks to Mr. Trent Reznor's themes.

So, there...

15 and a half months later...

So, today seems like another little milestone in this Doshi project. I managed to finally find the solution for this nagging problem. The film is now complete and we are going to send a copy to Mr. D tomorrow. I hope he likes it and I hope he understands where we are coming from re: the insertion of his failure with the Bharat Diamond Bourse into the film. It makes him human. Earlier the film was a glory picture, he came across like God.

We also applied for the Jan Vrijman fund in Amsterdam. If that comes through we'll have some money to do the audio post-production and final mix. Lets see what's in store for us.

A precious new 8 minutes...

Doshi from Premjit Ramachandran on Vimeo.

And so...

...our journey begins again.

Tra La La

I just returned from a 5-day film-bazaar event in Goa. Lots of big names were there. While I chatted and chin-chined with Shaji N. Karun, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Anurag Kashyap and Mr. Shyam Benegal, I realised its a long road. To get anywhere. Recognition is more than just a drink with the boys. There are, apparently, over 50,000 documentary filmmakers in India. All trying to bite into the distribution pie. "Sell my film, its good", they all say. So much promise. No avenues. We are, after all, step-sons and step-daughters of the Indian film industry. There are no trifle puddings for us. But someday something will happen. Our film is finding it so hard to make an entry into the Landmarks and Crosswords of India. On a crossroads. Which way now? When people like Shaji Karun come to such an event pitching their project for funding what chance does a little-known to almost unknown filmmaker like me have? God bless us. God bless Mr. Doshi for opening his doors to us. Thank God for that. Just that is enough. :)

IN NYC

:)