Diploma

I called this blog ataki film as I don't know whether the film will be made or not.

It was one crazy ride making this film. Almost at every step we felt we wont be able to make it because there were blocks from external factors. Well instead of writing a sobbing essay about that let me see- a month after the shoot - what all things from pre-prod and prod stage stays.

Pre-prod stage:
0) Zahir - original sexually charged story that gave way to this script after realizing that that won't fit in 10 minutes. (Not that this one fits)
1) First call from Jackie Shroff sir. I picked up and he said : "Jackie". That's it.
2) Walk to Taj Land's end with Dev to meet Jackie sir and his approval and the following jubilation on getting out from the coffee shop.
3) The numerous rides on various local trains in mumbai squeezed between so many people to goto VT for getting railway permissions. Getting caught for travelling without ticket in Bandra station because the ticket was in Dev's pocket and he had left for Goregaon.
4) Individually and collectively crying in front of A.K. Jain (Railway Chief PRO) for giving rail permissions.
5) Getting bank guarantee from college.
6) Marco(my cinematographer) not coming issues. Cute Chetan coming on board.
7) The day we felt that we will use slo-mos in the film. Orgasmic high.
8) Sitting on the floor outside LFW (Lakme Fashion Week) waiting for Jackie sir who was attending it. One bad guy tried to shoo me away and one nice guy gave me a pass to enter.
9) Casting the girl from Nashik - my very on Dixit - Ovi dixit.
10) Script rewrite torture and almost dying trying to rewrite original characters and moments from 5 am in the morning and after 20 drafts the feeling that no one is liking it now and trying to figure out why.