Production day musings

Day 1:
1) 4 hours shift - jackie sir reaching before all on us on the location.
2) Dev's "trick" to make the red boat float.
3) The wait over costume.
4) End of day 1 and we shot 1 scene less because the sun went down. Too much worry of schedule!!
5) Rehearsing in hotel room with Ovi and Vijay and momentarily revelling in the concept of outdoor shoot.

Day 2:
6) Cold shower at 4 am in the morning to awaken self. (P.S: I haven't taken cold shower since I was mentally born)
7) Javed dressed as God Shiva and doing focus pulling!
8) Taking train shots with public going mad in the compartment.
9) No electricity in the station - generator making loud noise - there goes the sync sound + Crazy hot afternoon with overhead sun.
10) Kokum sharbat by Dev, mango shake by Jaggu da!
11) Super punctual Jackie sir reaching much before estimated time and my mind going "Oh no he has already reached".
12) The playful laughing kids of the climax shot ...the whole crowd clapping on seeing the shot. Trying to freeze that moment.. (the shot went away on the editing table)

Day 3:
13) Mind-numbing struggle over the climax - thinking about the climax at the day of the shoot at 3:30 am in the hotel room.
14) Finally getting up and knocking at everyone's door at 4 - Dev was doing the budget work and hadn't gone to sleep at all. "Mein to abhi tak sone gaya bhi nahee aur subah ho gayee"
15) Early morning jogging on the station at 5:30 am to awaken people.
16) "Idhar kya dekh raha hai - mein tujhko kya madhuri dixit dikhta hun" - Jackie Sir's dialogues for people staring at him during the shot.
17) Crossing the tracks to take a shot from the other side of station and a long goods train coming and stopping to block us. That was 12 noon with overhead sun. We were stranded for 30 mins and strangely our throats started parching with thirst.
18) Akash Prakash Kasbe - the kid who provided me, Chetan and Madhavi cold water and prevented us from dying from thirst.
19) Tension of number of cans.
20) Tension of sun setting and taking away the light.
21) Ganpati visarjan shot where manavi and Madhavi got left in the train and had to be rescued..
22) The station master ending the shoot after 6 pm. Pack up. Eating grapes brought by Ovi's father.

23) Oh and I almost forgot - birthday on the set and cake cutting at night :).