Small piece of advice to Future Filmmakers!!!!
There is a difference in giving a viewpoint or advice after being successful,before success, after a failure !!!... i don't know in wat stage i am... definitely i am not successful rt now... but neither a failure... but whatever i feel now.. i think is irrespective of the status i hold.... let me tell u the stage i am... u decide wat it is ... two years after re-signing from satyam computers .. i have worked in one complete movie... which has not been released... but have been important roles in the making of a good movie... but not sure when it will release... as it has some problems... apart from that i have completed working on my own script which has been re-written 5 different times... and now i am trying for producers... i want to say this rt now because whatever happens in future to me i dont know!!! but some years later when someone read whatever i write will be felt rt...
Now when i go to find producers ppl say this "go and work in 5 more movies as an asst director... become an associate director and then comeback to me..." why would i ever come back to him who has such an attitude.... or should i tell him i have been an assicate director in my first movie itself... i sure did not tell him that.... but where does this attitude come from.. u have to work in these many movie for these many years before u make movie.... why do they don't even listen to the script.... i am not angry... i am jus tired of hearing this repeatedly... "cinema is not a joke...its tough..." ,"i have been the industry for long you cant make movies with one movie experience.." i can give a list of filmmakers who have not done well after working as an asst and associate as per his standards.... at the same i can give ppl who have been successful even without being an asst in one movie.... Maniratnam, Shekhar Kamula, Ramgopal varma,Gautham vasudev menon(only one movie as an asst)...
if they can do this two decades before... why not now with all the developments in technology and books u can to read and learn.... instead of working with them....
My mom wrote letters.. i write email... My dad took 3 hours to travel to college ... i learn through video conference... similarly if spielberg and jim took years to learn the art we should learn it in half the time .... or else there is a mistake in the way we learn...
To all the future filmmakers.. my advice is this... never ever think you will learn the entire film making by working in one movie... you never can... but it does teaches about the problem u could face on the set if you don't plan well in your pre-production.... shooting days teaches you both how to and how not to make a movie... its very important that you be aware of both of these... and more importantly u get to know the different departments involved in the shooting hierarchy of the system ... which job should be given to which person in preproduction and whom should u question if it doesn't happen on the set... that's it... rest all the things you have to learn about film-making are there in books and tutorials... make a list of the the books and tutorials that u have to complete before you finish ur first movie or learn abt them before you leave your day job and come to full time film making so that nobody can treat you like you don't know anything and you have to learn from me... this is an age of information... ur going on wrong path or mistaken if ur expecting some to come to you and teach you... it never will happen but off course there will be some ppl with good experience from whom you can learn... dont miss them.. but never rely on one source... make ur learning rapid ... this is important in this industry ... finish ur script by the time u complete ur first movie.... work as an asst director for ur own movie and complete the pre-production before u go to the producer... re-write re-writ re-write until its ready....
There is one more important attitude i want to tell all the filmmakers... ppl say its the best industry... we are creative ... no one can beat us.... its tough to shine here... ok its all fine... but don't get into the attitude that all other industries are worth for nothing... someone has created automobile for us to use.. someone works on creating software for us to use... someone keeps improving the digital technologies... never can we understand these technicalities and difficulties... but they understand our requirements... everybody who goes to work in train and bus.. and sweat their hard work are in one way or the other helping to create a movie... don't ever say that ur passionate... i hate this word... you could be ambitious but by saying passionate... don't ignore all ur other duties and commitments in life and miss everything else in ur life and think only abt movies.... there is no point in catching a bus where there is no one to enjoy the journey.... if you do so.. .. ur movie will be boring and monotonous and ur movie will be only for your own ego.... don't do that... look at the life around you there is so much to enjoy,experience and express it through your movies....
Jus because we create a movie doesn't make us god... we have jus been chosen to harbour a good project like any other industry.. Above all believe in god... "there are so many things which happens even without trying... How does it happen..?"
Still an "Aspiring Filmmaker"...
