Nine different rounds... Nine different thoughts..

The example i take here to illuminate could be bad... but i hope the point i am trying to make reaches you...

i went to the temple in mylapore to find some peace... as i entered i jus found some beggars asking for money... as i did not have any change... i jus went inside... then later after circumventing the main temple.. i came near navagraha sannadhi to make 9 rounds.When i covered 50% of my 1st round... there was an old lady in torn clothes.. sitting in the corner and begging for some money... i thought "y do these people come inside the temple and beg for money..." as i met her for the 2nd time.. she was begging once again... i thot..."y do people who run these temples are not taking care of these things..." in the 3rd round i found she was begging again... i thot "we should never encourage people like this as i could be helping them to become lazy and this could harm both herself and the society(this is one reason many of us assume ...as to y we should not encourage such acts")... on the 4th round she begged again... i now thot "i have found a reason y i should not encourage her.. but will i be doing something else for her or people like her for them to stop begging or am i just finding reasons for not spending money.. " came the 5th round.. it is then i realised i have to face her 4 more times and she will beg again and again.. somehow i happened to notice she was slightly handicapped... and i thot "wat else she could do... after being born under such conditions and circumstances... even after being born in a good family with all the love and affection i receive,i too have been bad at times... wat if i had been born like her... may b i would have been worser than her... who knows...? this time as i crossed her i jus smiled at her... but she has no idea of wat i am thinking... she was still begging(6th round).... then i searched for change... i realised i have only ten rupee notes.. so i thought "now i cannot help myself... its no more my mistake and i cannot help and i dont have to feel gulity for not helping her... she then begged again... then i heard one voice inside... i seriously dont know where these voices come from... if i dont answer them it makes me damn gulity and it jus asked me .. y dont u give 10 rupees...? wat do u gain by saving these 10 rupess.. don't be penny wise and pound foolish... all those previous assumptions and phillosphies started flowing... i know i cannot fight with that voice... i thought i will give at the end of my rounds... on 7th round when she begged i told her in action that i will give it at the end of all the rounds... after seven rounds i was now able to walk peacefully without questions... now i thought i should learn from her about the power of persuasion... i can learn how to position yourself or a brand in a strategic location in the midst of competitive market... how did she choose this positions ... if she would have been any corporate... she would work smart rather than hard... she made me walk towards her nine different times with nine different thoughts transforming my views and all the while she did not even move... in the end i gave a 10 rupee without any regret.... i went to find peace... would not have found that... if she had not been there... may be thats why she is there... giving peace to me... who knows...? god knows. as i came out i saw some more beggars... then all these questions started flowing... "i should have got some change and distributed to everyone... will all these money go to them or is there a gang behind... wat can we do about all these people...? " in another few seconds i will be loaded with 1000 more questions.... i started to move with these questions... suppressing them temporarily but will reccur somewhere else in some other time....

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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"...

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Learn the past,see the future...

Every word i speak is an experience from my past ..but,i think or speak about the future.i cannot speak anything about the future without the knowledge of my past So the more we dig/learn/understand/about our experiences or this country's History or the documented thoughts of our ancestors there is a better understanding about the future.So,if we can learn from the past and apply ourselves to the future then does that mean nothing is changing or is it the same as always... yes,i guess nothing is changing,change or evolution happens in the minds... then wat abt all the inventions,developments in science and technology that has happened in last few centuries.. ? are they not evolution...? are they not changes...? yes it is... but somewhere all these concepts were there and used in some centuries which now exist as story and fantasy.. they are not stories... they are not fantasies... they are the truth... like say how did Valmiki Bhagawan or vysar rishi wrote Ramayana & Mahabaratha... ? the incidents were taking place in different parts of Bharatha desam... but through their Metaphysical powers and through the grace of almighty... they were to able see the incidents in their place and write it.... with so many sub-plots and more than 500 characters..... with all technologies and evolution we cannot re-create the same story or write it even now... the concept we hear in ramayan or mahabaratha... has not been developed as a technology till now.( i mean those visuals of ramayana and mahabaratha which they were able to see form their place) may be it might take thousand more years... for a technology like that that to develop... even when we see that technology in front of our eyes... we might not believe wat happened in mahabaratha or ramayana was a similar concept.... because we need proofs,reasons,validity... there is more harm being done to the creative process by not believeing... any technology we invent can be associated with a similar concept in the our epics.... but its upto us to believe...







i hope most of us would not have missed this movie "AVATAR" wat those High Fi Techie guys named it in terms of technology.. the Navis had it as a part of themselves.. Actually they were much more advanced by even communicating with the animals they were driving and make the animals part of themselves.... May be u say its a story.. "agreed" but still the concepts looks the same... they think they are progressing but actually its the mind that is able to understand better and believe the concepts could be true when it happens in front of their eyes....




jim had even taken same reference from the epic Ramayana for his story... of tall the technology he can create for the future... why is he going back 10000000 of years to find references for his characters NAVI. millions of years of history before us... gives us an insight into the future of few years ahead of us.... when we go back in years... we are free of all that we know in the present and think in a new platform... as to how did they live this same life with same emotions so many years back...? if u find some answer/believe in wat they saw.. in that world... you have something to share,rt now to all of us!!!

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