Khwaab - Not Out was a script written by my elder son Shahen while he watched his kid brother practice cricket on a cricket ground.
This time around we were shooting on location other than our own residential complex. We were actually shooting on a road adjacent to a cricket ground. The same one where Shahaan, my younger son, was training for cricket.
The inaugural scene of the film required Shahaan to walk through a maze of shanties. I gave him his cricket bat to hold and instructed him to start playing shots as he walked through. He climbed two stairs of a metal staircase of a random house and I and Shahen were following him with the camera. The shot was done in one take ...watch it here ... and it is one of the best shots I have attempted without any prep ...truly guerrilla style. No stabilizer ...I didn't have one.
Sometimes not having too many gadgets is better not only to get some real good shots but also to avoid the unnecessary attention from onlookers. And they are plenty in our country. Films are revered and film shoots still enchant us.
Sound recording can be really tough on busy outdoor location with vehicular traffic, that too with sound recording device made from earphones.
We shot in two days again. Rule learnt -
Don't procrastinate! Perfection is a mirage.
Doing is reality! The true art of film making lies in doing.
A good editing software is a must. Not necessarily a very well known industry standard one, like Avid or Final Cut Pro but definitely have a machine that has the right configuration to run your editing software.
I was editing Khwaab - Not Out on my Lenovo Z 560, but it was pretty low on configuration to support my editing software.
If I could edit Khwaab -Not Out again today ... it would be much better. But remember - Doing is art. Perfection is a mirage. Watch the best of Hollywood and Bollywood films, you still will find some errors ... very minute ones maybe, but very much existent.
A good editor is not one who cuts at the right places but who makes best out of the dailies on hand. In my case I couldn't even curse the director or the cameraman.
CGI, though, has made things easier and artists lazier. Not a statement ... simply an observation.
As much as a good emotion holds the film together it's also true for performances.
The nuanced subtleness of Firki and the meaningful innocent blabber of Champu are captivating enough for the viewer to not notice how many times the machine hung.
And yes... the RGV bit in the start this time around was not for eyeballs. Some of RGV's initial films are amazing experiments in self learning.
But never ever overdo your experimentation.
Learning continues...
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