Day 1

Day 1 - 6 Oct

We are considering 6th October as the "official" start date of the film, as that's when action began for me. We'd discussed the film, read through the script, tossed around ideas and done some very basic groundwork for the last month, and Gaurav has been working on it far longer, of course, but 6th is when for all intents and purposes we pressed the green light on the project.

I met Gaurav at his flat, we looked over some of the basic work I'd done regarding festivals to submit to and general ideas about the film, and then spent about 8 hours just talking--how we were seeing the film, the production, the working environment he wanted to create, what my part to play in that would be, et cetera, et cetera. It was good groundwork to go over, then we met a couple of his friends, struggling writers in the scene. It's interesting how many people I've met who have similar stories to mine and Gaurav's--that of deciding one day to cash in our chips with whatever game we were playing and trade it all for Bollywood. For some reason, that's slightly reassuring.

My work now is to go over scene and location breakdowns and start coming up with a master schedule for all facets of the production: scenes, locations, actions, props, costumes, cast, mood, everything. Gaurav is still working on fixing the lead role and some other title roles, as well as pinning down the financing.



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