psst, that’s my baby, Majbur Zindagiyan!

Off the record:
It took total 2 days to make, including conceptualization, interviewing some poor souls and the post-production. I remember my friends dozing off and me working on editing, through the night, ofcourse, hurling curses at them at every possible instance. Creating this movie has been one of the best experiences of my life, and winning that prize, one of the fondest memory of achievement. I miss you guys, my loved majboor fukeers.

Officially:
A documentary about the children and elderly of the city Bhopal (capital of Madhya Pradesh, India) who are forced into a life of misery and hardships because of their poverty. Stood first in a national level movie-making competition held at NIT, Bhopal (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology aka MANIT and MACT) in ’06.

• Explore – More original shayari by the original shayar Prakash here – “Thought-String“

I watched two movies this weekend, much hyped Ram Gopal Verma’s – Sarkar Raj and a french flick C.R.A.Z.Y.

Mini review: You can’t compare shit with apples/oranges. C.R.A.Z.Y. wins hands down in all the departments, be it story development, background score, performances, cinematography.. just name it! I can not cease to wonder why RGV is touted as being amongst india’s finest directors when he makes such kind of bull.. Ofcourse, we do have good directors and exceptional movies too, but as it turns out, most of the movies nowadays depend more on packaging rather than on content, TASHAN for example. Its about time that Indian cinema comes off age.