Florida - Key West Trip

The trip itself was not well planned but we managed somehow to go Florida. The reason for all of us not sure of going for this trip was that mainly due to Suresh and myself. I was out of project in Nov 1st week and the trip we wanted to go was on Nov 23rd. I expected that i would get a job by Nov 23rd but i didnt get any. Also Suresh was looking for a job so he was also not sure. And mainly Bharat dropped out due to his personal reasons.

But finally on Nov 22nd me Stanley and Suresh firmly decided to go Florida along with Vijay who already booked his flight to Miami. We started from Richmond on Nov 23rd Wed night at around 10 o clock. Stanley, Suresh and myself rented a car from budget and left to Florida. We got a Crown Vic which looks like a cop car. We had fun in the journey which was for 15 hrs. Stanley drove first next Suresh, next myself and final touch by Stanley made us reach Miami, FL to Naveen's place. Vijay was already at Naveens apt but he wasnt.

We freshed up had some food and left to Miami hotel resort on Miami beach. Before we started to Miami we changed our car Crown Vic with Chrysler 300 at Ft Lauderdale Airport. We logged in the hotel at Miami and went out on beach in the evening. It was also dark. We went to a near by beach restaurant had some beer and quesadillas. That night we went to Night club and drank a lot of alcohol and came home at 4 am.

Next day we checked out of the hotel room and went to Miami beach. Stanley was sitting in Starbucks and me Vijay and suresh were walking along the beach side which was actually little boring. Then we had some beer. After Stanley finished his work we went into the beach played for sometiime which was also boring.

After the beach we freshed up somehow on the road and beachside restrooms. Then we left for shopping. We were already tired and sleep deprived. Shopping was fun on the Miami beach straight outlets. I bought a AIX jacket and others bought some other stuff. After that we went to Aventura mall some 15 miles away. There we spent something around 2 hrs till the mall closed. We started from mall went to Pizza hut who made horrible pizza but we ate it. We changed clothes in Pizza hut parking lot and again went to Miami South beach for Pubs/Night clubs.

We didnt had any room to stay so we parked our car in a parking lot and stanley decided to take some sleep since he got to drive to Keywest in few hrs.

Me Vijay and Suresh went out at 11.30 AM to hit night clubs but no one allowed us in. Vijay was dissapointed and i felt sorry for him, but i was doing alright just that i was tired i cudnt do anything but to relx and have some beer. Vijay tried a lot to get us inside atleast one club but the effort was wasted. Then me and suresh some how convinced vijay to go to Ocean Dr to have some beer.

We went to ocean dr and it was lot happening over there. We went to Clevelanders bar which was open bar and also lot happening. Vijay got involved and got into the groove. Me and Suresh had fun chatting and having some beer. Then we went to Mangos Tropical restaurant which was a very good place to drink and dance. Vijay had fun throughout though he was not satisfied. Finally we finsihed out clubbing and then returned back to parking lot woke up stanley and drove to Key West at around 4 AM.

We reached Key West at around 8 AM in the morning, and i didnt belive my eyes how beautiful Key West was. I liked Key West more than the Miami itself. It was fun seeing the blue waters and whte sand.
We freshed up at Mcdonalds and then started directly to the boat for rides as a package.

We went on a cruiser into the middle of the ocean for water sports which was lot of fun. We went into ocean at 10 am and came back at around 5 pm. We did Kayaking, Snorkelling, swimming, Banana Boat ride, Ate on the cruiser, smoked and had beer, went for para sailing and finally came back.

At 5.30 pm we went back to the hotel at Key West and checked in and slept for 3-4 hrs. We woke up at 10 and went to Subway and ate. At 11 pm we went to Duval St in Key West which is one of the best streets in USA acc to me for offering wide variety of Carribean style bars and pubs. Special mention would be Schooner Wharf for its authentic raw natural cheap style of the restaurant which attracted me towards it.
I felt as if iam in carribean actually i really was. Next best would be Ricks and list goes on. We did clubbing till 4 am and left to hotel and slept. We woke up at around 10 in the morning and drove back to Miami for dropping Vijay at Naveens place.

We reached Miami at around 2 pm had lunch at indian restaurant and met Naveen. It was nice to meet Naveen after many years. He was as it is when i met him last time around four years back. Good guy good humor and we had fun. Then we said good bye to Naveen and Vijay in Miami on Sunday at 4.30 pm and drove back to Richmond. Stanley drove first then Suresh and last myself. We reached Richmond at 7.30 AM on Monday.

End of the Trip.

Dishkiyaav Experiences !!!

My project ended on April 28th, 2011 and i landed in virginia on April 29th. Now i was flying to India on May 6th and we got a time gap of around 4-5 days. I had this buffer for shopping while i planned the trip but i didnt want to waste my time in relaxing. So i proposed an idea of shooting a shortfilm which will be really short. Our original script and project of Dishikiyaav was tuff to implement as we thought its a bigger project and it involved comedy in it. We wanted something which can be winded up really fast. So i used the characters which ive build for Original Dishkiyaav and created a another version which is lil bit serious in narration and decided to shoot it.
The problem was our DOP Suresh was in India and the worst part was our camera was along with him. But as everyone knows it just takes pure will to do something but not physical entities. I researched a lil on the DSLR's and chose Nikon D5000 as our camera for our new project. We bought it and i decided to shoot it myself now playing the role of a DOP.
We started shooting immediately and it took us around 3-4 days for the shooting to complete (80%). But the problem i faced was to handle the camera were i came to know how important a DOP is for a movie to look good. I screwed up the footage a lil bit in the form of focus errors but though the locations and framing were appreciated. I was dissapointed not only becoz of some errors but also becoz of the sound. Nikon wudnt record the sound so efficiently hence i decided to re-record the voices for the talkie scenes.
I flew to India and did some major editing work whenever i got time and this time moving a step ahead. After i came back to US on June 20th, we designed a trailer and put it on facebook for which we got good comments. We have also re-recorded the voices and shot the rest of the scenes.
But to my irony, everyone thought that the shortfilm which we shot was Dishkiyaav itself, as i also posted some messages saying that our next project is Dishkiyaav, but it was not. Even me myself submitted to the thought becoz there was more firing of bullets in the second untitled shortfilm than in the original script.
Though i didnt do it with all my heart, upon various suggestions and discussions we named our second project as DISHKIYAAV. This is almost ready except the BGS.

My Shortfilm - Once Upon a Time In Fairfax (OUATIF)

Direct link :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj18uk_ouatif-mus-dir-720p-25fpsx264_shortfilms

Being a Coward D12 (04/23/2011)

I was driving the car and my friend is beside me in the passengers seat. We were in a very difficult situation so as to escape from the dangerous goons chasing us like hell. My friend was firing at them by peeping out from the window. Even they were firing at us. I was stuck in the traffic at typical junction on indian roads. Goons also were stuck 2-3 cars behind us in the traffic. Suddenly i have seen on the face of the goons through my rear mirror and recognized him. I asked my friend to stop firing and got down from the car to walk towards the goons.

They were around 20-30 goons chasing us who got down from their cars. I spoke to them as i knew them somehow. They were shouting at me and wanted to kill my friend. I took them into a side street away from the main road as we were stopping the traffic. I negotiated with them but they were not in a mood to listen to me. They had knives and guns with them. I pleaded them to leave my friend. I also told them that my friend would come and accept his mistake if any and sorrify for what ever mistake he did. They said ok and asked me to bring my friend to them.

Now started the real drama. I was about to leave the side street then i over heard from them who were discussing themselves to finish off my friend right away when he arrives i was scared suddenly and didnt react at all. i kept walking to my friend, who was very furious over the goons who were chasing us. I pleaded him not to be violent as they are in plan to kill him. So i requested him to be calm and accept his mistakes and just say sorry to them. I dont know why and how it happened but my friend out of anger ran towards them to teach them a lesson. He was not ready to accept his mistakes.

I ran behind him but by the time i reached the entrance of the street. My friend was already walking into the goons. They did not allow me to go inside the side street, but i was able to hear the knives tearing the flesh out of my friend and i would clearly hear the death screams of my friend. I was terrified and jolted in shock. I somewhere knew that my friend was dead. Goons kicked me out of the street like a dog. I fell down on the mainroad. Got up in shock. Walked back to the car. Drove home.

I went into my friends house and found his mother working in the kitchen. I took the stairs and went to the first floor to my friends room and suddenly i heard loud screams of my friends mother saying " He is dead. He is dead. They killed him. All my life i have told him not to interfere with goons. But he never listened to me. He is now dead. Look how they killed him. Without any mercy. They cut him into pieces". I understood that the goons had thrown my friends body in front the house.

These screams travelled through my spine like drugs and made me electrified. As i turned around to step down stairs to go down i found my friends grandfather in front of me whose eyes where filled with tears. He said to me, " He used walk as if he was a hero always. Never listened to our words". Saying that he wept like a child by holding onto my shoulders. My eyes filled with tears now and i realised how coward i am/was at that moment.

By the time i was thinking of the revenge i woke up.

Some posters of DISHKIYAAV

దిశ్కియావ్ !!!!!

ఎవరైనా ఎప్పుడైనా ఒక్క క్రిమినల్ కథ గురించి గాని లేదా ఒక్క విఒలేంట్ కథ గురించి గాని ఆలోచించినప్పుడు వారి మనసులో వచ్చే మొట్టమొదటి విసుఅల్ ఒక్క గన్ లేదా పిస్టల్. ఎప్పుడైతే అ గన్ వారి మనసులో కనిపిస్తుందో దాని వెంటనే వారికీ గుర్తోచేది అ గన్ చేసే శబ్దం.

ఇది ఇలా ఉండగా నేను నా రెండవ షార్ట్ ఫిలిం తేసే ప్రయత్నము లో రాసున్న కథ మరియు కథనం ఒక్క క్రిమే-కామెడీ కి చెందిన క్రోవ లోకి వస్తుంది. ఇప్పుడు అ కథ కి నేను పేరు లేదా టైటిల్ పెట్టాలని నిర్ణయించుకున్నప్పుడు నాకు కూడా మనసులోకి వచ్చింది ఒక్క గన్. అ గన్ చేసే శబ్దం ని న ఫిలిం కి టైటిల్ లాగా వాడుకుంటే ఎలా వుంటుంది అని వచ్చిన ఆలోచన లోనుంచి పుట్టిందే దిశ్కియావ్ !!!

న రెండో షార్ట్ ఫిలిం టైటిల్ దిశ్కియావ్ !!!

Chat with a Director D-11 (03/05/2011)

Me and one of my friend were at one of the famous director's apartment and discussing about his recent movie. We were actually explaining him how excellent was a scene conceived in his movie. Then he called two guys who were his asst. directors and told that the credit goes to these two guys whose effort behind that scene is terrific. He also said that particular scene was shot in 4 days by them. Then those two guys left the apartment.

Me and my friend were sitting on a floor mattrese along with the director who had couple of note books in front of him and few papers. He was writing something in the notebook and i tried to peep into his book and found the heading as Kitchen followed by mulitple bullet points which were like 6 cups, 10 plates, one stove etc. by which i thought he was writing list of items he needed for shooting his next movie scene. I was little amazed at how a director should take care of the intricate details of each scene. But then i asked him what was he writing.He replied saying that it is his daughters school record book which she asked him to do as she was sleeping.

I was now bit relaxed and told him what was my intial assumption. He then laughed and said we are not in 1950's anymore. Then i was trying to relaxing on the mattress as if to take a nap then the director went from the sitting room to another room which a corridor or balcony from there he signalled me asking to some outside. Then me and my friend went to the balcony. Now i was about to ask him that whether i can smoke, but before i asked he asked me saying i wanted to a have a smoke thats why i called you. Then while we started smoking i asked him that why did he tell in an interview that he dosent smoke and in real life smokes.
He said yes its true. I told in an interview that i hate smoking. And still i hate smoking. But what can i do i cant stop right. I think its the same with you thats what he said.