In Search of Life

It was the summer of 99 when the Indian Film Industry saw a film like never before and a revolution in the film industry was about to happen. With the release of "KHAMOSHI" a lot of things changed when it came to me. The ability to paint what's inside your head is the best feeling a man can have and a movie was mere a canvas for it. A dream is fragmented and is never real, so as the films. The rather definition of the film was a device of teleporting the viewer to your world and showing him what you want to show them and thus a hefty footprints were marked about my future. . In 2007, when I was in 10th Standard and few things had already molted a shape with in. To become a film director it was necessary to step out of home and seek for possibilities but the biggest hurdle in front was the film industry was approximately 1900 Kms away and relatively much more than expensive than any other place in the country. Going Mumbai was itself a very big thing for the common citizens of India and here at a age of 16 where a typical Bengali family parents do not let their kids to even cross the sector of their residing was thinking to elope for Mumbai and he did. Without letting know anyone around, Upamanyu left home and started his journey to Mumbai which was supposed to take around 2 days to reach and there he had just Rs. 450 in his pocket. He was brutally confident on his script and thus came prepared that he will return only after directing a film. Pretty foolish but a bold step and there he spent around 3 days without food but with water as his supper for the meals and could survive the starvation within. In 2009 finally he bought a cyber shot camera, 5.1 Mega Pixel with 128MB memory stick, which was the highest at the time. He started shooting a story of his own in his hometown. The shooting would be done only on Sundays as the actors and the crew he took along was not actors but wannabees. They had different jobs and services for the whole week and thus on Sundays they would gather around to shoot the remaining portions. It took him 14 months to train and shoot the entire 2Hrs and 15Mins film (56 working Days) and stood up along the movie THE BROKEN TRESTLE. Later he came to know about the copyright infringements and he deliberately used all the background scores from Hollywood films and thus could not screen anywhere or in any part of the world. Though some local newspapers published him as his work had a private screening and technically the film was disaster and more over the acting was also not up to the mark but every one loved the story and hence they overlooked the problems. This was a big lesson for him and he himself used to say that working on films is itself a school for him where the life is his teacher and time his experience. He worked with some local directors to understand the technical aspects of the film. A lot of studies regarding the same but lack of guidance took much more time than a usual one and there he started working on big project along the rigorous homework which would make the entire crew and technicians to understand what he wants to say and how things will be proceeded. After 6 years he landed a project worth this expense and hence ended up making "IN SEARCH OF LIFE"