The Reluctant Crime

Realism always enchants me. Since my childhood, I have been seeing nomadic tribes coming in my village and halting for couple of month and then leaving the place. I observed their life style subtly, but I never knew their actual problems and conditions unless I started writing story about them. In my wide research I came to know they are deprived of all constitutional privilege and have no identity to proof their nationality. Living in this nation for century they are still deprived of the nationality and citizenship. This fact made me moved and I was compelled to tell this story at any cost. I met some nomadic people and learned the nuances of their life and their real problems which I later incorporated in my movie. I wanted to tell the story as real as I can. Budget was my main constrain, but my passion of telling this story gave me courage to complete it in a shoestring budget. How ever I started production of The Reluctant crime and experienced that this story was destined to be told as it deserved. Many wrong decision was improved spontaneously by initial failure of making this movie. I got all the cast and crew who believed in my vision and supported me to accomplish it with any extent of hard work.

For getting authentic touch of location in film I approached many authorities of different department, I got approval for most of places but some of the requests were refused. So I shot those scenes by gorilla approach.

To make the look of movie as real as nomadic people are I decided to shoot it at the same places where these nomadic people set up their shelters and I got costumes of some real nomadic people and villagers for the main lead characters. I casted real people for characters roles. Viz. Village head in movie is a real village head. Mobile shopkeeper in movie is also a real mobile shopkeeper. Ration distributor is real ration distributor..

Being nomadic people, the main characters in movie were not having any regional language, so I kept language of movie in Hindi with touch of eastern Utter Pradesh accent.

Editing was a new world to me but having very less budget for post work I had to learn editing on youtube and finally edited the whole myself. For colour grading I was much worried. First i did it myself, but having less feature in my application I could not justify with the tone of it. So I got a professional colourist to get the tone of film as I wanted. I kept dull colour to make it more rustic and dirty look.

Overall, it was a great learning process while making this movie. This movie made me strong and gave me plenty of courage to experiment on any subject. I learnt things which are to be considered and not to considered in filmmaking. My Basic knowledge of filmmaking got a good start up.