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“Perder el Norte” (to lose one’s North) in Spanish means to lose one’s way, to become disoriented. This also means that the map has no meaning, you wander off from the usual route.
This according to me allows you to look at things in a new way, chart new courses and maybe look at the whole existence differently.

I had this feeling many a time after making Frozen. Traveling to distant lands taking the film and savoring the places, meeting new people and making new friends.

The trip to Granada for 2Cines del Sur film festival will be another one like that, so I thought. I had read many stories and seen enough films about Spain and knew about the cross-cultural ties with India that I didn’t feel that I have landed in a foreign land.

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A NOTE ON WHY IN BLACK & WHITE

The question has been often asked to me about the reasons behind doing this film in black and white. I hope this helps explain our stance.

Let me say something about the setting. The landscape of Ladakh is very stark. The colours are predominantly shades of amber. In the winters there is not a speck of green to be seen. The foliage is reduced to skeletons. The northern sky is a deep blue, in contrast to the deep black shadows the sun casts. The Indus is frozen at the banks and trickles in the middle – dark under a thin sheet of ice. The outside temperature ranges from -15 to -30 depending on the time of the day.

The story is set against the backdrop of these extreme conditions. For the characters, this is part of their daily life. This terrain and landscape was chosen …

Have you heard of shooting a sync sound film without a silent generator? I guess not unless it’s a silent film.

Well we did just that during the shoot of Frozen. We shot a sync sound film with a 125 kv open generator.

The time we decided that we wanted to shoot a sync sound film in icy heights of Himalayas, people thought we were crazy. How would we take a generator to Ladakh at a height of around 12000 feet from Mumbai?
The generator comes loaded on a van. Now Ladakh has two approach roads one from Rohtang Pass and the other from Kargil. These roads involve driving through few of the highest passes (average height of around 14000ft) in the world.

We were shooting in the month of Jan-Feb 2006. I got the idea of getting the generator van in before the month of Oct 2005 and keep it there till we …

FROZEN JOURNEY…Part One…11th May 2008.

Toh bhai log, hum bhi aagaye…Kya karen public demand thee…

It’s amazing how things change? I remember chancing upon PFC site few months ago and couldn’t stop wondering about comments on Frozen. This was when no one had seen the film. And today I am here writing some stupid things. Well hello people this is me…Director of “Frozen”. I am really confused about what to write. Maybe lets start with the journey of Frozen. As Dabba mentioned that this is not Olympics but I would like to share the trials and tribulations of Making of Frozen. This is part one…

The journey of Frozen started few years back when I made my first trip to Ladakh. My friend Gauri accompanied me. Alan, my Line Producer and few of his friends were driving from the Rohtang Pass Route. I had driven from Mumbai in my Scorpio to Ladakh.

Driving …