First Day of Dev.D
Well, what do you know?! Today (27th February 2008) was the first day of filming Dev.D. Earlier Anurag and his crew went to Reading to film a couple of scenes; I was not able to visit the location, but fortunately, they were shooting a couple of more scenes in evening and in Central London, to be precice, the location was a ship – which was just parked opposite London Eye.
And I was there, to see what all filming is about; meet Anurag & his crew. So I shook Anurag’s hand, Abhay’s hand and rest of the crew, as Anurag introduced me to everyone. Anyway, it took them one hour to shoot a 30 seconds scene and one more scene was left – perhaps they were waiting for correct light for the scene; I left before that! I suppose, filming can be quite laborious! My first impression is that, the technical crew works more hard than either the director or actors. No? I could be wrong cos I have only seen one hour of shooting!
I do not know if I am allowed to share the scene or not, so won’t write about it – and I am informed that he will soon start blogging about the film.
Anyway, I don’t have any stories to share; sorry, to disappoint you guys. I am not a film buff, so could not construct a conversation with Anurag or anybody else. I wish the heroine was there, so I at least could have tried flirting with her and maybe then would have had a lot to talk about, eh?
But, I did briefly chat with everyone and there was this guy (I forgot his name – he is holding the clipboard in one of the photo, sorry mate!) who had arrived today in morning from Mumbai and started working straight away! They do work hard and long hours! I found watching the filming for an hour quite hard work (mind you, I am a bit lazy, though)!
[Edit: Anurag on Dev.D]
But have a few photos to share (which were taken on me mobile, so are a bit…):
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Wow, two pfc authors meet 2 filmmakers in one day… HG you going back again?
kya HG? this is more like a “errrm eerm ermmm ” post??!!!
and whats this?? “I am not a film buff, so could not construct a conversation with Anurag or anybody else.”?? !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is only a start! There is a saying, It is not how you start but how you end.
buy a better mobile
wow so cool
first time on a film location?
aur mobile wobile chhodo, get a camera!
Hope AK starts blogging on Dev.D soon.
Good one HG..but, saala..u need to talk a bit more..now come on..with Anurag there….there is no tension…u will not find many filmmakers as chilled as he is…so use the oppurtunity…and beg borrow or steal a good camera yaar..
BTW the guy behind the clipboard..is he Abhay? wearing a strange wig, eh?
Mmm… Nice location!
I am not a film buff, so could not construct a conversation with Anurag or anybody else.
Oh, come on! That sounds more like the kind of thing I would do, but… HG?! :-?
My first impression is that, the technical crew works more hard than either the director or actors. No?
That is the feeling I have always had from “making ofs” and stuff like that.
Anyway, seems you had a nice time! Thanks for sharing. Next time introduce me to Abhay Deol. :w;
HG, bhai… kya post hai ye? Are you allrite?
Did u write the above post of did u get it written by someone? Kya hai ye?
Plzz… Dev.D starting man, need more… a whole lot more…
aaah first post on DevD blogging :-)
:d/ :d/ :d/ :d/ :d/
YEH DIL MAANGE MORE !!!
:(( :(( :(( :(( :(( :((
Next time HG – get the names, talk to everyone u can on the sets and remember down their experiences. Better still may be write ur experiences down on paper as soon as ur done from the sets.
“But, I did briefly chat with everyone and there was this guy (I forgot his name – he is holding the clipboard in one of the photo, sorry mate!)”
ROHIT KHAITAN
yep, behind the clipboard, it is Abhay Deol standing – wearing a baggy sort of cap, not a wig.
karitk, I did speak to everyone, but it was a trivial conversation…..
Vasan.. yep, Rohit.. I remember it now… thanks. Howcome you did not come?
Well well well! I haven’t heard about this film… shame you can’t share any more but I love the write up!
B xx
B, Dev.D is an adaptation of the novel ‘Devdas’ – set in today’s era. Abhay Deol plays 21st century Devdas and there are two new actresses… the film is set in London, Punjab and Delhi.
HG, nice introductory post on Dev D. I too was wondering what Dev D was about…..a contemporary adaptation of Devdas sounds interesting….is Anurag the writer too ?
Arun, it was Abhay Deol’s idea and Anurag has written the script.
kya hai yeh…kyun hai yeh…kaun hai yeh…kahan hai yeh..ok..london. Gooooooooonda….tu kyun hai zindaaaaaaa!!!!!!
there was one trivial fact i found interesting.. if it is a silent scene, then they do not clack the clapboard. the clapboard is only clacked if the scene has any dialogues, i think..
OZbhai, is it time to create a movie blog for Dev.D?
@H.G,
You have made history. Reporting a Hindi film shooting from UK’s land.
So AK’s Devdas, like Sanjay Bhansali’s Devdas, has connection with Vilayat.
Vilayati Dev Babu.
Achacha hai.
You did not talk with Abhay Deol? Dont lose the opportunity to have a special interview with him.
If you like people can send you quetions to be included in your questionaire.
Man how much I envy this! Cn somebody please tell me who’s the cinematographer/DOP? And since the script is kickass and hugely controversial [according to the indian standards] am eagerly looking forward to it. Please keep the posts coming in.
suchita b .. Rajeev Ravi is the cinematographer …
Hey, I’m in london. How do I get to meet AK? Or even, become an extra in his movie?
aur mangta hai na bhai! jaise jaise detail ayega to batake jao Goonda bhai!
“The Bicycle Thief on February 27th, 2008 6:41 pm ”
kya baat hai……superb…a quote more important than any metaphorical/analytical//metaphysical/review/panel – blah-blah/defragmentation/dissection of any film….
JUST ONE THING, few days back there was a post on anuraag kahsyap discussing no smoking, there were a few you tube links, i saw it in the afternoon thought i wud come bac and view the videos but when i checked pfc at nite the post was removed!!!!!!!!
can someone tell me why the hell was that post removed!!!!!!!!!!
HG…you abs loved Socha Na Tha and Ahista Ahista…and you dont know what to speak with Abhay?…yaaar…come on….ek chota mota interview kar de…if you need help in the questions dept, we can help you….
what a waste of an opportunity!
wish i could assist on this project… had heard a few scenes anurag was reading out to his team members at his place and it was fun… Its gonna rock…
In fact Steve one of our regular reader of pfc too wanted to visit the sets… he lives in wolverhampton….
Thanx Anand Kadam.
Hey Surya,we are auditioning for the next two films so been tied up. Lost the number you sent me of yours. send me again.
where do u work suchita ?..just curiosity abt where two films are cast for, together?
Sags, looks like you are new in the industry, otherwise you would know that production houses cast for 3-4 films together..never mind…TIME and only TIME….
no i am aware ..actually i should have framed my question as where else …and why do i need to be in the film industry to know this , its all over the media ..such and such actor signing a film deal and stuff and as aamir khan pointed out they have no scripts…but casting for smaller roles together for two films is not a very common thing or i am not aware or may be you work with yash raj and other factories .
oh time …are you giving away somethintg there ??? ..clever!..are you with mirchi movies or something(isnt that what thye call their films division)?
i captured the first shot of DevD
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHqw1PYKJs
Next time will you please atleast try to interview the actors and oh what time period is Dev D set in?
PrettyInPurple.. the film/story is set in today’s era.. 21st century Devdas.
When will the movie be released overseas and more importatntly on DVD?
PrettyInPurple, I am not sure if the film will be released overseas. We will just have to wait & see. The film is stated to release at the end of year – in Oct/Nov.
‘Sides, they have only started to shoot the film.
hi
anurag sir
can u tell me when paanch will be releasing. I desperately want to watch it. Is it available on the internet?