From the sets of Bhram
The outsiders think of film industry as extremely risky, where the Stars make billions, while the others are left poor. There are so many money making businesses/professions involved other than acting or directing. One of them is renting out the gadgets used in the films in art department. On the sets of ‘Brahm’ there was a plasma TV, which costed 7000rs/day, a music system 5000/day, which were used for 8-9 days. So imagine after renting for less than a month the plasma is paid for. You make money selling it. Then there are people who have made fortune by just renting out the wood in films. There are caterers, security companies, editing/sound/mixing studios, etc.
A normal make-up artist charges anywhere between 2000-3000 rs/shift. A special makeup man was hired, who belonged to the ad/fashion industry. His charges were @16000rs/shift. Half a day was lost as he had an emergency situation and could not be on sets. I remember Sunny Deol’s make-up man. He and his wife both are into same profession. They own 2-3 flats in Andheri West, which today run into crores. Then we have camera people, who are in great demand. Script writers, editors, sound recordists and so many other professionals. The list is endless. If a person knows the work he makes good money. Off course there are people, who have spent their entire lives in this profession but have nothing. A few, who were stars once, died penniless.
Dino is a funny guy with weird sense of humor. Pavan and Dino can not stop pulling each other’s leg. Dino even kept a nickname for Pavan, which would be better to hear from horses’s mouth? While shooting a kitchen scene, Sheetal/Dino have to make eggs. Dino’s dialogues were,” Do you like your eggs fried or scrambled?” Dino with his sense of humor suggested the improvised dialogues to Pavan,”Do you like your eggs fried or fertilized?” I think Pavan accepted the improvised version?
The walls of Sheetal’s apartment were decorated with Hussains and Souzas. Establishing a rich person’s house. The colors and lighting were kept warm giving a romantic touch to the interiors.
Then there was a scene, where it is suppose to rain. The water was pumped from a tanker to 12th floor and was sprinkled. It was quite an effort to get the sprinklers just right for the screen. The images looked great, with water casting shadows on actor’s expressions.
Pavan likes using Jimmy Jib on tracks. Timing of the actors, camera’s tilting/panning, movement of trolley sometimes requires quite a few retakes. Pavan also uses lot of still shots and tracking shots. He is very clear about, where the shot would be cut and the sequence of the shots.
Tags: Blogging Bhram, Image Galleries
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
(yikes) that is just daylight robbery; i would have thought it would have been a bit cheaper. anyway, i did not thought much of sheetal in previous photos, but the one in black and pillow is quite….
Manjeet,
Great shots, mainly of Sheetal ey ;)
I had no idea that rentals would be so expensive. That’s a great deal of expense they have to incur.
Honhaar!!
There you are!!
I was going through some of your post from other topics, and discovered you’re a Rahman fan and love bgm’s too!!
Arre vah mere sher!
Also, ur a huge Ramu admirer.. now i can see why the ‘boarders’ at bbc asian network though i was u!
They are two of my all time fave film personalities!!
Do you now have most of rahman’s stuff in Tamil??
I have ‘em all… i think anyway.. also, what did you make outa the bgm from ‘Meenaxi’??
Pretty awesome aint it??
My apologies for leaving comments on this post which are totaly unrelated, but was trying to catch you!
Allah miya ka laakh laakh shuker hai…
By the way (i hope ur reading this!!)i must thankyou for providing links to this site.. its a fab site.
Really enjoy it!!
Thanks man…
Watch out for more pics from the madh island shoot!