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When PFC-USA went Guerrilla mode

Last Friday PFC-ites from Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles flew down to HQ. Amidst loads of beer, tea, DVDs they got hold of a camera and went to Guerrilla filming mode to shoot two short films for the heck and fun of it within the HQ. On my return from work on Saturday evening, I found the HQ - my humble hut, had been converted into a studio. The closet was flung open to get characters’ dresses, the kitchen for makeup, all bulbs in the house were now at a weird angle… I guess for lightening effect, I’m still trying to locate my dining table (where are you?), the rose bushes now protrude at some weird contrived angles and for the first time, the quiet HQ was served a notice by the neighborhood for breaking the peace.

QUIET??? Hell no… it was one rocking hell of a place to be. On my return in the evening, it was a pleasant surprised to see what the guys had done… a short on PFC…. :) Check it out… it was conceived, written, shot in a matter of 2 - 3 hours, after which sometime was spent on editing it…

The camera as usual was handled by Saurabh Dixit, without whom nothing can get shot in California.
The cast is made up of OM, Vijay and Striker
Editing done by Vijay

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39 Responses to “When PFC-USA went Guerrilla mode”

  1. ravptor on June 25th, 2007 5:41 am

    Awesome!!!

  2. Vivek on June 25th, 2007 6:39 am

    wow…it could be a nice ad for PFC. Good jobs PFC team!:)>-

  3. Anurag Kashyap on June 25th, 2007 6:44 am

    ha ha ha.. cheesy,, with some very bad acting from om.. men in black were awesome.. so is this the first official ad for PFC.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    love the attitude.. tag line should have been “we will F@$* U”

  4. Anurag Kashyap on June 25th, 2007 6:48 am

    or WE WILL PuFC YOU

  5. vasanbala on June 25th, 2007 7:36 am

    vijay you almost pulled off a Mohanlal..proud of you superb superb superb….

    “why do you have to do all this aaai!!!”

    “yeverything we have found out”

    kalakitai maccha…..

    Striker an audition tape for RGV??? accha hai accha hai….”INSPIRASION”

    Om confess were you actually going thru the motions over the potty???? kidding :d

    great job….Coming Soon from Mumbai PFC. Waiting for VP Asia Pacific Kartik Krishnan to fund the film…KK kahan hai tu yaar…

  6. anand on June 25th, 2007 7:49 am

    great work guys…

  7. kartik krishnan on June 25th, 2007 8:01 am

    Striker - slightly over for me :-) looked rehearsed and not natural

    Vijay - hmmmm

    OM - u rock maaan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing … tooo good to see u in such a role. Maza aa gaya

    The ad was toooo good.

    Was missing OZ :(( :(( :((

  8. OM on June 25th, 2007 8:40 am

    Hahah….omg…it feels sooo awkward…what a horrible actor i am….esssshhhh…It was fun shooting it all though….Can you belive we had 17-18 takes for this one ad.

    AK…can i get a role in you new film? ;)

    hahaha….Vijay rocked….

    There was this one dialog where he says…” Why are you doing all this naughty bizzness” damn cheesy and hillarious…but, we fucked up with continuity in that one , so cudnt put it in the last edit.

    There is nothing like failure…only learning processes

    KK…oz is in the next short….hold your breath

  9. striker on June 25th, 2007 8:49 am

    kk i blame the editor.. hehe.. jk.. like OM said, we had a few other good shots of each of us, which didn’t make it past the cutting floor due to continuity glitches.. but a film like this is best done cheezy.. so i still stand by it :) maza aa gaya! [fun came went]

  10. oz on June 25th, 2007 8:49 am

    Thanks Guys.

    KK, I had to do OM’s role in the second film cause he was too drunk and couldn’t get his two lines right.

    Anurag, very cheezy tag line. please see me after class.

  11. Honhaar Goonda on June 25th, 2007 8:51 am

    There should have been that Nana Patekar’s dialogue “deemak ke peeche marna nahi…..” (- something like that) when Vijay slapped you.

    Striker had a great opportunity…. to give you a solid slap! Consider yerself lucky.

  12. OM on June 25th, 2007 8:53 am

    btw…Saurabh is amazing….so full of energy and always ready to experiment….it is such a pleasure to work with Saurabh…constantly on the roll and keeps encouraging all the time….

  13. OM on June 25th, 2007 8:54 am

    @HG bhaiyaa…i got hit so many times..that their was point when i said ” Mein Kaun hoon? Mein Kahan hoon?”

  14. Honhaar Goonda on June 25th, 2007 8:55 am

    Are we going to get see the bloopers? I know it is only 90 seconds long, but there must be some bloopers…

  15. Vijay on June 25th, 2007 8:59 am

    Tons of bloopers. Not sure how much of it I digitized onto Oz’s computer. Saurabh has the tape with all of them.

  16. striker on June 25th, 2007 10:02 am

    guys, three cheers to saurabh, fenderbender, and t! for being the behind-the-scenes backbone in this shoot.. awesome support system =D>

  17. Tushar on June 25th, 2007 11:06 am

    wow! balley balley!!:d/

    Saurabh, OM, Vijay, Striker puttar n OZ!
    kya baat hai yaar! mazaa aa gaya!! very good, glad to see the engines fired up now, now there is no stopping.

    Saurabh, you can finally say you guys do something productive too when you gang up :)
    and ya, very well shot, give more details about the finer aspects if you can.

    Striker, kya baat hai yaar! you do all the ‘Hero’ bits with ease, cant wait to see more of your stuff.

    OM Bhai, terrific act, very natural.

    Vijay Bhai! aapki screen space ye dono kyun khaa gaye!!:-w

    amazing stuff guys, it reminded me of a scene from Jodi No 1 though, except that it had lots of ‘beating up the guy on the pot’ involved :d

  18. Vijay on June 25th, 2007 11:17 am

    @Tushar, kya karein yaar? Editor saala mere saare ache scenes kaat diya. Bahut harami aadmi hai. [Editor brother-in-law my all good scenes cutting. Very bastard man]

  19. Tushar on June 25th, 2007 11:26 am

    lol…you sound like some actor working with Akshay Kumar! they also complain the same.

    btw, I just saw Editing is credited to YOU!

    ye kya gadbad ghotaala hai!!!:o
    (what this chowmein-spaghetti is)

    but loved the way you walk out, perfect build up for the punch to come.

  20. Surendra Hiwarale on June 25th, 2007 12:11 pm

    Achcha, toh bachchu film bhi banayi gayi usss kaali raat ko??? LOL… hehehehehehehehe…. Mogambo bohot khush hain…

  21. atray on June 25th, 2007 2:43 pm

    Passion reaches to toilet for cinema…devotion for cinema.. really composed..what a flush man.;):)>-

  22. Vijay on June 25th, 2007 3:29 pm

    Did anyone catch the references?

  23. striker on June 25th, 2007 4:28 pm

    some behind the scenes trivia.. we even made fun of anurag.. there was a scene where OM puts a cigarette in his mouth while he’s nervous, and i grab it out of his mouth and vijay says “noooo smoking”.. it was such a hilarious shot.. unfortunately it was one of the few shots that fell victim to continuity errors :((

  24. Saurabh Dixit on June 25th, 2007 5:03 pm

    Ha ha ha ha lol

    Great edit Vijay bhai…

    Finally I managed to reach San Jose after a long 18 hrs journey from LA. I think I and febderbender can go for some book of records for the longest journey between LA to San Jose.

    Now back to movie. Great work everyone… OM, “Yeh kya ho raha hai” was best in the first take, but you did a good job considering first timers. :D

    Vijay Bhai…maza aagaya, both edit and acting. I still dont know what was the continuity problem.. Let me know ppl.

    Apna Hero Striker…It was a great fun to shoot ya Man…This is was a bit too formal..lol
    Loved it man, you will sitting with Mani Sir very soon. ;)

    Thanks a Tonne to OZ Studios and suppliers and also to still photographer on set t!.

    Good job all.

  25. Saurabh Dixit on June 25th, 2007 5:16 pm

    @Tushar

    Dude, the weekend was awesome. Most productive pfc weekend ever for me. Mazza aa gaya yaar. (Loved it)

    Thanks to OZ and t!’s great hospitality… we were like on the sets…. framing, shooting and then in between of the shots, oz serving drinks and snacks to the film crew. ;)

  26. FenderBender on June 25th, 2007 5:52 pm

    Awesome!! the final cut looks great!
    Vijay - amazing job with the editing and the acting :)
    Striker - kya baat hai! simbly koooool
    OM - thoda kam peeta to aur ek film mein aa jaata mere SRK ;)
    Saurabh bhaiyaa…great job with the camera (even on I-5 ;))

  27. Mainak on June 25th, 2007 8:09 pm

    Damn!
    If only i didnt have rent to pay…. if only i didnt have food to eat…. if only I didnt have beer to drink…if only I didnt have gas to fill my car with…. I wouldnt have been working that saturday night while you fuckers were rolling on!
    But it was great fun…
    Cant wait for Vijay to finish the green screen thing & finish strikers film.
    Today was great fun too.
    Me striker & Oz saw A MIGHTY HEART. There are movies which are not the best movies ever made. But when you see them you know this is the best that can be done with it. It cannot be done better. Loved everything about the film. Winterboom is definitely one of my favorite filmmaker right now. Watch NINE SONGS to know why :)

    ********

    Last Film - A MIGHTY HEART (8/10)
    Music - PETER GABRIEL
    Book - THE GAME

  28. Vijay on June 25th, 2007 8:35 pm

    Tereko thread aur post hijack karne ka beemari hai kya?

  29. Manjeet Singh on June 25th, 2007 9:00 pm

    was fun watching!! The dialouges seemed to have come from RGV school..liked the editing..good job guys!

  30. Machchar on June 25th, 2007 9:16 pm

    Haha! Well, Forget the movie, I enjoyed watching the typical desi faces and their accent more!

  31. Honhaar Goonda on June 26th, 2007 2:18 pm

    (just testing)

    http://tinyurl.com/22ktc9

  32. rinxz on June 27th, 2007 5:45 am

    so he gets caught red-handed over his pot!!! shabaash
    (A great metafor for all the idea-chor’s out there - sandaas bhi aaraam se nahi kar paoge!)
    Thankfully he flushed!!
    Loved the tag-line.

  33. Vikas Borwankar on June 27th, 2007 2:00 pm

    Aite then,

    This is some first piece of official work done by my bro OM and his team. Though there are some lurid acting skills displayed by OM, the theme looks gr8.
    And believe me guys I’ve seen OM perform ever since i was a child, and believe me, he can do a much better job than what he has done here. And the MIB were gud, especially the Sunglasses guy, gud job dude……And OM im expecting some gud work from u the nxt time aite……

    Peace out PFC’ites

  34. namit Kumar on June 27th, 2007 7:35 pm

    Excellent job Bhai your video is too good

  35. fourthwall on July 1st, 2007 2:34 am

    Did anybody see this week’s ‘The Week’ magazine with cover story “Online Communities - The Good,Bad and Ugly”.PFC is featured in the cover story along with the likes of Orkut,Yahoo,Hi5,Minglebox.

    Congrats Oz and PFC Gang.

  36. t! on July 1st, 2007 8:12 am

    fourthwall,

    Can you provide a link to the story? I looked for it on the Internet but it doesn’t mention PFC…

  37. Machchar on July 1st, 2007 12:07 pm

    Link

    That is the story, but there is no mention of PFC there?

  38. fourthwall on July 2nd, 2007 9:59 am

    t!,Machar - Its published in the Print version of the magazine.Sent the photos to Oz.
    Oz,can you upload the photos?

  39. oz on July 2nd, 2007 10:03 am

    here they are fourthwall and much thanks for sending in the pics!

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