The View From the Other Side

Amateur Moviemakers as we may be, we still go to the length of auditioning folks for roles in the movies we make. We usually have these sessions when we start any big project, but keep notes on all auditionees so that we can cast them in the smaller, more numerous projects as well. Although there usually is a lot of fun and banter in these sessions, the core team members (Vibhor, Neeraj & me usually) do take the whole thing very seriously since these decisions taken here have a large impact on the quality of the movies made later on.

Chandrika auditioned for a role in The Movie Which We Never Made... and was selected, a couple of weeks before she left Bangalore for Higher Studies! (She was only the first in a long line of people to follow!) I hadn't visited her blog for a few days lately, and yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see a post on her auditioning session with us. It was very interesting for me to get a view of how the whole thing is perceived from the other side of the camera. Here's a link to her blog post on this.


For those who don't know Chandrika, she is also an amateur poet, as you can make out from her blog posts. The latest TIIMMC venture, directed by Neeraj, is based on a poetry written by her. Hopefully, I shall have a post on this movie here in a few days...