Software Industry is in limelight for good and bad reasons. Rabi Kisku's indie will give you a closer look... thats what he commits in his interview. We are delighted to present Rabi who talks about his forthcoming indie movie...
1) Hi Rabi, Software Hardware... Kya Yaroon. A satirical comedy about IT world. Can you elaborate it? Is it more about the people or about the IT sector?
RK: It’s more about the people, IT industry or the software company is just the backdrop. When I first started writing the script, it was more about these various funny incidents that occurs in such companies when people from different parts of the country come and work together. All the inputs used to come from my friends who are working in these corporate offices. So I was trying to weave a story around these funny incidents. But I got stuck mid way and realized that there is no “connecting” factor where the audience would relate and feel for the characters. People would watch the movie, have fun and forget about it until and unless there is an emotional connection with the film, something people would relate to. And that will happen only if there is a connection with the characters. The writing became easy from the time I based the script on characters than plot.
2) Recently, social networking has been flooded with jokes on IT sector. Some of them are realistic and many are ignorant. How real is your take (in your movie)? Is it based on someone's personal experiences?
RK: We tried to make it as realistic as possible. In fact this movie is multilingual, you will see characters speaking in Hyderabadi Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Mizo, Bengali and Marathi. We knew we are targeting the techies, so the logics have to be right. Most of the scenes are inspired by real life situations. We didn’t digress away or try to create something which is superficial. Some of the characters are actually inspired by real life people. My co-writer ABR Narashima, who works in an IT company was instrumental in writing the Japanese part, their characterization, their social and cultural perspective of India. He had worked in Japan for two years on an onsite duty, so he could bring in his personal experience into the script.
3) Even a dull day in office has few moments. Making an indie movie will have innumerous. Can you share some such moments on sets of SHKY...
RK: It was like living on the edge every day. Except for me and another lead actor, it’s a first feature film for the entire cast and crew. You can imagine what kind of chaos was happening on the set. Everybody was tensed and nervous but thankfully, the average age of the cast & crew was around 25 years and since it was a comedy, it was easy to break the tension.
Since the movie was multilingual and so some the actors had to deliver their lines in one of those languages. They used to fumble and jumble up the words with different languages making it sound completely gibberish in the end. Nobody understood what the actors said, including the actors, making everyone in splits.
And then there was our production manager who also wielded the clap board. He had a problem in pronouncing the number ‘twelve’, which he pronounced it as Toll’. So whenever that number appeared in any of the Scene, Shot or Take sequence, he used to mess it up completely. The moment people hear him say “Toll”; they used to lose it completely. And end of each day we used to go through the rushes, there were lot of bloopers moments where we used to make fun of each other.
4) How are you planning to reach out to the audience?
RK: It’s an ultra low budget film, so we won’t be doing the conventional publicity. Mainly it will be through online virals, social networking sites, newspaper articles and theatrical trailers. We thought of having special screenings in some of the IT companies but we couldn’t get permissions. We are mainly banking on word of mouth publicity. If people like the film on the first two days, it will work for us.
5) Any comments for our readers?
RK: People are opening up for indie films, multiplexes have also started giving slots to small films, so if you find any indie film which looks interesting, then you should go ahead and watch it in theatres and not wait for the torrents. And if you like it, then you should write or blog about it or simply spread the news through word of mouth. If small (guerilla) films are able to get 50-60% occupancy, then multiplexes will not hesitate to take up more small films in future and in turn it will encourage more filmmakers to experiment and come up with new ideas. For the audience it’s like an investment, you are investing on talent; couple of years down the line, the percentage of good films will be much higher.
Team TRM wishes Rabi and his team all success...
1) Hi Rabi, Software Hardware... Kya Yaroon. A satirical comedy about IT world. Can you elaborate it? Is it more about the people or about the IT sector?
RK: It’s more about the people, IT industry or the software company is just the backdrop. When I first started writing the script, it was more about these various funny incidents that occurs in such companies when people from different parts of the country come and work together. All the inputs used to come from my friends who are working in these corporate offices. So I was trying to weave a story around these funny incidents. But I got stuck mid way and realized that there is no “connecting” factor where the audience would relate and feel for the characters. People would watch the movie, have fun and forget about it until and unless there is an emotional connection with the film, something people would relate to. And that will happen only if there is a connection with the characters. The writing became easy from the time I based the script on characters than plot.
2) Recently, social networking has been flooded with jokes on IT sector. Some of them are realistic and many are ignorant. How real is your take (in your movie)? Is it based on someone's personal experiences?
RK: We tried to make it as realistic as possible. In fact this movie is multilingual, you will see characters speaking in Hyderabadi Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Mizo, Bengali and Marathi. We knew we are targeting the techies, so the logics have to be right. Most of the scenes are inspired by real life situations. We didn’t digress away or try to create something which is superficial. Some of the characters are actually inspired by real life people. My co-writer ABR Narashima, who works in an IT company was instrumental in writing the Japanese part, their characterization, their social and cultural perspective of India. He had worked in Japan for two years on an onsite duty, so he could bring in his personal experience into the script.
3) Even a dull day in office has few moments. Making an indie movie will have innumerous. Can you share some such moments on sets of SHKY...
RK: It was like living on the edge every day. Except for me and another lead actor, it’s a first feature film for the entire cast and crew. You can imagine what kind of chaos was happening on the set. Everybody was tensed and nervous but thankfully, the average age of the cast & crew was around 25 years and since it was a comedy, it was easy to break the tension.
Since the movie was multilingual and so some the actors had to deliver their lines in one of those languages. They used to fumble and jumble up the words with different languages making it sound completely gibberish in the end. Nobody understood what the actors said, including the actors, making everyone in splits.
And then there was our production manager who also wielded the clap board. He had a problem in pronouncing the number ‘twelve’, which he pronounced it as Toll’. So whenever that number appeared in any of the Scene, Shot or Take sequence, he used to mess it up completely. The moment people hear him say “Toll”; they used to lose it completely. And end of each day we used to go through the rushes, there were lot of bloopers moments where we used to make fun of each other.
4) How are you planning to reach out to the audience?
RK: It’s an ultra low budget film, so we won’t be doing the conventional publicity. Mainly it will be through online virals, social networking sites, newspaper articles and theatrical trailers. We thought of having special screenings in some of the IT companies but we couldn’t get permissions. We are mainly banking on word of mouth publicity. If people like the film on the first two days, it will work for us.
5) Any comments for our readers?
RK: People are opening up for indie films, multiplexes have also started giving slots to small films, so if you find any indie film which looks interesting, then you should go ahead and watch it in theatres and not wait for the torrents. And if you like it, then you should write or blog about it or simply spread the news through word of mouth. If small (guerilla) films are able to get 50-60% occupancy, then multiplexes will not hesitate to take up more small films in future and in turn it will encourage more filmmakers to experiment and come up with new ideas. For the audience it’s like an investment, you are investing on talent; couple of years down the line, the percentage of good films will be much higher.
Team TRM wishes Rabi and his team all success...
2 comments:
WHEN IS THE MOVIE SET FOR RELEASE??
very soon de movie will be releasing
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