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Hi...

A lot has happened in last few days... we have switched to .com to .in and that is going to affect us a lot. But, this change came because of our silly negligence. Something that happen when you are careless and stupid to forget to put a reminder. We lost our domain and had to buy a new one...

Well... we need your support. Please keep visiting us and make everyone know that its now www.thereelmag.in By the way... I hope you like the new design...

There is a good news... I have started making a fewq short movies and they will be available on: http://www.youtube.com/closingframes... let me know about your views

Love...

Sujoy Ghosh

Roo-ba-roooo | Team of Encounter | Golden Podium

1.            Is this your first short movie??

Siddharth:  No

Nitin: No, This is not my first short movie.. I have done a few movies before with different teams. But certainly this script was fresh and hence the experience was new to me.

Neha: YES. Actually my 1st act.

2.            How was your experience working in the short movie?

Siddharth:  Awesome. Best utilization of a weekend.

Nitin: The experience was amazing. It’s always good to do things that you are passionate about. Above all I could meet and know a few like minded people

Neha: It was great. Got to learn many things from the team.

3.            Any interesting incident during shooting this short movie?

Siddharth: While recording the statement - ‘Magar... phir bhi.. Majid saab to haath dhokar mere piche padhe hai.’ Everyone in the room would start laughing when I uttered Majid saab. Finally, I had to record the statement with no audience. I will never forget Majid saab, only name uttered in the whole movie and only character missing!

Nitin: There was a dog in the neighborhood who kept barking at us thinking that everything happening was real. Also the ways we were trying to hide the ORANGE part of the toy gun sent us in fits of laughter.

Neha: Actually there were many, but I found most interesting one when Sid was on road and one aunty passed by, I can understand how sid felt but he still got the courage to give a smile (as he had no other option :P) to her and aunty went laughing. Also I remember the Dog Horror :P 

4.            On a scale of 1-10; rate this short movie?

Siddharth:  4

Nitin: I would rate it as 7/10 since there is a lot of scope for improvement…

Neha: I personally feel the script was very nice the ordering of the scene, acting was also not bad so I will rate movie as 7 out of 10. That too just because the camera was not stable. But it was a nice effort.

Experience ‘Encounter’ | Golden Podium

Short Film: Encounter

Location: Mangalore, Karnataka

Encounter is my first short film made with few friends. The product came out to be better than what I expected and the response I got was simply amazing. Here is the story from backend...

We were 5 people who gathered at Bharath Mall (Mangalore). Me, Sid, Nitin, Neha and Gaurav. After the initial briefing we bought a toy-gun. We found a gun that was not fancy and could have passed on for its real cousin. However there was a problem. An orange handle that made it look like a toy. Throughout the shooting, Nitin tried hard to hide it... maybe harder than what Hrithik used to do to hide his sixth finger in his earlier days.

Then we found two locations. One in campus of St. Aloysius college campus and other in Lalbagh. The black and white portion shot in chronological order in the movie was shot in college while the color chronological one was shot in Lalbagh... It is the second one where we had all the fun...

There was a chase scene to be shot on road in the residential area. While we were doing a scene, a domesticated dog saw us and almost went wild. God, he was chained else what could have happened to Sid and Nitin is just imaginable. Moreover, poor Sid had to lie down on street as a dead body. Interestingly, Neha was more concerned about her bag getting dirty than Sid getting an insect bite. Anyways, the shooting ended well. Dubbing was going to be interesting...

In the story there is one character that has a name- Majid. Interestingly, he does not have a screen time. Now when the dubbing for a particular scene was going on, Sid was supposed to say a dialog that had this word- Majid. Every time he said, we started laughing. It was uncontrollable. Finally, I went out and Nitin also came and that portion was dubbed.

Shooting was fun and after hearing some good words... I am hi... Waiting for your response.

Written By: Sujoy Ghosh

Seven Pounds | The Critique

It’s a film that observes a character who is behaving precisely, with no apparent motivation. A good actor brings such a role into focus, as Will Smith does in the enigmatically titled "Seven Pounds." Who is he, what does he want, why is he behaving so oddly? And why is he looking for people who need their own favors? And so on. For much of the first hour he seems to be acting according to a plan that seems perfectly clear, but only to him. The reason it goes unexplained is that he has no need to explain it to himself, and no way to explain it to anyone else.

Will Smith displays a rather impressive range of emotional speeds here. He can be a tough, merciless IRS man. He can bend the rules on some cases. He can have a candlelight dinner with a beautiful woman named Emily Posa (Rosario Dawson) and go home afterward. He is angry with people sometimes, but he seems angriest of all at himself. It's quite a performance.

Dawson makes Emily not simply a woman confused, maybe offended, by his behavior, but a woman of instinctive empathy, following his lead when he needs to be treated like an IRS agent or like a perfect gentleman or like a man who needs understanding even if she doesn't know what she's supposed to understand.

I haven't even hinted about the hidden motives in this film. Miraculously for once, even the trailers don't give anything away.  Gabriele Muccino, who also directed Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness” is effective at timing the film's revelations so that they don't come suddenly like a U-turn; they're revealed at the last necessary points in the story.

Written By: Ali Naqvi

When Harry Met Sally | The Critique

 When Harry Met Sally . . ." is a story of two people and about how it takes them 12 years to fall in love. We're with them, or maybe a little ahead of them, every step of the way.

Harry meets Sally for the first time at the University of Chicago, when they team up to share the driving for a trip to New York. We see them only at those intervals when they see each other. They meet, for example, several years later and she's with a new boyfriend. They keep on meeting until they realize that they like one another, and they become friends - even though on their very first cross-country trip, Harry warned Sally that true friendship is impossible between a man and a woman, because the issue of sex always gets in the way.

There are lots of lines to quote when you're telling friends about the movie.  It's only occasionally that the humor is paid for at the expense of credibility - as in a hilarious but unconvincing scene where Sally sits in a crowded restaurant and demonstrates how to fake an orgasm.

Harry is played by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan is Sally, and they make a good movie couple because both actors are able to suggest genuine warmth and tenderness. She is an open-faced, bright-eyed blond; he's a gentle, skinny man with a lot of smart one-liners. Crystal is one of the rare actors who can make an apology on the screen, and convince us he means it. Ryan has a difficult assignment - she spends most of the movie convincing Harry, and herself, that there's nothing between them - and she has to let us see that there is something, after all.

This film is probably Rob Reiner’s most conventional, in terms of structure and the way it fulfills our expectations. But what makes it special, apart from the Ephron screenplay, is the chemistry between Harry and Sally.

Written By: Ali Naqvi