What better day than this?
This is not really my new year resolution. I have been trying to build this wordpress thingie for about 2 weeks now. Having grown old and senile, its taking me more time to get around the coding and stuff. 8 years ago I was so much more efficient and quick, I built a basic HTML site all by myself.
I had a great time last night, I was with my new friends, all who made their entrance in 2009 and it looks like they will be there till the end. Shachina and her man hosted the nice little party in their house. They were for the first time very considerate about non smokers, so I didnt have to suffer much. DP took extra effort to get non alcoholic stuff exclusively for me. Shreyas gate crashed. Lots of noise and food made the event memorable.
On the work end, wonderful start. Wrote a lot for my new movie. The detailed screenplay of the first 30 mins of the movie got done today. But then Yogaraj and me have this real bad (actually good) habit of doing reworks. I am sure when the movie is finally done, only about 25% of whats written today would finally make it to the screen. But thats what we both enjoy. Hoping to be done with the rest of the screenplay in the next 3-4 days.
Tomorrow is the 100th day of screening of Manasaare. Last year this time, it was just a small talk. Yogaraj and I had simply discussed about a character who would be taken off to an asylum by mistake. I said we should work on it, and he said ‘do it’. That small little thing led to a wonderful journey. In my biography you will see that in 2009 there is just one work that i have produced and that is Manasaare. I am glad I put in the entire time in just doing that. It has taught me things that no film school can ever teach. A big thanks to the audience who accepted our thoughts and enjoyed the film. In a week or two it will be out of the theatres i think, the prints will be all sealed up in boxes and stored up in a dingy room. And it will stay there forever (till 2012 for sure).
To conclude, I’d like to thank 2009 for enriching my professional life, i’d like to apologize to people whom I have hurt. And I’d like to thank a certain someone for stepping in.
And if you are lucky, I will post regularly starting today.