I was watching one of my favourite movies today ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’. I think I first saw the film in Bhopal at the EME center officer’s mess there. Most of my early exposure to Western cinema was in the army or at the Gymkhana clubs at the open air theaters. The officer’s mess had a huge collection of all the army and war films. All the ‘Navarone’ films. Dirty Dozens and Nazis and the Japanese and anything with planes. Of course there were all the real Westerns where I got introduced to all the Clint Eastwood films and guns and the American outback.
I remember seeing ‘Top Gun’ in Udhampur at the EME workshop there. A fresh NDA brat suggested it to me. I never saw the air show the same again. That was the time I saw ‘Air America’ and some obscure war films that I have not been able to find again. There was even a healthy collection of patriotic Bollywood films from Manoj Kumar Classics to some modern day films.
When the sergent tells Mayo ‘Get into your fatigues Mayo, by the end of this weekend I will have your DOR’ I cannot wait to watch the following scene.
Today I make films myself and it’s amazing how one goes from watching films to making them. My alternate realities.
I am looking for a producer who ‘gets’ my vision and I get closer everyday. It’s been a rather interesting few weeks trying to explain my vision to people here in Hyderabad. Sometimes I feel they undrstand everything and just don’t want to take a chance and sometimes I feel they have no clue what the hell I am talking about.
When you are a clearing for a film, you want to fill it so badly and yet, you have to hold the space to get it done the right way. It takes so much patience and positivity to do that. That is where I spend so much energy. To keep myself as a clearing.
Luv,
Aparna
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