read it somewhere that some scientist
maybe Einstein or somebody said that if
you take a pen in a people and try and
draw an image which does not exist you
will not be able to do it try it you
will never be able to draw an image
which does not exist and the reasoning
was because we are hardwired with the
universe you know we are in sync with
the universe our mind can never come up
with an image or an idea which is not
existing in the universe try it sometime
what it says is that that anything and
everything we think is possible and it’s
true so I’ll tell you a little story
about my life which will connect to the
whole thing so I was born in a
musician’s family my father was a woke
list Hindustani vocalist my mother
happens to be the first lady tabla
player so the art was in the house
always and we were slightly different
from normal Indian families because
whereas in Indian families it is said
but Joe kakashi hatake you know don’t
watch movies my parents were great
lovers of movies so every Sunday we as a
family used to go watch two films one
morning show which is essentially an
Englishman and one evening show which is
a current Hindi fan and my brother who’s
10 years older than me he was in the in
the last phase of his school
and he was going to the college so he
had the freedom to see more movies watch
more movies in that week so he used to
watch two more movies so he used to
watch four movies and I as a little
brother used to hang around with him and
watch at least one movie with him so I
used to watch three films a week and I
was a great fan of movies I don’t know
what attracted me in movies maybe it was
a room without windows when it goes dark
there is a window which opens in front
of you and it’s it’s a window to a world
which has no limit so that thatx that
you used to excite me a lot so when I
was in sixth standard I came up with an
idea and I was you have to know that
where I grew up I grew up in Delhi and
then he had no connection with movies it
was not the film city it was not Bombay
and so the information available about
movies was very less whatever
information I had about movies was
through the tabloids and and the gossip
magazines but I had a little idea how
things are made so I told my friends
when I was in 600 I said that you know
we are living an ordinary life
or the real life of a school kid so we
can have a mission which is a secret
mission and we can make a movie and my
friends didn’t laugh at me but they were
excited
so they said is it possible I said of
course it is possible I knew the
difference between the still photography
and moving pictures that much I’m still
photography is of a single frame whereas
moving pictures
that’s like multiple frames 24 frames
now I know it that time I knew multiple
frames so multiple frames you you run
through a projector and it becomes a
moving picture so I told my friends that
my brother has a camera
which was called click 3 alpha camera it
was a still camera so I told them kisi I
can borrow this camera from my brother
all we need to do is buy rolls by the
negative rolls and if we collect enough
money and we keep buying rolls and keep
shooting it at the end of first year
second year third year whatever we’ll
have ample of rolls will join them
together and we’ll run through a
projector it was really a stupid idea
because films are not shot that way that
you keep clicking picture here and there
and then you join it and you run it and
it just starts running it was really a
stupid idea but my friends were as
stupid as me so they bought the idea and
I had this great chance and I actually
became the leader of the whole mission
so I enjoyed that power you always want
to be in that power so we used to get
approximately I used to get 20 rupees a
month as a as a pocket money so we tried
to save a rupee or two every month so
that the role Shadow Dada I guess must
be 2 rupees or two-and-a-half rupees or
three rupees I don’t remember exactly
but that was to be just thought that you
know if we collect one one rupee or two
two rupees every month we’ll be able to
buy rolls this dream continued for a
very long time primarily because we
never came to know how to shoot films
and secondly it continued because we
could never save money we used to eat up
all the money in the rest time so we
never had the money but we lived this
dream we live this dream then the story
goes this way that I by the time I came
to 10th standard or whatever by the time
I realized the movies are
shot that way there short with a special
camera and with a much bigger role and
it’s not multiple rules you buy and you
keep clicking pictures by then video key
and that was another that started the
solution for this dream that we can hire
a video camera but video camera was
really expensive because it was new and
I remember at that time when we were we
are talking about by the time I came to
thin standard my pocket money was 40
rupees but to hire a camera video camera
was thousand rupees a day you could only
spend it on a marriage you know before
you destroy everything in life you can
spend thousand rupees so we could never
hire a camera then I came to college and
a friend of mine said he sort of we are
not able to make a film primarily
because we don’t have money but there is
another factor that we have actually
never practiced it so why don’t we do
theater which is which has story
screenplay dialogues acting music
movement choreography everything it has
lighting sets what it doesn’t have is a
camera so he said that if we start
practicing and if we practice it enough
the day we will get our camera will
shoot a film and I started my journey of
theatre and very quickly I realized that
it’s a medium in itself and it is a
different medium than movies and so on
so on in life continued and that one
bream at 6 standard was lost as I
initially said that it was a stupid idea
yes scientifically it was a stupid idea
but today I’m so happy that people are
shooting films but with DSLR cameras
which are essentially still cameras so
when I thought that a film can be shot
wasn’t a visionary it is simply because
human minds cannot think beyond truth so
the idea is that everything is the truth
there is nothing called lie because lie
exists and anything or everything which
exists is the truth so follow the truth
and keep thinking [Applause]