I was just telling someone backstage and
they told me that you have to stay in
this red circle you reminded me of the
sense of where I’m supposed to shine I’m
in the spotlight there I have to go
outside to be in the spotlight works
like that it works things work very
weirdly for Indian filmmakers filmmaking
as you know is a collaborative art form
it’s not one guy’s game it’s not a one
person so which is why I am just going
to get you guys a little job to do I
would like you guys all are you paying
attention
yeah okay I suppose there is a same old
Bollywood scene which I’m making up
right now is it is said that is you
can’t tell a story of a film in one line
you should not waste your time and make
the whole thing so what I want everybody
to do is just those small beautiful
notebooks that everybody is given to the
tech people at the end you please take
them and on one page write a story close
to your heart in not more than one line
okay everyone should do it I am watching
okay and even do this through the course
of my talk it’s okay
this image is going to so stir your soul
it’s going to make you feel very deep
profound things things that you’ve not
felt in a long time
and it stay with you it possibly the end
of tomorrow that’s my dog so long so
long look at him he’s chilling it does
not know I’m using this photo look at
his face his eyes his paws destruction
war I think that’s primarily because
we’ve become slave to adjectives like
this one now I’m going to give you one
more assignment you should feel like a
college close your eyes imagine you’re
in a movie theater the smell of popcorn
wafts through the AC you’re watching
your favorite stars next film you’re
sitting there in anticipation the film
rolls you are willing to suspend your
disbelief and get absorbed in the world
of the motion pictures however you know
is life treating somebody like it was
pointed out earlier this is making a
life facebook video so why we are
studying one story they are completely
forgetting there’s there’s one more
playing right in front of us so the
question is are we paying attention I’ll
be paying are we listening carefully are
we really going into the world of the
film that we’ve paid I think the
thousand bucks watch what happens is
when you are distracted you end up
losing out on the big picture and then I
come back to my point of being locked in
at that place so I take this like
so–you the film is in the interval you
look at your boyfriend/girlfriend loved
one sitting next to you and you can see
of objective like amazing
average waste of time
masterpiece heartbreaking these are the
commonly used I take this I tell you why
this happens because we’re in a hurry to
tell people what we feel while we are
watching a film or why we are reading a
book or why we are listening to a song
we are running hurry to express and this
rush is why so that you can share it on
your Facebook in the smartest possible
way to get the maximum number of likes
in the face of these likes and the rush
for sharing things with people are they
loosening out in the basic purpose of
storytelling are we listening are we
paying attention are we absolutely
giving our hundred percent to the story
that is being told to us this Rush and
this race for Lights brings me to my
topic the internal structure of an
asteroid I am joking
[Laughter]
[Applause]
first thing about but you know good
place anyway my topic is the evolution
of story and I might as well start with
my own story I come from a city called
Oliver it is best known for a replica of
the Taj Mahal
that is how unoriginal it is and the
funny thing is that unlike most small
towns in India’s considerably in it
there is no sense of art there is no
sense of classical dance theater a
poetry nothing the only access to art
that you have is mainstream Bollywood
cinema which is what I fundamentally
grew up on which is I mean what I love
but before that I my first foray into
the world of motion pictures was through
a video library my uncle he owned the
video library this was this video like
what it was called sera sera video like
me now the sava stood for Santosh Anil
which is my uncle and my father Rekha
and Alka which is my uncle’s wife and my
mother now my cousins mine considered a
both called sorrow and sighted so
luckily for them they are maimed with an
S so they had a jolly good time pulling
my leg reminding me how my name was not
part of this library I was heartbroken
as a kid because I felt extremely left
help now instead of consoling me like
all sleeping students they kept pushing
me they kept making me feel bad about it
so at 4 years wearing those small bands
it was falling off my waist I looked up
at that board and I said if I can be on
the board I’m going to be in the store
with a film that I mean
[Applause]
thank you for that but that was a lie I
was just four year long story short I
was introduced to the world through a
little magic box
you remember these the corners there
nobody knows where there is a VHS
[Music]
so that also film which I repeatedly
watched with my siblings I’m sure nobody
none of you know about it that’s why
about Italy itself it’s a film about a
small boy who founds a book of magic
which is a neverending story now I think
somewhere though at that age I was
primarily interested because the fluffy
friendly dragon find the magic but I
think somewhere the concept of the film
opened up my mind to the possibility of
someone in a small town being able to
explore a world that is way out of his
age I’m sure it was subconscious back
then but it was a trigger my first
theatre experience as I remember was
watching sober as guy is Ram Lakhan now
I’m so I have seen films before that but
I remember this one clearly because I
went with my parents for a 3 p.m. show
and we had an old Lambretta and Richard
same thing just wouldn’t start I was
very excited to watch I will be money
couple of fan back then I wanted to
watch him dance to 1 2 before but the
scooter did start and I was heartbroken
my father tried really hard and he
finally got it going we reached the date
about the film it just started for some
reason that day I wasn’t looking at the
screen because of the whole ordeal
before the film I kind of started
looking and now these were days when
there was no national anthem or
advertisement was for Stella’s film
started on the time intervals were just
10 minutes long and so I started
watching the film and my attention went
to the stream of life that came from the
projector whom I turned back and I could
hear the slight word of the film reel
moving with the projector and right near
the glass window of the project I could
see particles of dust dancing almost
like they are dancing to the beat of
Anil Kapoor on one polka for
it was that way I think something
changed inside me I knew that day that I
was going to be a thick pinion for my
parents I was angered by the magic of
motion pictures
I didn’t know how projector work or I
didn’t know the science behind it but I
first sure felt the alchemy of the film
burning and creating an image that would
stay in front of our eyes it was
beautiful it was magical and it changed
my life so in a way I feel that that old
Lambretta Anil Kapoor and old movie
theatre were very instrumental in
getting me to stand here in front of you
as a working filmmaker it was only
poetic justice
that I did something about this this is
what I chose to do
[Music]
that was a sort for my first film Pune
52 it had my protagonist riding a
Lambretta
standing in front of a movie theater
that screaming on eeka buta film the
film was set in 1992 we started in 2012
I think and the theta that I show in the
film veteran did not exist when we shoot
the film but I had to have that title it
was somewhere important to me that I get
best shots and I think I think that is
the magic of filmmaking which also also
encompasses a serious stage in the
evolution of cinema which would effects
I had my visual effects team put a huge
green screen on an empty row we made
that to come on the Lambretta stand
there my entire production team my
research strength team worked day and
night to find high resolutions images of
the theatre so that they can recreate
them in an animation 3d format it took a
team of around 100 people working for
three months non-stop to get that one
shot which lasts three seconds in the
film that is filmmaking and I love doing
it but do you think it reaches the
audience it does not because people are
too busy looking at their mobile phones
talking to people next to them which is
again a part of evolution storytelling
is fundamentally two people talking it
must have started with one caveman
telling the other how he probably killed
a lion when he didn’t because that would
be a fact a story would be a you know
dammit I his version of a fact but
imagine what if the other caveman was
not listening what if he was looking at
a rock in his hand
storytelling would not have been born
probably that would have been the last
story ever told
the caveman being a caveman would have
taken the same rock and hit that one in
his head a luxury I unfortunately don’t
have but so what I am what I’m getting
at is storytelling is essentially to be
the storyteller and the listener the
evolution depends on both ways evoke
evolving together what is happening is
and I will speak strictly to films
because that is my area of expertise we
are evolving very rapidly from
single-screen theatres from the V CDs
and VHS tapes we went to V CDs then DVDs
and now we have films that can come on a
pendrive
similarly theaters from being single
screen experiences where there was no
national anthem no ads very to-the-point
interval people used to watch the film
it didn’t have any distractions while
watching the film they came out they
spoke about it they slept over it and in
the next day they told their family and
friends where the bass book was that
film or not this phenomenon is what film
business is fundamentally based on it is
called word of mouth now word of mouth
is transported within minutes
multiplexes have not just someone signed
a Bolton bottle but they have pieces
burgers muumuus and even that food that
they have recliners people have their
cell phone so on and within minutes of a
film ending the word of mouth is out
this will also change we already have
Netflix and Amazon coming in to Yvonne
to mark the next step of evolution of
cinema now people will not even go to
work they will just watch it on their
cell phone or in front of their home
theater this is evolving and this is
evolving because the end user the viewer
is changing the viewer has too many
distractions what was meant to be
essentially an entertainment business
where you make a person sit and make him
water
story has now become everything but back
you have declined us you have fast food
you have everything but the means to get
someone involved in a story now I’m not
saying technology is bad at all and in
technology is fantastic I think
technology is one thing that enables
filmmakers like myself to fight with the
same technology that that is against us
I think it makes us push the level of
our imaginations and you know without
technology we wouldn’t have this reality
your brain is over
[Music]
[Music]
imagine the same scene with the fluffy
dancer from the neverending story that
is what technology does it just makes
things better it gives us a chance to
evolve as filmmakers and storytellers
but this is just about filmmaking I
think we are all story levels we all
need to evolve and for that process to
be better I think we should start with
listening I think what we can do is when
we go back home and you know your mom or
dad says something to you the best thing
is keep that phone away when we go to
watch a film out of respect for the
people who are telling this story you’re
working very hard you can just try
putting it on airplane mode it’s not for
anybody else’s benefit it is just so
that you can absorb from that story it
is so that you can evolve as an audience
because no story is complete without the
listener like for you guys the stories
that you’ve written your masterpieces I
would like for you to give them to the
person sitting next to you just read the
story from your notebooks and give it to
the person next year here you’ve just
given your story to complete stranger
and you form the connection this
connection is the true evolution this
connection is a story and we are all the
storytellers thank you
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
they told me that you have to stay in
this red circle you reminded me of the
sense of where I’m supposed to shine I’m
in the spotlight there I have to go
outside to be in the spotlight works
like that it works things work very
weirdly for Indian filmmakers filmmaking
as you know is a collaborative art form
it’s not one guy’s game it’s not a one
person so which is why I am just going
to get you guys a little job to do I
would like you guys all are you paying
attention
yeah okay I suppose there is a same old
Bollywood scene which I’m making up
right now is it is said that is you
can’t tell a story of a film in one line
you should not waste your time and make
the whole thing so what I want everybody
to do is just those small beautiful
notebooks that everybody is given to the
tech people at the end you please take
them and on one page write a story close
to your heart in not more than one line
okay everyone should do it I am watching
okay and even do this through the course
of my talk it’s okay
this image is going to so stir your soul
it’s going to make you feel very deep
profound things things that you’ve not
felt in a long time
and it stay with you it possibly the end
of tomorrow that’s my dog so long so
long look at him he’s chilling it does
not know I’m using this photo look at
his face his eyes his paws destruction
war I think that’s primarily because
we’ve become slave to adjectives like
this one now I’m going to give you one
more assignment you should feel like a
college close your eyes imagine you’re
in a movie theater the smell of popcorn
wafts through the AC you’re watching
your favorite stars next film you’re
sitting there in anticipation the film
rolls you are willing to suspend your
disbelief and get absorbed in the world
of the motion pictures however you know
is life treating somebody like it was
pointed out earlier this is making a
life facebook video so why we are
studying one story they are completely
forgetting there’s there’s one more
playing right in front of us so the
question is are we paying attention I’ll
be paying are we listening carefully are
we really going into the world of the
film that we’ve paid I think the
thousand bucks watch what happens is
when you are distracted you end up
losing out on the big picture and then I
come back to my point of being locked in
at that place so I take this like
so–you the film is in the interval you
look at your boyfriend/girlfriend loved
one sitting next to you and you can see
of objective like amazing
average waste of time
masterpiece heartbreaking these are the
commonly used I take this I tell you why
this happens because we’re in a hurry to
tell people what we feel while we are
watching a film or why we are reading a
book or why we are listening to a song
we are running hurry to express and this
rush is why so that you can share it on
your Facebook in the smartest possible
way to get the maximum number of likes
in the face of these likes and the rush
for sharing things with people are they
loosening out in the basic purpose of
storytelling are we listening are we
paying attention are we absolutely
giving our hundred percent to the story
that is being told to us this Rush and
this race for Lights brings me to my
topic the internal structure of an
asteroid I am joking
[Laughter]
[Applause]
first thing about but you know good
place anyway my topic is the evolution
of story and I might as well start with
my own story I come from a city called
Oliver it is best known for a replica of
the Taj Mahal
that is how unoriginal it is and the
funny thing is that unlike most small
towns in India’s considerably in it
there is no sense of art there is no
sense of classical dance theater a
poetry nothing the only access to art
that you have is mainstream Bollywood
cinema which is what I fundamentally
grew up on which is I mean what I love
but before that I my first foray into
the world of motion pictures was through
a video library my uncle he owned the
video library this was this video like
what it was called sera sera video like
me now the sava stood for Santosh Anil
which is my uncle and my father Rekha
and Alka which is my uncle’s wife and my
mother now my cousins mine considered a
both called sorrow and sighted so
luckily for them they are maimed with an
S so they had a jolly good time pulling
my leg reminding me how my name was not
part of this library I was heartbroken
as a kid because I felt extremely left
help now instead of consoling me like
all sleeping students they kept pushing
me they kept making me feel bad about it
so at 4 years wearing those small bands
it was falling off my waist I looked up
at that board and I said if I can be on
the board I’m going to be in the store
with a film that I mean
[Applause]
thank you for that but that was a lie I
was just four year long story short I
was introduced to the world through a
little magic box
you remember these the corners there
nobody knows where there is a VHS
[Music]
so that also film which I repeatedly
watched with my siblings I’m sure nobody
none of you know about it that’s why
about Italy itself it’s a film about a
small boy who founds a book of magic
which is a neverending story now I think
somewhere though at that age I was
primarily interested because the fluffy
friendly dragon find the magic but I
think somewhere the concept of the film
opened up my mind to the possibility of
someone in a small town being able to
explore a world that is way out of his
age I’m sure it was subconscious back
then but it was a trigger my first
theatre experience as I remember was
watching sober as guy is Ram Lakhan now
I’m so I have seen films before that but
I remember this one clearly because I
went with my parents for a 3 p.m. show
and we had an old Lambretta and Richard
same thing just wouldn’t start I was
very excited to watch I will be money
couple of fan back then I wanted to
watch him dance to 1 2 before but the
scooter did start and I was heartbroken
my father tried really hard and he
finally got it going we reached the date
about the film it just started for some
reason that day I wasn’t looking at the
screen because of the whole ordeal
before the film I kind of started
looking and now these were days when
there was no national anthem or
advertisement was for Stella’s film
started on the time intervals were just
10 minutes long and so I started
watching the film and my attention went
to the stream of life that came from the
projector whom I turned back and I could
hear the slight word of the film reel
moving with the projector and right near
the glass window of the project I could
see particles of dust dancing almost
like they are dancing to the beat of
Anil Kapoor on one polka for
it was that way I think something
changed inside me I knew that day that I
was going to be a thick pinion for my
parents I was angered by the magic of
motion pictures
I didn’t know how projector work or I
didn’t know the science behind it but I
first sure felt the alchemy of the film
burning and creating an image that would
stay in front of our eyes it was
beautiful it was magical and it changed
my life so in a way I feel that that old
Lambretta Anil Kapoor and old movie
theatre were very instrumental in
getting me to stand here in front of you
as a working filmmaker it was only
poetic justice
that I did something about this this is
what I chose to do
[Music]
that was a sort for my first film Pune
52 it had my protagonist riding a
Lambretta
standing in front of a movie theater
that screaming on eeka buta film the
film was set in 1992 we started in 2012
I think and the theta that I show in the
film veteran did not exist when we shoot
the film but I had to have that title it
was somewhere important to me that I get
best shots and I think I think that is
the magic of filmmaking which also also
encompasses a serious stage in the
evolution of cinema which would effects
I had my visual effects team put a huge
green screen on an empty row we made
that to come on the Lambretta stand
there my entire production team my
research strength team worked day and
night to find high resolutions images of
the theatre so that they can recreate
them in an animation 3d format it took a
team of around 100 people working for
three months non-stop to get that one
shot which lasts three seconds in the
film that is filmmaking and I love doing
it but do you think it reaches the
audience it does not because people are
too busy looking at their mobile phones
talking to people next to them which is
again a part of evolution storytelling
is fundamentally two people talking it
must have started with one caveman
telling the other how he probably killed
a lion when he didn’t because that would
be a fact a story would be a you know
dammit I his version of a fact but
imagine what if the other caveman was
not listening what if he was looking at
a rock in his hand
storytelling would not have been born
probably that would have been the last
story ever told
the caveman being a caveman would have
taken the same rock and hit that one in
his head a luxury I unfortunately don’t
have but so what I am what I’m getting
at is storytelling is essentially to be
the storyteller and the listener the
evolution depends on both ways evoke
evolving together what is happening is
and I will speak strictly to films
because that is my area of expertise we
are evolving very rapidly from
single-screen theatres from the V CDs
and VHS tapes we went to V CDs then DVDs
and now we have films that can come on a
pendrive
similarly theaters from being single
screen experiences where there was no
national anthem no ads very to-the-point
interval people used to watch the film
it didn’t have any distractions while
watching the film they came out they
spoke about it they slept over it and in
the next day they told their family and
friends where the bass book was that
film or not this phenomenon is what film
business is fundamentally based on it is
called word of mouth now word of mouth
is transported within minutes
multiplexes have not just someone signed
a Bolton bottle but they have pieces
burgers muumuus and even that food that
they have recliners people have their
cell phone so on and within minutes of a
film ending the word of mouth is out
this will also change we already have
Netflix and Amazon coming in to Yvonne
to mark the next step of evolution of
cinema now people will not even go to
work they will just watch it on their
cell phone or in front of their home
theater this is evolving and this is
evolving because the end user the viewer
is changing the viewer has too many
distractions what was meant to be
essentially an entertainment business
where you make a person sit and make him
water
story has now become everything but back
you have declined us you have fast food
you have everything but the means to get
someone involved in a story now I’m not
saying technology is bad at all and in
technology is fantastic I think
technology is one thing that enables
filmmakers like myself to fight with the
same technology that that is against us
I think it makes us push the level of
our imaginations and you know without
technology we wouldn’t have this reality
your brain is over
[Music]
[Music]
imagine the same scene with the fluffy
dancer from the neverending story that
is what technology does it just makes
things better it gives us a chance to
evolve as filmmakers and storytellers
but this is just about filmmaking I
think we are all story levels we all
need to evolve and for that process to
be better I think we should start with
listening I think what we can do is when
we go back home and you know your mom or
dad says something to you the best thing
is keep that phone away when we go to
watch a film out of respect for the
people who are telling this story you’re
working very hard you can just try
putting it on airplane mode it’s not for
anybody else’s benefit it is just so
that you can absorb from that story it
is so that you can evolve as an audience
because no story is complete without the
listener like for you guys the stories
that you’ve written your masterpieces I
would like for you to give them to the
person sitting next to you just read the
story from your notebooks and give it to
the person next year here you’ve just
given your story to complete stranger
and you form the connection this
connection is the true evolution this
connection is a story and we are all the
storytellers thank you
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
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