Posted on: May 25, 2009 - 8:02 am

So here I am back in Mumbai. This time it’s a short spell and so I’m quite enjoying it. Mumbai and my experiences with the city are so terribly intense that beyond a point i start wanting to get out and go for a holiday. I think it has to do with the fact that in Mumbai all the people I know are from or related to the film industry. Actors, directors, musicians and so on. This means that there is no down time. Conversation, more often than not, centers around what’s going on in the film industry. Beyond a point it can become quite an exercise in navel gazing and hair splitting. Before I moved here, I used to love the intensity of being surrounded by film. Now it just seems too much.  And I’m left wanting to flee.

And so I am really excited about the fact that my company (Ekaa Films Pvt Ltd) is line producing a foreign feature film, besides the fact that I get to be on a set and not direct, I’m looking forward to being with a new set of people in a village near Ludhiana, on location.  The added advantage is that my next film is set in a village, and so I get to sit around in village and watch it and draw some visual references and other impressions.  Can’t wait to be on a set again and be near nature again!

In an ideal world, one should work eight months of the year and holiday for four months. Just live life on a holiday!