Dipesh Jain | PRASHANTT RAI cinematographer

11 WEEKS

11 WEEKS is part of the official selection 2010 at Heartland Film Festival to be held at Indianapolis from Oct 14th-23rd.

I got a great news from my director early morning – Skywalker likes the rough cut of ’11weeks’, they loved the story and liked the visuals. and now they will mix the sound and make it sound like any other Hollywood biggie. This is a great news to come from Lucasfilms’ subsidiary company i thought [...]

11 Weeks – the film shoot. Part-4

…We were left with few shots to build the entire montage. It was 0930 and there were movements of local people. Some were curious others were apathetic to our presence. A small problem began when a local muscle man appeared from another lane and objected to our shooting there…

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’11 weeks’-the film shoot. Part-3

To be frank, we didn’t realize there was anything funny while we were slogging to get ready to roll. The humour was realized over a couple of drinks in the red light bar a few nights later with my rum-buddy – Sid, the production designer.

’11 Weeks’ – the film shoot. Part-2

…The crowd seems to have taken a softer line. I was back and we were taking random shots. This success filming continued till we ran into a fresh lot of people who shared the same language and expression of speech-making as the previous one…

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Kasmir Pics

trying to get through a really slow connection to upload pictures of Kashmir.

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’11 Weeks’ – the film shoot. Part-1

Srinagar greeted with a dry autumn and deserted streets. The tourists who thronged the markets and shikaras a few months back were missing. As a photographer I felt like the streets, the landscape too was barren, with a veneer of gritty yellowy dust all over compared to the lush greens three months back.

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’11 weeks’ – divinity divided

Divinity divided

I am waiting for a divine intervention for an end to all the problems in J&K that has been raging on and off for last 60 years. Just two months back when I was on location reccee with my [...]