Fear - Update



People keep asking me. And today is the deadline we've set ourselves. Obviously we are missing it. Here's the update, however.

The project Bayam (Fear) is in full swing. Dinesh and I actually underestimated the casting process. We took a long time and a lot of deliberation in scripting and storyboarding and we thought casting can be done in two days. After auditioning some of our friends, we bitterly realised that acting isn't easy at all. Even I dabbled with it very briefly only to realised that I faired only slightly better than Nicholas Cage.

So we went around knocking the doors of various theatre groups and finally ended up at Koothu-p-pattarai (Folk Workshop), a Tamil theatre group funded by Alliance de Francaise. We auditioned a few and that was a lesson on casting. The actors keenly listened to the mock sequence, gave some suggestions of improvements and when we shouted 'Start', voila, they became our Bhavani and Subramani, the characters in the film! That afternoon we understood why the Al Pacinos and Sivajis are so revered.

Now the hunt is on for just one character left in the movie. KP didn't have actors for this requirement so we are back to trying out some of our friends. Nevertheless, the shooting date is 11th and 12th and post production could go on for a few more days depending on the studio availability.

We're keeping our fingers, arms and legs crossed. Watch this space for more.