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Delay, Delay, Delay
28/11/07 21:52 Filed in: India
Well, due to unmentionable legal issues, casting has been thrown in turmoil for the project. Delays have been plaguing since the beginning, but it is not outside the realm of possibility that they won't start principle photography before I leave. I am rejiggering all of the effects so they work all in-studio green screen with the actors we have and hopefully they are cast and ready to go before the 22 of december. I have been doing odd motion jobs for the studio and pitching a few music videos to popular indian acts. We met with the Times of India music group and they were a bunch of very cool people. Enthusiasm is so apparent here... It's so different then the U.S. where everyone has an ego and the M.O. is just to talk shit about other design groups/ studios/ music studios. Everyone is genuinely excited to make music and movies and that is something I will miss. Everyone is genuinely excited to meet me and almost everyone has a shit eating grin at the prospect of making something as fun as movies, videos, and design. Hopefully this enthusiasm will keep with me.
This segways into the top 5 things I love about India:
5. Everyone is genuinely interested in meeting you. Even on the street.
People here just exude friendly curiosity. Even in Mumbai, where people are busy and used to meeting foreigners and too cool for school, this is but a small contingency in a friendly and awesome mass of people where almost everyone asks me my nationality, and my name, and what I do, and if I love India, etc etc etc
4. A decent bottle of Indian whiskey will run you about 160 ruppees, or 4 dollars.
There is an old joke about Indian bootleggers that goes something like: There is more Johnny Walker consumed in Bombay then is produced in Scotland. However, now that Johnny Walker is actually in India, producing whisky here, it may actually become legitimately true.
3. Freedom to do what you want.
Can you light off professional grade fireworks in the U.S. No? How about if you are 11? Nope? What if you blow off your fingers? No safety police here. You bought fireworks, you blew off your fingers, you now live life without fingers. No one get sued. It seems so simple.
2. Pav Bhaji
The reason I have to work out everyday, cause it would be gross for me to return from a country with 200 million starving people 20 pounds of blubber heavier.
1. Religion is beautiful and amazing here.
Rather then gross, oppressive, and worst of all, boring and lame, like it is in the states. Religion here from my eyes is varied, amazing, real, and beautiful. 4000 years of Gods are some damn old Gods.
of course, the next post will be 5 things I hate here.
This segways into the top 5 things I love about India:
5. Everyone is genuinely interested in meeting you. Even on the street.
People here just exude friendly curiosity. Even in Mumbai, where people are busy and used to meeting foreigners and too cool for school, this is but a small contingency in a friendly and awesome mass of people where almost everyone asks me my nationality, and my name, and what I do, and if I love India, etc etc etc
4. A decent bottle of Indian whiskey will run you about 160 ruppees, or 4 dollars.
There is an old joke about Indian bootleggers that goes something like: There is more Johnny Walker consumed in Bombay then is produced in Scotland. However, now that Johnny Walker is actually in India, producing whisky here, it may actually become legitimately true.
3. Freedom to do what you want.
Can you light off professional grade fireworks in the U.S. No? How about if you are 11? Nope? What if you blow off your fingers? No safety police here. You bought fireworks, you blew off your fingers, you now live life without fingers. No one get sued. It seems so simple.
2. Pav Bhaji
The reason I have to work out everyday, cause it would be gross for me to return from a country with 200 million starving people 20 pounds of blubber heavier.
1. Religion is beautiful and amazing here.
Rather then gross, oppressive, and worst of all, boring and lame, like it is in the states. Religion here from my eyes is varied, amazing, real, and beautiful. 4000 years of Gods are some damn old Gods.
of course, the next post will be 5 things I hate here.