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The movie experience now on a mobile phone

Staff Reporter

The 23-minute `featurette', touted as the first movie to premiere on a mobile phone, stars a sole actor, Rahul Bose.

CHENNAI: `A Handycam and a little spirit' is all it takes to make a movie for the mobile phone, said Saurabh Gupta, director of `Ctrl-Alt-Del'.

The 23-minute `featurette', touted as the first movie to premiere on a mobile phone, stars a sole actor, Rahul Bose.

Its title signifies the `rebooting' of a system and heralds a whole new way of providing the movie experience, he said.

Rahul Bose, on a video conference call from Mumbai to various centres in the country, said the short film explored love, loneliness and death in a modern mechanised society with disintegrating interpersonal relationships.

Making video content available on mobile phones would give people the chance to put their dreams and creativity in the public domain without relying on multiplexes or television channels and without commercial constraints, he said.

He expressed hope that this would enable the creation of a generation of young people who enjoy both mainstream and alternative content.

Mr. Gupta, who is also director of Phonethics Mobile Media and has previously made advertising and public service message films, said `Ctrl-Alt-Del' was shot over three days in the digital format, though making the movie took over a year.

The film has been screened to critical acclaim at three international film festivals, he said. Executives from Reliance Communications said plans for mobile film festivals and encouraging user-generated content were in the offing. `Ctrl-Alt-Del' would be made available exclusively to Reliance customers and can be viewed at a cost of Rs.3 per minute. Customers can also choose certain segments of the movie or interrupt the movie to take a call.

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