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A tête-à-tête with filmmaker D Sandeep R on his debut `Hyderabadi' gangster flick
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Sandeep is confident and raring to go.
APPROACHING FILM biggies with a script is a thing of the past. Making a short portfolio film is a better deal. Especially if you are a pro in graphics, animation and multimedia. Twenty eight year old D. Sandeep R decided to do just that . His thriller Chay Feet Neechay is a 45-minute advert of a future, regular length dark comedy, selected for the forthcoming Hyderabad `I' Film Festival.
"Imagine if you are buried alive. Time is crucial at that moment. And you have to help yourself. It is about salvation," explains the young filmmaker about the funda behind the title during the preview of the short film last week at Rama Naidu Studio.
Chay Feet Neechay is a gangsta flick that packs in all the underworld glitz — gang wars, Dubai links, filmy connection and a super cop on trail, all this with a Hyderabadi tang. Ever heard of a don fixing a one-by-two peg? "Hyderabad is not the same any more. It is developing very fast. You find people speaking Hindi here as much as you would in Mumbai. As a dialogue writer I had to put forth the same as also retain the local Deccani essence," says Sandeep citing the match fixing sequence in a typical Hyderabadi jargon in the film.
Incidentally the film was entirely shot in the twin cities. "I don't believe in sets. I wanted the film to look real. Then there were budget constraints. We shot the film with palm mini DV and the film was completed on a home PC. We made the film with a modest budget of $ 275. It was not easy. The last six months taught me what I would have learnt in 5-10 years of filmmaking," he adds. And there were pensive moments. For instance, a chase sequence on the Hussain Sagar railway track. "We timed the shot in such a way that the train doesn't come on the track we were on for about 20 minutes. There was no going back. The exigency alternative was to jump into the tank bund," chuckles Sandeep.
Stills from thriller
Having worked with Yuva Vani English (AIR) on documentaries and later as a creative director with an MNC, he decided to follow his passion — filmmaking. "I like James Cameroon, Quentin Tarantino, Shekar Kapur, Ram Gopal Verma and Mani Ratnam. I want to show the film to Ram Gopal Verma since his taste is closer to gangster films," he says.
Plans ahead include taking Chay Feet Neechay to international festivals in requisite 30-minute format. And making regular length films. "Destination Hollywood. I want to look beyond the dancing around trees and skin show.
There is glamour in Hollywood also. But here, if you see the posters of spme films, all you can see is lust," he observes. As for his short film, it has received rave reviews and attention of film producers alike. Way to go.
SYEDA FARIDA
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