Rescheduled Indoor Shoot

12th June, 9 am.

Update

Good news and bad news, successes and failures:

• We have found a Mitra.
• We have to let Soumitri go cos she has to join her job in Delhi in July, but Prakriti is taking her place.
  
• The two names rhyme (random).
  
• We had a very successful and exhausting outdoor shoot on the 27th in Howrah.
• Music rehearsals are going well, recording as planned on the 1st.
• Production team did a helluva good job getting stuff together for the indoor. Thanks and much, much love. Especially Mirna and Beanie.
  
• Production team also did an amazing job on looking for set material last Saturday. Thanks Uttaran, Dana and Arnab.
• We did not manage to have the indoor today due to certain weird mishaps. But this might be a blessing in disguise as the art director will be back by the the next possible date and also the casting has changed (see above) ... so we might have had to reshoot if we did it today.
• I will announce the date of the indoor shoot as soon as I know it from Debolina and PC, the two key players in this.
• I am happy with the way things are going, I hope the team likes the new Mitra and Nama.
• We will miss Soumitree, so lets tell her that with an evening out before she leaves for Delhi.
• Much love. And small production meeting tomorrow at 7pm in Theatron room.
  

Men's Costumes

Fergusson College students, Pune - 1940s.

Confirmations??

1. The Music Recording:

• Is now on the 1st of June at Nagen Studio College Street at 10 a.m.
• A full rehearsal for this will be on the 23rd of May at my place at 11 a.m.
  
• I will also confirm who needs to be present at the recording. One or two people, because it's a small place.
• Anyone interested from the team can come to hear the rehearsal. Someone needs to dictaphone the rehearsal.
  
• Slight Change: We are not giving out the CDs till the final soundtrack is ready.
  

2. The Shoot

• Indoor cannot be on the 3rd, since PC is going to be away that weekend. She told me today.
• Debolina has confirmed that she is free for the indoor shoot on the 30th. We will discuss this in the next meeting - but 27th and 30th are the only two days on which Debalina is free that week. So we dont have much of a choice.
  
• We will go ahead with the preparations for the shoot as planned.
• 27th we should have the outdoor. I dont think we will need to many people, and it involves walking in the sun and waiting in it - so think about it. Not compulsory in the least, even for stills people.
  

* Red stands for confirmed.

More Posters

Arnab has sent in two P. C. Barua posters. Interesting colour tones. Have a look everyone. Costume team could also take note of the style of Kanon Debi's blouse.

Tentative Rehearsal Schedule

Till 3rd June:

1. 21st May evening Monday: Golpark
2. 23rd May evening Wednesday:
3. 24rth May evening Thursday:
4. 27th May afternoon/evening(4pm - 8pm) Sunday :
5. 30th May evening Wednesday:
6. 31st May evening Thursday:
7. 1st June evening Friday (maybe):
   
8. 3rd June afternoon to evening (3pm-9pm) Sunday:

* All evening rehearsals 6:30 to 9:00 pm. I will confirm the venues.
* Might not need everyone everyday. Will let the actors know, but keep yourselves free as of now. If there is a day on which you particularly need to be off, let me or Dana know well ahead, so we can plan accordingly.

Till soon, love :)

Bills

Slight change in the required format of the bills submitted to Dana.

• Must have date.
• Should have the name 'Theatron' and not my name.

Thanks. Lurve all

Long Term Schedule

For Actors:

Lines ideally by:
10th June: Nama, Dehlvi
20th June: Pandey, Mitra, Bapu


Blocking Completed by:
End of June


Whole of July:
Detailing, Characterization

First Run Through:
6th August
Straight run-throughs till the techs.


Show:
End August


Production Crew:

First Deadlines:

Rough Draft Drawing of Proposed Set for Blocking along with Rough Budget to be Submitted to Theatron: 31st May.
Audio Visual Track Dump: 15th June

Holiday!!!! :) :)

I am off from the 4th to the 9th of June. So the actors can go on a break. But let's all continue to do our homework on the script. Also good time to learn lines.

As for the production crew, sorry guys, Dana is in charge - so I can't declare a holiday (!!!!) for you too. :P

Film Posters of the Time

Shoot Preparations

These are our immediate requirements, as I see it so far:

Things we are stuck for:

1. Nama's nosering
2. Old ladies' cycle


Things we must buy:

1. Nama's wedding jewellery
2. Light bulbs
3. Pastel Paper, butter paper, thermocol, black cloth
4. Wires, extension chords
5. Bottle of dexorange
6. Drip tube
7. white leucoplast

Things to be made:

1. Nama's wedding headband
2. Makeshift lights for shoot with material mentioned above

Things to be procured/gathered:

1. Old badminton racket - Athena
2. One white sheet for the bed that can be dispensed with forever - ??
3. White saree/black border - Mitra - ??
4. Mauve Marathi Saree - Mitra - Nandini
5. Red Marathi Saree - Nama - Trina
6. Heavy silk - Mitra - trina
7. Two puff-sleeved blouses - dana?
8. Clutch bag - dana
9. Gogol's boots
10. White socks - Nan
11. Hairpins, net, make up - dana, trina
12. white kurta, pajama - Joy
13. Mangalsutra - Dana

• Who takes charge of food for everyone on the day of shoot? Money to be taken from Dana, bills to be given to her.
• All sarees to be brought in Monday
  

• we must fix a day when we shop
  
• a day when we make the lights and headband.

Deadline for all props to be ready for shoot: 1st June by evening ?? Is that okay with you guys?

Dana: I dont want the list of images to be up here. So dont put the Excel up, but do send it to everyone. If I have missed anything - add it here.

Love, Everyone - All for now

And Guys: Good Work on the Research - even my father is impressed and that isnt easy to do!! So thanks. And We're Rocking !!! as Dana puts it.


P.S: @ Mirna: We will see what the colour tones of the sarees look like on the phone shots tomorrow and then take a call, ya? Let's just bring all the possible sarees in kal. Tarpore we will decide which saree goes for which shot. The only saree I am sure about is the black and white so far. Accha also baby, let's not discuss/give out our images here. will email or call you today. Lurve.

The Credits Roll So Far

Playwright: Vijay Tendulkar
Translation: Salil Bandyopadhyay


Director: Trina Nileena Banerjee

Production Manager: Dana Roy

Art Director: Abhijay Gupta

Publicity Management: Nandini Das

Photography: Debalina

Music and Vocals: Sudeshna Dutta Chaudhuri


Research Team: Uttaran Dasgupta
Assisted By: Arnab Banerji, Nandini Das, Ritam Sengupta, Abhirup Dam


Production Team:

Music: Athena Mondal
Assisted By: Mirna Guha, Abhirup Dam

Sets: Abhijay Gupta
Assisted By: Uttaran Dasgupta
Arnab Banerji
Dana Roy

Stills: Aditya Vikram Das
Assisted By: Abhijay Gupta
Ritam Sengupta
Uttaran Dasgupta

Props: Dana Roy


Costume: Mirna Guha
Assisted By: Athena Mondal

Publicity Assts: Aditya Vikram Das
Abhijay Gupta

Others: Aniruddha Maitra
Joyraj Bhattacharjee
Shuktara Lal
Sunayana Roy


Cast:

Mitra: Dola
Bapu: Joyraj Bhattacharjee
Pandey: Arnab Banerji
Nama: Prakriti
Dehlvi: Abhijay Gupta



Advisors: Paromita Chakravarti

hurry up and join everyone else

Ok. I'd like to ask exactly what goes up here or does not go up here


From the Director's Desk: As of now, everything we need to discuss goes up here. But let's try not to give out any major conceptual ideas or visual surprises. Just go ahead and write, if anything needs to be taken down, I'll tell you.

Trina.

Identity

Issac Templeton is Uttaran by the way.


From the Director's Desk:

Heh, heh ... I figured. It's just that style you have, UDG :)

Trina.

Hello...I am on

Well, I have joined the blog.
Trina called me in the afternoon and asked me to see a old Bengali movie with Ashok Kumar. I checked out the language... there is not too much difference with the one we have in our script. Trina had told me earlier that her father had translated the play keeping in mind the 1970's. There are slight differences with the language of the 1940's. Like people would say geche instead of gache and aghe hna, instead of hna.
As far as the usage of English is concerned, it was quite common, though a little archaic. They would say things like a-begging, instead of begging. Also, we must be careful of words that came inot the language later.
I will be looking into all this.
Dana, I will be returning your book on Monday.
I shall be putting up the visuals a little later today.


From the Director's Desk:

We have permission to change the language as we see fit - add or take away words - from Salil Bandopadhyay.

I have made a list of words that we could include: we will work them in as we go along.

Arnab gave me this link today for P.C. Barua films, have a look guys:

upperstall.com/people/pcbarua.html

Films from the era...

I was talking to my father, and came upon some names of movies from the period, here are the names, some are easily available, in the JU Film Studies Dept. itself:

1.Mukti
2.Devdas
3.Alam Ara(Hindi)
4.Nouka Dubi
5.Chaddabeshi
6.Mejdidi(this one might be a later production)

My Pishemoshai apparently had a lot of K.L. Saigal LPs, I will ask him and make sure, whether he has them even now...
Ms. Director mam, I haven't got any of the stuff that you have mailed to the gang, could you please forward them to me again.


From the Director's Desk:

accha ei je Lost in Transience , tui ke ami bujhte parini ... is it Mirna? Please email me. Eishob enigmatic naam hebby bhalo jodi bojha jai je pechone ke heh heh.

I will try and get some of these films from the Film Studies Department and get back to you.


Trina

Book Cover

From the book cover. Rohini Hattangade as Mitra in the original production. And the man himself.

Amchi Mitra

Well, here you are guys. The very first post for our Mitra.

Tomorrow I will post some of our images. Uttaran, send me the ones you collected and I will post them. Or you could post them yourself when you join. The rest, please join and lets begin writing. Happy posting!


P.s: Sami asks why my Mitra is Smita. Well, first because ideally she should have played it. Second, Bhumika is our cinematic reference point. Sami please come meet us again.

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