Meeting Harry (hari), director of HOLiDayz

 

Meeting Harry (hari), director of HOLiDayz

 I know this post has a 3 months phase shift! I was supposed to write this blog few months before… Anyways, better late than never :-)

   i have a pal, "maja maadi Abhi" or call him 'snabhi', the web savvy guy.

  he will surely be ranked among the top for internet abusing :-) F1raghu introduced him to me .. There was a cause; we came closer during our Album release "poorna dani". Let me blog another article about the album, now let’s stick on to this topic.

    so, in this story Abhi is already close to me, with daily dose of gtalk chats and few phone calls we were updated about each other. Once he called me and asked .. infact 'said' .. "maga, I have referred your name to hAri, a director making a movie called holidayz... the movie sounds interesting, try doing some lyrical honours to that movie; take his number n phone him - 9**** *****"; quickly i called up hari. Hari had done his home work; he had visited my website (www.somepoornaartfactory.com) and had listened to my tracks. It was like a known voice in our first conversation itself. Of course we took time to meet each other as he was busy setting up the office. He came to my house and then we discussed in my car about the movie! and then, guess what? we went to GandhiNagara to have our late night dinner! And then i went to the inaugural ceremony of Sumukha Combines; after a short gap, hari called to his office... (it was "his" office at that time, now if you ask me, i will say it is "our" office hehehehe);

       Hari is updated tech savvy director. He brought his laptop and handed over a word document having a situation. The situation was explained in English, no one would believe that hari has his schooling in a kannada medium after reading that document! anyways, i was actually asked to do some lyrical contribution at first, but our interaction increased as he involved me in story board and scene discussion and to my surprise he asked me to do the dialogues for the movie!! Now, i can say that i can answer in key-value pairing (match the following); you tell a number and i will explain the corresponding scene!!!  "ok vatsa, what is scene 12...?"; vatsa: "the scene goes like this ... blah blah blah blah .. hehehehehe"

Theatrical rehearsals for a movie? - holidayz continues

Theatrical rehearsals for a movie? - holidayz continues

 .. we all had a resonating mind set... the Holidayz team met the lead artists this Sunday (nov 02 2008). The Director (hAri) had a plan and the Associate (Rupesh) acted as a catalyst for his thought... it was noon when i completed working on the "mannerisms" .. yeah that’s right .. it was different to write about something which is not going to be reeled in the movie!

  i worked on writing the history, geography and other essential preludes for building the characters. i was made to give an insight into those characters for artists playing the respective roles. But, before even going to the artists the Director's department got aligned to get the same image of every character. And then it was a break for the lunch! Stuffing some fried rice into my dried stomach, i was all set with the team when artists flooded into our office. Introducing ourselves at the macro level we kick started the show. It was 1:1 in the beginning ... the artists were patient enough to observe my act and then mimic me in the beginning till they got into the comfort zone, then the director's board fine tuned for expressions.. This worked in tandem. it was almost 8pm when we winded up after having a team performance scene rehearsed. With some sweat on the forehead and a satisfied smile i walked out. Thanks to hAri again for giving me a chance to perform the roles which i had nurtured when i was writing the dialogues.

   While riding back home.. It was the glimpse of theatre rehearsals we used to have which came on to my eye lashes!

tracks n layers .. listening to my Holidayz !!!

tracks n layers .. listening to my Holidayz !!!
... though hectic it was a fun filled weekend!
Saturday morning I started for chennai, got into 14:30 (25th oct 2008) train [bangalore-chennai express] after getting into the bogie i felt bangolore's upparpet / chikkpet is scarcely populated... !!! yappa it was all men hands-up all around with stinking armpits :-( its a 6 hours journey and i was lucky to get a seat @ 17:30 !
My pal Shyam was waiting @ platform #1 when i reached chennai @ 20:40 .. We had yo-yo dinner at sangeetha .. and then he took me to his hostel room in Adyar where he studies .. its a forest with deer, monkeys and black bucks all around .. few nerds will be walking on the roads at late nights .. and people recognizes that place as IIT-madras ... till was almost 2am when we slept
.. and the morning sun rays hits the eyes (26th oct 2008) ... after all the daily chores we were at the light house ..
there we met the Director (Hari) and the Executive producer (Shiv) of my movie Holidayz!!!
they took us to the A M studio, but i preferred to visit a hotel first ;-)

they it was all sound all around .. Hari sir made me to listen all the raw tracks .... i felt the songs are competing each other. Guru Prasad (Music director) pitched in.. Dinesh (Sound Engineer) was patient enough to playback the songs on every request ....

that day, Guru was on vocals .. i was with the head phones trying to maek sure the pronunciation was approriate .. some how trying to contribute what ever i can for that movie in all aspects .... we got lunch from sarvana bhavan .. and then .. I and Hari started discussing the Dialogue portions and the screenplay of it .. either Hari was in a good mood or the i was fortunate .. he really liked hte sequence what i discussed with him .. later we met Keath the base-guitarist who is A R Rehman's team mate ! man ..! he is one professional dude! it was amazing to watxh him on the strings .. he filled the incompleteness of the songs ..!!
By 19:00 .. it was Guru who stood in front of mic to get some expressive vocals for a song .. it was a raw track rendering time from 20:30 ..
it was almost 23:30 when we completed dinner and started towards bengaluru .. . shiv drove around 100km and then it was me on his ikon for 100 more .. it was around 3am (27th oct 2008) .. i request hari and shiv to take a break for 10min .. but we all got up .. it was 6:15 !!! then .. shiv and hari dropped me to my home and a warm wish and a smile [happy deepawali :-) ] .. with a great weekend becoming a part of my history ... i was in the loo at home ... hehehehe