KVK FILM
30.06.08 / TAPE 5 / KPCL - MAILOTTI
DETAILS UPTO MINS
ROADSIDE FOREST SHOTS 4
EXTERIOR KPCL, CONTROL ROOM, ENGINE ROOM 23.45
HT SWITCH GEAR ROOM 28
CONTROL ROOM (MORE MONITOR SHOTS) 32
---- WRAP AT 8.10PM
01.07.08 / TAPE 6 / KPCL
GATE SHOTS, CAR PASSES GATE, UNDER CHIMNEY 14
---- LOCATION WRAP 10AM /
REACHED PASHCHIM HYDRO / KEMPUHOLE / 3.30PM
LARGE BLUE MOTORS, PEOPLE,, EXTERIOR, BUILDING,
SWITCH YARD, CONTROL ROOM 32
TAPE 7
CONTROL ROOM, SWITCH GEAR 11K, BATT CHARGE ROOM,
ENGINE ROOM TOP ANGLE 7.00
------WRAP 7.45PM /
HOTEL ASHRITA, SAKLESPURA AT 8.45PM
02.07.08
DRIVING TO NAGAPPATTINAM, MMS STEEL AND POWER PVT LTD UNIT – 1
REACHED AT 11.30PM
03.07.08 / MMS UNIT - 1
LONG EXTERIOR SHOTS, PAN FROM VILLAGES 14
(BLUE TONE)
GATE, SIGN BOARD, SECURITY 18
GAS ENGINES, GAS SWEETENING PLANT, RE-TAKES GAS ENGINES,
GAS SWEETENING PLANT CU'S 26
EXHAUSTS, RADIATORS, CHIMNEYS, INTERIOR ENGINE ROOM 32
TAPE 8
ENGINE ROOM TOP ANGLE (CAMERA VIBRATING), CONTROL ROOM
EXTERIOR RE-SHOOT 11
-----LOCATION WRAP 11.45AM
MMS UNIT – 2 / 3.30PM
EXTERIOR, TROLLEY SHOTS - ENGINE ROOM, CONTROL ROOM
SWITCH GEAR ROOM, TOP ANGLE SHOTS FROM ONGC BUILDING,
GATE SHOTS,
VIEW FROM THE FIELDS 25
VILLAGE SCHOOL, CHILDREN PLAYING, HOME PROVIDED
WITH TOILETS 27
------WRAP 5.50PM
04.07.08 / RVK, KONKEPUDI POWER PLANT / 4.30PM
CONTROL ROOM 32
TAPE 9
CONTROL ROOM, TOP ANGLE SHOTS OF PLANT, SUN SET, CLOUDS,
CHIMNEYS, SWITCH YARD, GRID CABLES, LIGHTS ON,
TROLLEY SHOTS SWITCH GEAR ROO
-------WRAP 8PM
05.07.08 (PLANT SHUT DOWN)
ENGINE ROOM WITH TROLLEY + WIDE ANGLE, STAFF, CU'S,
TOP ANGLE FROM OH-CRANE 33
TAPE 10
STATIC TOP ANGLE ENGINE ROOM 3
----- LOCATION WRAP 11.30AM
VIJAYWADA KRISHNA BRIDGE 10
06.07.08 / HYDERABAD / CORPORATE OFFICE
OFFICE ATMOSPHERE, PRINTER, BOARD ROOM 25
TAPE 11
VIJAY KUMAR, TANK BUND
-------SHOOTING SCHEDULE ENDS
This is being (b)logged a little late; perhaps more than a month late. on 20 June, 2008. i had gone for KVK Energy corporate film shoot to Chhattisgarh. Venu asked me to do this shoot. cameraman mahendra rayan, assistant mahesh and attendant sunil were part of the unit. the camera was digi-beta 790. flight from mumbai was at 9.30am.
flight generally was pleasant, but just before landing the airplane shuddered violently side ways. it felt like a boat pitching. due to this something went wrong in my stomach and i started getting a strong puky feeling. i started sweating too. i was fanning myself with a news paper as i felt the cold blower was not enough. i was seriously trying to understand this feeling. my mind went to problems of heart or stroke. my mind was functioning and it was checking all the parameters. finally after a while the sick feeling subsided; but my stomach was still tight. i picked up a nice health magzine from the plane. there was also a nice health article in the TOI, kolkata.
we were out of the airport in 20 min after landing. mr. reddy, our guide and contact was late. there was a Tata Safari for our travel to Korba. after loading i realised that the car was crammed for us all. two boys sat in front seat. back seat had 3 of us and camera. the rear was full of equipment.
all decided that we should get out of the city fast and try to reach a Dhaba during lunch time. the driver said he can do that by 1.30pm. i said it was fine. but we got to the Shere Punjab at 3.15pm. we all were very hungery. orders were placed. food was good. this place was at 'Chakar Bhatha'. we again stopped for tea at Pali around 5pm. it has been raining around here. driver was very knowledgable about this region. reached Korba at 6.30pm, got in Room#112. later tested the camera and loaded first tape. also checked the mike. shoot format 4:3.
at 8.15 had bath and dinner in my room. slept at 10pm.
21 June. we left hotel at 8am after breakfast. reached first power plant SVPL site. there was nothing. just flat land and some bull dozers and trucks. it looked very blank. also it was drizzling continuously. no work worth shooting was being done. but i created some shots and shot about 17 min length.
we moved out from here after 2 hours of shooting. next plant was LANCO. it was under construction in real sense. there was a lot of activity. the land area was very large and a lot of metal and other stuff was all around me. i climbed up a cement mixer that was not being used. it was as high as a 6 floor building. i took a lot of top angle shots from there. the rain was continuing. the ground was all slush. my shoes sank in wet mud a few times and got covered with mud. but the shoot here was quite good, due to the structure itself.
cameraman mahendra behaved badly by taking a different route after i annpunced 'wrap'. i had to carry the battery on me for nearly 2 hours. we reached the hotel at Korba at 8pm. by this time i was getting a spliting headache. i ordered cheese sandwich and milk, but could not finish it. i had no idea why did i get it. after some struggle i managed Aspro and popped 2 of them before sleeping.
22 June. again we had breakfast and drove off for the shoot of the 3rd power plant KVK Bio. this plant uses coal a well as rice husk for heating the boilers. got some good shots of coal on the conveyer belt and also husk being moved in trucks. mahendra on 2 occasions behaved very badly and i was sure that i was not going to work with him again. after taking the shot of the gate at 3.45 pm i called it a 'wrap' and we moved to Raipur. we were already carrying our personal bags along in the car.
reached hotel Simran (Room# 504) at Raipur at 7pm. Ordered Veg Pulao for dinner at 9pm. met Surendra, Venu's friend first time. he looked very different than i had thought. he sat for sometime and then left. i kept surfing the TV channels for long time.i felt all the movies on TV were very interesting. I watched Alag till 11.30. then my head swung due to strong wave of sleepiness. i gave in and switched off. but at 1am someone tried to open my door to enter. i was asking "wjo are you?" and he kept trying to turn the handle to come in. i called the reception and called Surendra too. some peope collected outside. i opened the door. Surendra said 'sorry' and then I again wnt to sleep. most likely some that was some drunk guy, who spoilt my sleep.
23 June. our flight was around 2pm. reached back mumbai and dropped 4 exposed, 2 blank tapes and lights-bag at the Provideo office at 5pm.
in the morning pranav and seema went to the hospital. chachaji and me were supposed to visit in the aftrnoon. but before our visit time one of the boy servants came running up and said "you both get ready, car is coming, nani has died." well this time the news was already here. i was sticking to chachaji. i walked behind him while climbing up or down the steps. he went in and came out after a while. he was crying. i made him sit next to me. he cried a little more, then started settling down. seema and me both walked in to see chachiji. she looked very thin. her mouth and eyes open just a bit. but her face did not have signs of any struggle. i mumbled to seema "poor thing, how much she suffered." she kissed her hand "i know."
dulari chachi was on her way from New Zealand. she arrived late at night, due to her the cremation was not done on the same day and was planned for next morning. harish seema and some friends started their actions on the hospital formalities and booking the cremation place. i left with chachaji and came back home.
people started dropping by to condole as the news spread 'person to person.'
morning of this day (19 July, 2008) chachiji had a very strong expression on her face. she sis not extend her hand towards me like the first day. as i spoke to her about who all are sitting outside to meet her, her facial expression became very intense. it said very painfully "i am sorry i have given everyone so much trouble. or how much of a bother i have been to all of you. due to my pathetic condition everyone has gone so much out of their way" etc etc
i could not see her saying all those things quietly. so this time i left even earlier, barely a minute later.
same afternoon a call was recieved by someone at home that chachaji and i have to go to the hospital, driver is coming to fetch us. we both thought that this was the moment. chachaji was very jittery. in the car i asked him to breath deeply to make him a bit relaxed.
we reached there. seema wa there too. she said "oh i said only papa was to come." but it was all fine. it seems chachiji wanted to see chachaji. he went in and met her.
later he told that i asked her a few things like "do you want to come home; to which she said NO. he said when seems asks the same question, she says YES. she says NO to everything i ask." i felt bad for him. but he said it with a sense of humour.
I have missed last Sunday this time, as my Chachi was not well. She has expired on 20 July. So missing one Quote Hanger is fine. Here are this week's better ones:-
-Putting ethics into practice involves courage more than conviction.
-When you blame and criticize others, you avoiding some truth about yourself.
-Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you have got it, you have lost it.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean.
-Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like Work.
-Change direction or you may end up where you are heading. -- Lao Tzu
If you don't find god in the next person, it's a waste of time looking for him further. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are only two ways to look at life. One is as though there is no miracle and other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
He was a wise man who invented God. -- Plato
When did I know I was God? I was praying and suddenly realised I was talking to myself. -- Peter O' Tool
The fewer the words the better the prayer. -- Martin Luther
You can out truth in the gravel but it wouldn't stay there. -- Clarence W Hall
A nation can't afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. -- John F Kennedy
Writing about values help us see our own follies.
i went to Faridabad on 17 July by rajdhani / had to / Pushpa chachi was not well / on 18th morning seema's driver was at the station to get me / i was home around 9.30am / had bath / at 11am Pranav took me and Shyam chacha to QRG Central hospital to see chachiji / he went in the ICU first for a few minutes / after he came out / i went in, as only one person was allowed at a time / chachiji was in all entangled in tubes / she was on ventilator and total oxygen support / she saw me and extended her had towards me / i took it and held it / she was happy to see me / i talked some incoherant stuff like, "you are very strong, very brave, you are doing fine, you will soon be home..." i knew there were remote chances of her coming home / she started getting very emotional listening to me / her breath became faster and that was not good for her / she turned her face side ways that said 'i should leave now' / she could not handle some of those words, perhaps the part of 'going home' / so i left straight away / that was at 12 noon /
me: where r u? why r u not in the room? on ur comp? why ur chat is not on? why r u not on chat with me? etc etc / zindagi ek sawal hai / ab sawal ye hai ki agar zindagi sawal hai to "?" kya hai?
me: kya "?" hee zindagi hai / kya zindagi ek question mark hai ya iski tarah tedhi hai / ...shayad dono /
result=zindagi ek tedha sawal hai/
Sent at 9:09 PM on Wednesday/16.07.08
me: i can call u, but m feeling lazy & u might say 'why r u calling again' / chalo jo bhi hai / can u sms me before u sleep? / just like that only / bye
I have been quite busy for the past 2 months. Due to this I am not getting enough time to write any thing other than this Hanger, which I feel should be regular. Hopefully soon things will change and I will be seen here more often than now.
You yourself, as much as anybody else in the universe, deserves your love and affection. -- Buddha
The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of a martyr. -- Muhammad
Aboriginal people are key because they have different sens of where we belong and how we interact with the nature. -- Dabid Steindt-Rast
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein
Happiness can't be travelled to, earned or consumed. It is the spiritual experience of being aware while living your entire life. -- Dennis Waitley
In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force. -- Stuart Wild... I would like to alter the second part in this way - "Your creativity is basically your expression of the inner force that you feel with each new experience."
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -- Khalil Gibran
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves; it is pointless to search elsewhere.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that should not be done at all.
Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.
Minds re like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
The eye see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we should never lose infinite hope.
People who don't get crazy ideas, have more chances of going mad. -- Arunoday
I have been away for shooting since last Sunday and returned home late night, last Sunday on July 6, 2008. Well this hanger is for that days.
We can not change anything in our lives, unless we accept it. -- Carl Jung
Our life is frittered away by details... start simplifying it right now. -- Thoreau
You have succeeded in life when all you want is what you need. -- Vernon Howard
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. -- Erich Fromm
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. -- Henry Ford
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. -- Dalai Lama
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the tree, the clouds; everything. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
The test of courage comes when w are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. -- Ralph W Sockman
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Imagination is the highest kite on can fly.
If you clutch the past tight to your chest, the your arms may be too full to embrace the present.
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. It will happen, in time - relax. -- arunoday
