Hymn to the Great City
Story of an artist, who for the past 20 years is working in the art field. After working for 8-9 years with a premier theater group he moves to Mumbai to work in movies. In a period of 9-10 years that…
Hymn to the Great City
Story of an artist, who for the past 20 years is working in the art field. After working for 8-9 years with a premier theater group he moves to Mumbai to work in movies. In a period of 9-10 years that he spends in Mumbai he gets to work in 12-13 movies and a few TV serials during which he has also assisted a popular screen writer. After spending 7-8 years in Mumbai he realizes that this is not the kind of work that he imagined or wanted to do. Something for which he left his theater behind and came to work in movies. In the present time, keeping aside a few people, everybody in the name of cinema is making virus movies. And in those virus movies neither there is a thought nor are they related to life in any way. Everybody here discusses Chaplin, Ray, Ghatak, Kurosawa and DeSica but when it comes to making films they make films on criminals, dons, molesters , murderer, and lechers.. and present them as hero.. that too with illogical presentation and without any shame. Keeping everything aside he writes a film that he wants to see and to get it made. He starts meeting various production houses & independent financiers. In the past 2-3 years, sometimes the script is green lit but the project fails to take off. At other times, somebody wants to change the premise of the story, so after some time he decides that he will sell his script and the amount that he will get from it, he will make a low budget indie film that he wants to make. Time passes but that too doesn't happen. During this time he gets to work in some of the Bollywood projects but the money part doesn't happen. This usually happens in Bollywood, but it was for the first time that this type of thing has happened to him. As the things around him are not happening the way he wanted so he gets frustrated and starts feeling that there is too much corruption around him & this leads to a continuous start of having suicidal thoughts, and side by side he also keeps trying to make his film. Then a thought crosses his mind that can't he make this film in a way a solo play is done by just reading the script and recording it using a affordable camera. Going through various ups n downs & handling mental traumas... This film captures 24 hours in the life of an artist.
Hymn to the Great City
Documentary
Film Details
Story of an artist, who for the past 20 years is working in the art field. After working for 8-9 years with a premier theater group he moves to Mumbai to work in movies. In a period of 9-10 years that he spends in Mumbai he gets to work in 12-13 movies and a few TV serials during which he has also assisted a popular screen writer.
After spending 7-8 years in Mumbai he realizes that this is not the kind of work that he imagined or wanted to do. Something for which he left his theater behind and came to work in movies. In the present time, keeping aside a few people, everybody in the name of cinema is making virus movies.
And in those virus movies neither there is a thought nor are they related to life in any way. Everybody here discusses Chaplin, Ray, Ghatak, Kurosawa and DeSica but when it comes to making films they make films on criminals, dons, molesters , murderer, and lechers.. and present them as hero..
that too with illogical presentation and without any shame. Keeping everything aside he writes a film that he wants to see and to get it made. He starts meeting various production houses & independent financiers.
In the past 2-3 years, sometimes the script is green lit but the project fails to take off. At other times, somebody wants to change the premise of the story, so after some time he decides that he will sell his script and the amount that he will get from it, he will make a low budget indie film that he wants to make. Time passes but that too doesn't happen.
During this time he gets to work in some of the Bollywood projects but the money part doesn't happen. This usually happens in Bollywood, but it was for the first time that this type of thing has happened to him. As the things around him are not happening the way he wanted so he gets frustrated and starts feeling that there is too much corruption around him & this leads to a continuous start of having suicidal thoughts, and side by side he also keeps trying to make his film.
Then a thought crosses his mind that can't he make this film in a way a solo play is done by just reading the script and recording it using a affordable camera. Going through various ups n downs & handling mental traumas... This film captures 24 hours in the life of an artist..