did more docu watching...went all over the world from walkeshwar to kalina, to vile parle (the Sri Lankan babe in college made this place sound like it was in U.K.. haha) all to get our docu to reach people.

and then went for BCL digital film festival...there was one on gender discrimination in Punjab...pretty decent i thought...and there was oneon the Bhopal Gas Tragedy..which was in my opinion a royal waste of money considering that the filmmaker was on her own trip..u see ramani, the dude who criticised our rameshwaram docu was the camera person...so the film was full of walking shots..i think the filmmaker was trying hard to make a statement about being this hep thinker and trying to introduce self reflexive shots in the film..but sorry to say she failed miserably..and one gas affected guy called Sunil who was exploited to the hilt...Deepa said he was like Javed at Patiya.

also saw Aakrosh by Yusuf Mehta on the gujarat episode. it was average...I think our film should be showed after his..it's like a sequence. also..we saw Shezadi (or was it Ayesha Bibi??) and also Ayesha Bibi (or was it Shezadi??) in his film...they were also in ours...but tell you what these docu dudes have a lot of attitude...i mean 25 years of docu making and they still don't make earth shattering films, but they strut about giving this attitude bullshit to everyone. we told them about ourselves and that we wanted to work on the Best Bakery case, and the producer was telling us how they were all working for free..and how they were doing a noble deed. and crap like that.

there was this one minute film called Bhaichaara which provided the comic relief after all these films. it was made by Karan who was once upon a time from Xavier's. Rehana (also from xavier's) was aso part of it...she had a very pretty sister called mariam who was quite funny at times...Mariam would study precisely one week before the exams and do really well while i would slog a whole month.

the crowd at bcl..was BAD. filled with these teeny boppers (oh- i -want- to- make- docu- films- coz-i-want-to-look-cool types) and they laughed at all the wrong times...when people were talking about deaths of their family members and other tragedies..and there was this particularly annoying chick who was sitting behind me and kept thinking aloud..and obviously thinking aloud stupidly...i wish i had gone ahead thrown my bottle at her or something. i wish i wouldn't meet as many xavierites as i do everywhere and everytime i travel around in mumbai.

by the way, the Central Board for Film Certification sucks...they give you these forms which cannot be read coz the print quality is so bad ..to top it they do not give you two copies, you have to take xerox copies if u need anymore of the form. and there are some ten stamp papers to be submitted. i don't think our film will ever get a censor certificate anyways.