Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Directors Cut - The Palace : Part 1

Dreams....If i could get a penny for every weird dream i had, i probably would have been a millionaire by now.

Analysing them so far have only left me violently pulling my hair! So, I decided it is best to stop worrying about them than living only with a handful of hair.

In the dream:

I am this new fresh movie director and have planned shooting a suspense film! Probably my thoughts weren’t that fresh!

We all packed our bags and went to this magnificent palace to shoot. It is a palace is located in the middle of a desert. It’s an old palace with an intriguing gloomy look to it. We reached there in the evening at the time of sunset. I knew this was the place as soon as i saw the glorious shine of the palace in the evening sun.

It was a fantastic sight! It made me wonder if i was the king of this palace in my last incarnation!!

The plot of the movie is about a man being haunted by an animal. and yes, there is no animal creepier than a snake!

So, we hired a snake and the maintainer. The snake looked small and weak and i didn’t really think we could make this look scary.

But since creepiness <= Budget, we moved on!

We started looking for a decent location to start the shooting.

We were exploring the palace and after a tiresome search, we entered into this narrow passageway which ended as an entry to a great big hall.

The hall was uniquely circular in stark contrast to the normal durbar halls found in India. There were huge long pillars holding the beautifully painted ceiling. It seemed like a macro version of

a Frisbee placed on six magic markers. The hall is decorated beautifully with stone carvings at one side suggesting that that was the place the throne was located. The arch connecting the two middle pillars with gracefully engraved Hindu deities.

There was our location. Worn out but graceful!

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