"Thinking of Him" ::- First Romantic Film of a Nobel laureate in the world.
Our International Film “
Thinking of Him” has entered in the phase of
Post-production in the studio of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
The film maker Pablo Cesar and other post-production professionals have
been working on it to make the world’s fabulous, touchy and catchy love
-story of Nobel Laureate “RabindranathTagore” and Argentinian famous
authoress “Victoria Ocampo” being co-produced by Johnson-Suraj Films
International, India and Cesar Films, Argentina.
Cine-professionals like editor, sound-designer, Back ground scorer and
others are deeply involved to pay their best to make a wonderful film
for the audiences of world.
“One Scene, One shot" cinematography treatment is the feature of this film. Another technical feature is sync sound.
The film “Thinking of Him” has 69 scenes that means the film must have
69 shots. However, the film has three scenes that have got use of
elephant as living props in the jungle of Shantiniketan, Bolpur but on
that very day, scenes did not have elephant available on the shooting
locations and so three scenes got six shots and take one and take two.
One scene has got a child hallucination that got also one extra shots.
So film completes with 69 scenes and 73 shots.
When camera starts
rolling till the director’s call of cut, is known as one shot. One take
is a long take that lasts much longer than the traditional editing run.
One take’s durability may be very long or may be the time-length of the
film that fades out just before screening of credit roll. So in this
regard, the film “Thinking of Him” has a piquant technical that is
available in rare films.
Such a long take of a scene moves on
dolly panther with long straight or circular trolley track with few
persons assisting “Directorate of Photography”. "One scene, One Shot”
seeks many rehearsal with the characters. The "Long Take" of a shot
makes many compositions ranging from long size to mid to close-up to two
to master size vice versa. Therefore, marking of positions of
characters and their movements must gel with the pace of Dolly Panther.
The film “Thinking of Him” goes ahead from fade-in to fade-out with
love of real persona like Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo in
real time and that’s why, “Black and White” tone of the film
aestheticizes Tagore-Victoria’s era from India to Argentina to India to
Paris.
This moving real happenings of the lives of protagonists of
1920’s, have been fiction zed in real locations. The real persona like
GURUDEV or Rabindranath Tagore played by India’s great actor Victor
Bannerjee who is not only looking like Tagore but he also adopts his
body- language. Another real character is Victoria Ocampo played by
Argentinean famous actress “Eleonora Wexler” who is not only so
proximate to the persona of Victoria Ocampo but she is seemingly love of
Tagore.
The film “ Thinking of Him” has been shot on romancing
camera of Arriflex435 in the era of digital wave where a series of
camera of 4k resolutions are available and they are being used to shoot
but the Arriflex 435 has wheel of black and white reel as well as
coloured reel too. So the entire team of both production houses had so
been amused, thrilled during shooting from India to Argentina to France
that was beyond the description of words. Arriflex 435 is a sort of
romance of director, cinematographer, producers, other technicians and
actors too.
The present time of the film goes ahead with
fictional characters who keep moving in Shantiniketan, Bolpur that is
two hours away from fast train voyage, Bolpur market, forests. This part
of the film establishes a coherent philosophy of education designed by
Nobel Laureate Tagore with the help of an young American fellow Leonard
Elmhurst who is agriculturist too.
The present day spreads in a long
span of time with many characters like 70 years old man Prakash, 13-15
years old Amaya, few students( boys and girls) and many fictional
characters including young Kamali played by Raima Sen who has profoundly
delivered her acting. Her eyes and face have much potential emotions to
a fictional young professor Felix played by Hector Bordoni who has come
to Shantiniketan to get rid of his agony.
Protagonists
characters acted by Victor Bannerjee, Eleonora Wexler, Raima Sen, Hector
Bordoni, Professor Bratin Chatterjee, Somo Sarkar and many characters
from India, Argentina and France have played their share of roles along
with sync of technical team and production team.
Mr.Suraj Kumar, the
co-producer of the film “THINKING OF HIM” is hilariously waiting for
the first cut of the film from his counterpart co-producer Mr. Pablo
Cesar.
The first cut of the film after post-production will go
through the dubbing in Hindi and Bengali languages from English that is
used in sync sound tech on the silent locations.
This is the first film on the love of a Nobel laureate in the world Cinema I feel raised to be part of this film.
By:
Satya Prakash