Satya Prakash Gupta

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"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.