Nishanth R Desingh

I had always been having the fascination for films since my childhood days. Being brought up in a country having the largest film industry in the world (in terms of the number of films produced per year), cinema was our only escape from reality from our day to day lives. You can hardly find people who don’t go to the cinemas.There is one difference between the western society and mine. The westerners decide what they want to become and go after that. Whereas in my society, you first become an ‘Engineer’ or a ‘Doctor’, and ‘then’ you decide to do what you want to become! So here I am, a graduated ‘unemployable’ Engineer, who did not even bother to attend the convocation and flew straight down to SAE right after my last class of Engineering. Engineering has become cliche in my society.The reason I said I was an unemployable graduate was because, I hardly concentrated on my academics. My only focus was towards filmmaking. As I said earlier, I am fascinated with the art of filmmaking. But there was one particular night in my life when my fascination turned into passion. My cousin insisted on taking me to the Dark Knight Rises. I usually never agree with the concept of Super Heroes. But my ideology completely changed within the three hours of watching the film.I experienced something that I had never felt in my life before. It was a ‘kick’. Something attacked my psyche. Even today I am not exactly able to describe how I felt on that day. All I could confess is that my mind opened up to a different dimension of film art. It was only then I became more aware of Christopher Nolan and simultaneously watched every other film of his. I totally became an addict to his films. I now wanted to get the ‘kick’ more often.Unfortunately, Nolan comes up with a film only once in two years. I didn’t have the patience with me either. Hence I started to mimic the Nolan’s notion of story telling and came up with my own concepts and ideas. I concentrated on socio-psychological concepts with regards to my society. For example, I always wished my peers had a different notion when concerning love and relationships. Hence I did a couple of short films that embraces the values of the above keeping in mind the ‘Nolan’s’ approach of story telling.Surprisingly, it worked to a reasonable extent. My second short film I made has got more than 13000 organic views on the youtube. Though the quality of making was very moderate. People still gave me the feedback that they liked the concept and sc