The Spirit of Filmmaking
i’m really glad to be speaking and
that too after such brilliant speakers i
don’t know what i’m going to speak
uh yesterday night also i was victim i
was trying to
you know i’m going to give the best
speech of my life one
day but i ended up watching a series and
yes yes so
so what i bring to you today is uh
book rather a
very raw and
very honest part of me that like visual
says very stupid
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actually people used to call me cool but
i don’t like it anymore listen
now i’m a pretty spiritual guy
i’m not religious i’m very spiritual and
that means i don’t do tapasya you know
it just means that
i understand that i am nothing
and the moment i do that i realize that
i have everything
so what i bring before today at the bank
what i bring before you is
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my talk i’m a filmmaker as they
introduced me
i’m learning what filmmaking is all
about but i
bring before you my talk called the
spirit
of filmmaking now
if you go to you youtube you can learn
how to make a film
there are a lot of courses out there
they’ll
tell you how to make a film uh how to uh
how to use adobe premiere pro for
beginners
how to do this how to do that five c’s
of cinematography
and the the guidebook of direction
production design and if you go and if
you have a little more money
then you go to udemy or skillshare and
you learn all of these things
how to make a film there are absolute
guides that people can
actually train you and if you have a
little more money and you go to all
these premier institutes and they are
going to tell you how to make a film
but i doubt there is a place that is
going to teach you and tell you
why to make a film and that is the exact
reason
why i am standing here in front of you
why do you make a film is it because
you’ve got a lot of money
why do you think people make films or
why do you think you do the things you
do
why did he make his company into a 100
crore company
that is valued at 100 crores
why does she run all the way you know
calling
yeah after that one stitch now tell me
why
and that why i think i’d like to put it
forward before you in
in different segments right so i think
the why begins by an
understanding of who you are okay
the first thing is if we we have
heard this so many times and and as
instagram as you mentioned you know we
put out photographs and say
just another day or me
you know and the entire advertisement
campaign if you remember
for the past 10 years has been about be
yourself
be yourself now so i was also this guy i
was so want to be myself you know
and i’m sure so many of you want to you
know i just want to be myself
it’s very important for us to understand
this concept everybody says be who you
are
i’m sure when we have this toxins
and somebody’s trying to do something
you know and i i think it’s time i just
want to be myself and express myself
it’s very good
but the bigger question out here is who
are you
that needs to be addressed first when
nobody is looking
when there is nobody there to validate
you and say you’re going good or you’re
doing bad
before that before even giving going and
pitching it to your father and mother
in the silent in the dark
there happens a time there happens a
thing there happens a place
where you need to be brutally brutally
honest
with yourself and in that honesty you
will find
yourself half
now why did i say half i need a very
simple example i’m going to put forward
to you
many of us having almost all of us own
phone
or laptop or whatever it’s about our
laptop
phone big ninja what do we do when it
spoils
we take it to the mechanic
but let’s see you have an option there’s
one mechanic out here but you have the
service center let’s have an apple
laptop
a macbook which means i’m pretty rich
you know so
i have a macbook i have one mr taurasia
who can make the laptop
but i have the apple authorized service
center out here
now who will i go to who will i go to
apple authorized service center you know
so when i go there
what does that mean it means when
a product like a laptop is spoiled
or it needs to be reset or anything we
trust
the person that made the laptop right
in the same way when you are discovering
about
yourself when you are talking about who
you are
the very very reasonable thing is to go
back to the person
who made you
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and that means your mother and father
and
and the higher power or god
now i’m bringing in suddenly i’m
speaking like a pastor or a father you
know
but i’ll tell you religion
is something different but spirituality
is the need is the absolute
need of human life people say
i don’t believe in that thing everybody
has a group okay
so you say that i don’t believe in being
spiritual
now that itself is one group okay people
say
i don’t believe in god good that itself
is another group
right those are they’re called atheists
if i’m not mistaken right
but now my question is don’t mean it is
just because some in this
is cool it is because you really want to
be an atheist
be an atheist because you are so atheist
that
you know
do the thing because you want to do it
now in this process a lot of things
happen
so what does it all come down to what
does it all come down to when you are
making a film
or when you are putting the story
forward or when you’re trying to tell
somebody something
the first thing that comes is the
understanding of who you are and that
can only be obtained
by going back to the person who made you
nobody knows you better than
your mother not even your girlfriend but
it changes after getting married right
sir
it really does
i’m gonna i’m gonna just tell you a
simple story a simple very simple story
because i’m a storyteller i love stories
so
there was a cat and a dog
just trying to show that i can speak
hindi also
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so once that happened you know
coming back to the american accent so
the
cat thought and the dog both of them had
a similar thought
and now the cat thought that the dog
thought oh my god
this
foreign
this man must be a god that is what this
dog thought another billy being billy of
course
so he said billy she said let’s call it
she
she said you know huh wait a minute
this man is giving me all the food that
i need
is
i think i am god
i think this is the two perspective
where we are divided right now
all of us sometimes we are so
dependent on our talents and so
much you know in love with ourselves and
our talents that
very often life just tries to tickle us
a little bit
and he says you know what you walk the
road
in another turn you will find someone
more talented than you
and i have come to acknowledge this the
hard way i have realized this the hard
way
no amount of talent can ever
ever ever match
the gift of love the gift
of blessing when i say this
trust me i mean be able to put power
points before you to explain it
but deep down inside of you when
nobody’s looking
deep down inside of you where you are
just you
bukra you without the makeup you that
person knows
what i’m talking about
what i have come to acknowledge is
sometimes our perspective has shifted so
much
into the talents that we have into the
talents that we have
then we forgot the very reason why we
were talented
sometimes we are so busy in giving
answers that we forget what the question
was
and i think that is the problem all of
us are facing
we do not listen to somebody to
understand
we listen to somebody to fight back
coming to the next concept i bring
before you film making
a filmmaker needs to be emotionally
intelligent there are different types of
intelligence
some of you might be intelligent in by
numbers by
different ways but emotional
intelligence is one of the biggest
biggest gifts that all of us actually
have
but we don’t know how to use it like
what michael were saying that time
is the human connection what do you mean
by that what do you mean by a human
connection if we go even deeper
if we go to the electron proton and
neutron inside of it we realize
that when a human connection means when
you feel
good about someone or this generation
calls it the vibe
i like the vibe you know it’s a very
positive vibe coming from here you know
so i think the positive vibe means you
feel good
you feel good and let me let me just
break it down and break the news
any person can only be satisfied
when he or she does the thing he or she
is supposed to do
remember that remember that let us
never forget that that is why in our
lifetime
everybody does something on the edge
that is called variety
right just because somebody is a
filmmaker doesn’t mean you have to be
filmmaker
just because somebody’s a government
contractor doesn’t mean you have to be a
government contractor
just because somebody’s a youtuber
doesn’t mean you have to be a youtuber
but to find out who you are
you need to go back to the person who
made you and ask him what am i
everybody has been talking about this
void or this emptiness inside of us
all the lyrics are based
on
what are we trying to say by saying all
of that what are we trying to say
but we realize when we get married and
when things go on
you teach somebody and then the
honeymoon period gets over with that
person
then you realize why don’t i feel the
way i felt
being with you before most of us have
mistaken
love to be a feeling most of us have
feeling is like an indicator only
feeling is the byproduct of love but
feeling is
not love and most of us get weak
most of us get we fall down most of us
feel drowned
because we go by feelings only
feelings and everything is born out of
perspectives as we say
some of us might have a cat perspective
might have a dog perspective but
perspectives
is everything worldview is everything
mind you bollywood makes 3500 films a
year in india
right do you know nepalese
300 nepali cinema is made every year
but which are the ones that touches you
bollywood hollywood the film that
actually touches you you can actually
put it
count it in your fingers right you may
feel it’s good it’s nice the technical
is very ignorant you know the
cinematography and everything but
when a good film comes along when a film
that really touches you
you really don’t care about how it was
shot
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but you will know why it was shot
because it was made to make you realize
that
and while realizing the by-product was
you felt
good or bad
or sexy
i was talking about perspectives at one
point and i realized that
you know uh right now i’m more important
what is true right now
there’s no hiding the fact i am
but i can tell you i’m like the sexiest
mutant man alive
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so back in school since everybody is
talking about class schools you know so
back in these
days this was the time when teenage had
occurred and all of a sudden on my face
pimples had occurred
and i really did not understand it
till till till the time
that came from my mom and my friends
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there was a blind man who you know even
touched something they can tell you what
he can tell you what it is so one person
came and gave him a cricket bat and he
says what is this
uh this is a cricket bat
wow they gave him an apple what is this
oh this is an apple and they gave my
face
what is this uh this is a jackfruit
it was so beautiful
because but i i had no problems
until somebody came up and said it’s so
bad oh my god i don’t know how you live
with this you know
and when that thing came i realized oh
my god i looked so bad
and then well i did not even look in the
mirror you know that
true story i did not even look in the
mirror but yeah
you know but actually nothing doesn’t
matter it’s okay though
but outside you know sometimes
we are all like that but when i became
brutally honest
and i said and i looked into the mirror
like how amitabh but you looked into the
mirror
in the film i’m a rugbar anthony and i
said to myself
you sexy man
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that problem disappeared no amount of
fairness creams no amount of pimple
removing creams or products that the
world’s greatest company made
made me feel good about myself than when
i
accepted my own self
the way i am supposed to be
perspective is that powerful is that
powerful
what is your perspective on life or what
is your perspective
on the field that you want to work or
what is your perspective on happiness
i’m telling you you’ll all arrive in the
same destination
but the road will be very different
it’s going to be very very very
different and i’m going to end it now
as a filmmaker what i’ve understood and
this is what i call
the god’s perspective god’s perspective
i’m going to tell you something
when i became a filmmaker
so much changed filmmaker is making is
no more
just my profession it is an
expression of who i am okay
so remember when i tell you this when an
actor tries
to do more than what he’s supposed to do
what happens it spoils the film
an actor’s job is to trust the director
and given within the space that is given
to everything you want within the space
because more bigger than acting
or more bigger than the director or the
actor himself
is the story we are telling
is the film we are making
in life if we put
god as the director as the maker
and if we put ourselves as the actor
you will realize that every fall in your
life
is so important because when your story
all comes down together into one
magnificent story
you will realize that
was so important because
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was also so important you might be
laughing
but trust me
trust me every fall was
the ingredient that took you to that
character
who loves a perfect character nobody
because there isn’t the perfect
character
but we love the people people say we
love an imperfect character no it’s
wrong
we love an imperfect character trying to
work towards perfection
never forget that so let’s all have
god’s perspective in our life of who we
are why things are happening
everything is enacting like shakespeare
says all’s uh
the words of stage we are all merely
actors like how
wow
we don’t know but what matters
is you do the thing like they say
because you love it how do you love it
by being honest with it how do you know
you’re being honest with it
by going back to the person checking the
manuals of your own life
and seeing oh aha because at the end of
everything
from the party to the politics to the
art to everything
i think what we are actually doing is
we’re living a life
we’re living a life now to answer the
very first question i post
the spirit of filmmaking begins
in the deep the dark when nobody is
looking
in that sacred internal place
thank you very much