Burn & Break that coconut ,,,,,,,,,,, Better late than never ,,,,,,,,

Years ago ,,,,, When I used to Shoot for my Friend Gopal Krishnan and his Jemima Films we always broke coconuts before a big shoot for good luck ,,,,,,, We never had one bad weather day or mishap on all of those shoots ............

So I thought it was a good thing that Shivaaji was doing ,,,,,,,,, But burning them was new and interesting to me ,,,,,,,we had just smashed them before ,,,, and from then on everything went smoothly ,,,, Sort of .

We must have been very busy as I dont have one shot from the bunch of setups we did around here ,,, like tracking towards the stopped car from inside an imagined car ,,, on a dolly of course after taking the viewfinder into the real car ,,, to check what we would see .

We had a track in under the non existing car ,,to the People reacting to the baby floating up in a Plasma car ,, we lined it up with the cardboard wheel ,,,, worth its weight in gold ,,,

While we were lining up the next shot with the Cardboard tyre ,,,,, The Boys pushed past with the crane to set up a high static angle of a nice looking piece of Pedestrian crossing ... later Wing moved one light up the Hill with a diffusion Frame to soften it ........ So when we rushed up there with minutes to shoot it ,,, We were Ready ,,,, It was shot

It was a couple of seconds to 5am ,,,, But we finished as requested ,,,,,,,