They Look Better In Print

Last July I got the opportunity, thanks to Rahul to shoot some pictures on story he was doing for Tehelka. The story itself "Dating a Gorilla" a take on the Indian Television industry was subsequently printed that same month.

Here are the pictures. I must admit the pictures do look better on the glossy white pages of a newspaper then on the pixilated screen of my monitor.

All the pictures in the story were taken on the sets of the Zee Television soap Tumare Disha.

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The first things that strikes you on one of these sets is its size, sprawling over two level it has everything any saas-bahu potboiler would need, a mandir (for the shaadhi or the puja scene), a mock bar stocked with a series of interesting bottles of various sizes filled with colored water of course, a large drawing room, a staircase and a few fully furnished bedrooms to boot. You could actually live on the sets of one of these serials if you really wanted to.


Lights .....

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The Camera starts rolling .....


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"Quiet on Set !!!"


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& Action !!!

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Few Takes later it's back to the dressing room.

Getting Dolled Up.
Actress Zarina Wahab dolls herself up for the next scene

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Out comes the fake moustache and beard


And that's a wrap atleast for me.




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6 comments:

amit varma said...

Outstanding pictures, Akshay!

n said...

love the blacknwhite right after the tehelka pages

Unknown said...

amit & N - thank you.

Sid said...

NICE MAN!!

Sweet stuff. Still can't believe you take those pics man ;)

Ashu M said...

Congrats, Akshay :)

Garima said...

some great shots... the midshot portraits are especially very rich and evocative!

so this is the boring serial shoot you mentioned... small wonder, after all its ZEE !!

;-)
garima