Main zindagi hoon

Main Zindagi Hoon
Main zindagi hoon Still
Directed by	Prashant Bhilare
Produced by	Prashant Bhilare
Written by	Prashant Bhilare
Starring	Sanjeev Bhargav Nikhil Nayak Pranay Kandey Kalyani Nerurkar Sakshi Barve
Distributed by	Rajshri Media 1takemedia
Release date(s)	December 2009
Running time	40 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi (with English subtitles)

Main zindagi hoon, known internationally as I am life, is a 2009 short film in Hindi language, written, produced and directed by Prashant Bhilare, his first film as a director. The actual running time of the short is forty minutes. But there do exists three shorter versions of the film, edited for screening at film festivals. The three shorter versions are with running time of 28 minutes, 15 minutes and 11 minutes. The heavily edited 11 minute cut was screened at the 7th Annual FRAMES Film Festival and the 2nd Jaipur International Film Festival. The 28 minute cut was released online in the month of december 2009 by Rajshri Productions' media firm, Rajshri Media and Mumbai based online short film distributors, 1takemedia. The 15 minute cut was screened at major international film festivals.

Genre

Drama/ Thriller

Plot

Aayur (Sanjeev Bhargav) is haunted by a spirit.

Cast

• Aayur - Sanjeev Bhargav
• Aman - Nikhil Nayak
• Amar - Pranay Kandey
• Watchman - Sameer Kalbhor
• Mr. Secretary - Junaid Kodil
• Grocery Store Boy - Moh. Rashid
• Little Aayur - late Rahul Mahadik
• Friend 1 - Sandeep Gowde
• Friend 2 - Roshan Apte
• Roger/ Rahul - Anup Redij
• Sagar More
• Saktap Tharval
• Kalyani Nerurkar
• Sakshi Barve

Crew

• Writer, Producer, Direction - Prashant Bhilare
• Costume - Prashant Bhilare
• Director of Photography - Sujay Kumar, Abhijeet Deo
• Editor - Sanjay Keni, Narendra Bedekar and Jitu Thakker (uncredited)
• Sound - Habib Khan, Prafulla Athawale
• Mixing and Dubbing - Prashant Kadam at Akshay Digital Studio
• Make up and Hair Design - Tanu Khan
• Production Design - Anuja Sabnis

Pre-production

Prashant Bhilare started writing the film just a few days after appearing for his last university exam. It took him almost two years to write the film. The last ten minutes of the film were re-written a night before the first narration to the actor to whom it was initially offered for the lead role of Aayur, before Sanjeev Bhargav stepped in.

Production

The principal photography started in the month of march 2009 and ended three days later. A day's patch work was done in the month of june 2009. The DP for the film was Sujay Kumar and the patch work was done by Abhijeet Deo. The film was shot on Digital Video (DV) format.

Post-production

The film was edited by Sanjay Keni and Narendra Bedekar. The 15 minute cut, that was screened at the major international film festivals, was edited by Jitu Thakker. The 10 minute cut, that was screened at the 2nd Jaipur International Film Festival, was edited by Sanjay Keni.

The dubbing and sound mixing was done by Prashant Kadam at the Akshay Digital Studio. The film was seven months into post-production.

Internet Release

"MAIN ZINDAGI HOON" was released online by Rajshri Productions' media firm, Rajshri Media on 19 December 2009.

The forty minute version was released by Culture Unplugged for almost a year, but later pulled off from the site for its new online film festival. Culture Unplugged brought this small film straight on the international platform for the first time in the life of the film.

The short was re-released by 1takemedia, a Mumbai based media firm on their youtube channel on Friday the 13th May, 2011.

Television Premiere

"MAIN ZINDAGI HOON" was telecast on the Albanian television channel DigitALB as a part of the 1st First Step Film Fest in october 2010. It marked the world television premier for the film.

Film Festivals and Public Screenings

• 7th Annual FRAMES Film Festival, January 2010, Mumbai
• 2nd Jaipur International Film Festival, January 2010
• Moviemala (Mumbai), June 2010
• Hyderabad Short Film festival, July 2010
• Moviemala Thane, July 2010
• Friendship International Film Festival, (New Delhi), August 2010
• Showbiz Action Players, (Mumbai), September 2010
• 1st First Step Film Fest, Tirana(Albania), October 2010
• Miniboxoffice International Film festival, (New Delhi), November 2010^[1]
• 3rd Nashik International Film festival, January 2011^[2]
• International Short Film Festival, Bhubaneswar, February 2011^[3]

• Special Screening for the NAAC team, students and staff of the N.K.T.T college of Arts and Commerce, Thane, July 2010 and August 2011

The 28 minute cut was screened for the first time on August 16, 2011 at the N.K.T.T College of Arts and Science, Thane. The special screening was organised as a part of the inaugural function of the new AV room on the college campus.

Awards and Nominations

• GOLDEN CAMERA AWARD for BEST SHORT FILM at the 3rd Nashik International Film Festival, Nominated
• BEST SOCIAL MOVIE at Miniboxoffice International Film Festival, Nominated

Music

The following songs appear in the film.

• "CLOSING THEME MUSIC"- Composer: Stephan Zacharias, Film:Downfall (German: Der Untergang) (2004)
• "TERE BINA ZINDAGI SE"- Composer:R.D. Burman, Film:Aandhi(1975)
• "YEH DIL NA HOTA BECHARA"- Composer:S.D. Burman, Film:Jewel Thief (1967)
• "OPENING THEME MUSIC"- Composer:George S. Clinton, Film:Wild Things (1998)
• "My Sharona"- Artist:The Knack, Album:Get the Knack (1979)
• "Cheek to Cheek"- Artist:Fred Astaire, Film:Top Hat (1935)
• "Some Day My Prince Will Come"- Artist:Adriana Caselotti, Film:Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• "AAMHI THAKAR THAKAR"- Composer: Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Film: Jait Re Jait (1977)
• "MI DOLKAR DARYACHA RAJA"- Composer:Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Singers:Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant
• "KAISE KATEGI ZINDAGI"- Composer:Madan Mohan
• "OPENING THEME MUSIC"- Composer:Bernard Herrmann, Film: Psycho
• "SANG TU, MAZHA HOSHIL KA"- Artist:Asha Bhosale

Trivia

• Two scenes from the film were shot at the St. John the Baptist High School in Thane, which is also the Alma Mater of the film's director.
• The film has a "Non-Conclusive" or "Open-End".
• Moh. Rashid, who appears in the last scene as the grocery store boy, actually works at a roadside tea stall. He would everyday bring tea for the crew members on the set. He was asked to step in for the role at the last minute.
• According to the script, at the beginning of the short, Aayur (Sanjeev Bhargav) is watching the scene from "Life Is Beautiful" where the family rides on a bicycle. The production department was not able to find the DVD of that movie, apparently it was out of stock. So "Life Is Beautiful" was replaced with "Little Miss Sunshine" at the very last moment. "Little Miss Sunshine" had a similar scene where the whole family rides in a Volkswagen T2 Microbus.
• The "Bombay Times" shot in the film, is the director's tribute to the Mumbai city. The particular shot was inspired from the very well know "Bandra Khadi", a polluted stream which runs through the Bandra suburb of the city. The place has the city local train route running across at one end and has corporate offices of MNCs on the other end. According to the director, this frame captures the economically separate classes of the city that co-exists within the same city.
• The director's voice can be heard very lightly, prompting the actor during the wash basin sequence.

External link

• Main zindagi hoon on Facebook
• Main zindagi hoon on Youtube
• Main zindagi hoon on Dailymotion
• Main zindagi hoon's Blog
• Main zindagi hoon on Know Your Films
• Main Zindagi Hoon at the Internet Movie Database

Reference

1. ^ "Big Dreams, Short Films- Filmmaker Prashant Bhilare with RBS". miniboxoffice.com. http://www.miniboxoffice.com/news_detail.aspx?id=14. 
2. ^ "3rd Nashik International Film Festival, Selected short films". niffindia.com. http://www.niffindia.com/festivalselectedfilms.htm. 
3. ^ "International Short Film Festival 2011, Bhubaneshwar, Selected short films". shortfilmfest.in. http://shortfilmfest.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=55.