The documentary series “Transgeneration" by Jeremy Simmons is one of the first documentaries to tackle the problem on being transgender but also it does an excellent job of portraying the social and inner lives of four transgendered college students as they attempt to create and reconstruct their identities, both sexually and socially which is the … Continue reading “Transgeneration” , An analysis. →

Piecing together a documentary requires a lot of understanding of behavior of subjects and the insanely huge amount of footage that are usually captured over the course of the shoot, sometimes the footage can be extensive depending on the amount of matter the story wishes to convey and having it edited and toned down to … Continue reading “Piecing an Edit” →

I have to understand my prowess in stimulating visual retention and having an entire film play in my head over and over in time, having to freeze frames and having to see the edit in full dimension beyond the confines of the two-dimensional viewing pleasure of the eye on the screen . I have the … Continue reading “Importance of Sequences” →

Ernest Hemmingway once wrote,” There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self”. These are words that have been unspoken within me from a very long time even as I develop memory, or it was maybe just the way I was raised. Betterment, Academics … Continue reading “Being Superior to your former self…” →

Filmmaking is sometimes an advocacy in escapism, expression, rebellion, propaganda and so much more. Having to understand this journey in choosing your choice in advocacy is truly an unstable one with no right answer to have you excel in this career path. And I speak more than mere self-reference since I am but student of … Continue reading “Why I choose Documentary Filmmaking?” →

 The Middle East has always been a place I find intrigue, for its richness in diversity, it’s accompaniment in personalities and all that drives them in a land that favors opportunities in a grander economic narrative where each one of us fit in perfectly and can be replaced cyclically, with such an understanding I found … Continue reading “An Economic Narrative” →

Having heard the task assigned to us on a warm day. One needed to spread well past their comfort zones and their notions of the self. The task at hand was to get to know a stranger and try to understand them and maybe, possibly get a story out of them. the purpose of this … Continue reading “Strangers no more” →

Family, friends, the Internet, and commute have been such an integral part of modern day living. Unnecessarily in that order of significance. There was a news article I read at the end of four weeks, past. It stated intimately as to how commute has been a struggle and an alternate part of our day. People … Continue reading “Life on commute” →

A place lush in the culture of Old, ignorant to the ever-changing world around it. It stays the same, people having the same routines, the same structure, only being caught with age. I heard a man who spoke of Meena Bazaar and he told how it got its quintessential name. Taxi drivers nicknamed the place … Continue reading MEENA BAZAAR →