Four Lessons I Learned Making My First Feature in India
Three years of struggle had brought me here, within a whisker of completing Khoya, my first feature, in India. A religious riot was about to threaten to undo it all. I was filming in my father’s hometown in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. We were shooting at a chaat stand in the middle of town. It was a simple scene. The protagonist orders chaat (an Indian street food dish) from a vendor. Matt, the assistant cameraman, had taken over operating because Kevin, the director of photography, was lying in bed, having been leveled by the hotel’s Manchurian Chicken. As we completed a […]
by Sami Khan on Aug 28, 2013
