And Each Man Kills The Things He Loves

“And each man kills the thing he loves,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.”

                                                           -Oscar Wilde

       

After reading these lines the first thing that came in to my mind is that why has Oscar Wilde written such poem even though he was best known personalities during his time? He was one of the popular play writers. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, are some of the notable books by him. Then why did he feel that each man kills the things he loves. Then I read about him. And I came to know that his life collapsed after his lawsuit. Wilde was the one who instigated the lawsuit and therefore contributed to his own downfall - he killed the thing he loved. After imprisonment he exiled himself for three years. Such was his life. His much acclaimed novel ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, was written by him during those days. Even though from outside we might find his life colorful, full of happiness, success. But from inside he was alone. 

       And this is what Drawing Blood is all about. All artists have to experience pain before giving the world a masterpiece. Because, there is no gain without pain. The movie is an emotional ride of colorless life of an artist. It reflects the process that artists have to go through in some way or the other. The director of the film, Maha said “Artists make colorful paintings but many of them lead a pale life. Painters / Artists are free birds of imagination and creation, they tend to picture moments that they experience or envision onto their canvas. If unsatisfied with their paintings, they can erase them and re-make them. But they cannot design their own real life incidents nor can they erase them or dispose them as they wish just as with paintings. Trying to understand some artist’s lives, I realized that if they haven’t felt or experienced “pain”, they cannot make “paintings”. These thoughts made me come up with the idea for Drawing Blood”. 

                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                 - Prahelika Pai

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Independent Movies

   What makes movies  a blockbuster nowadays??  If the movie has entered the 100 crore club then whether or not it has a story or concept no one cares, all they look for is the “100 crore Club”.  And the most latest trend of them all “the 200 crore club” which in India are only two films i.e 3 Idiots and Chennai Express.

          “This is a commercial field. The commerce allows it today to push films such as ‘The Lunchbox’ and ‘Ship of Theseus’ with the association of names like Kiran Rao, Karan Johar or Anurag Kashyap. If these work on a more regular basis, it will be a welcome trend. If they don’t, then even the big names will not lend their names. However, it indeed is somewhere helping to create a base of audiences for such films,” Sarthak Dasgupta, director of The Great Indian Butterfly said. In India audience for indie films are very less and this is due to the fact that these kinds of movies are not promoted and funded well by people in the industry.

           Independent movies (known as Indie movie) are such movies which are distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers' personal artistic vision is realized. These kinds of movie are not produced by a high end production house neither are they distributed widely. These films are produced by people who are really passionate about hardcore filmmaking with a different concept and have a different point view from that of the world. Indie movies do not have raunchy item numbers or unnecessary dancing act. This kind of movies is what the society needs. Money making or being commercial is all the filmmakers’ want but actually filmmaking is an art which should have creativity first and followed by technology and business. The indie movies thrive on passion and innovation than the sale of tickets. And such is our Indie movie- ‘Drawing Blood’. It has emphasized on concept, on story which we can relate to our real life.

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How did DRAWING BLOOD happen?

> HOW DID DRAWING BLOOD HAPPEN? - By Maha (Director & Producer)

As India is celebrating 100 yrs of Cinema, is our Cinema industry truly making 100% good quality films???
The amount of importance given to having a STAR cast, the least is concentrated on good concept stories.
Formula driven love stories, monotonous mass films, item numbers, is this the future development of Indian cinema that we would provide to our further generations ??
Once upon a time, there was the control of good technicians over the Indian Cinema, and now its laid under the foot of corporate biggies in terms of productions.
Our entertainment strategies have erased the barricades between Commercial and Realistic film-making.
By designing a good concept, how many years of penance does one have to do to gain attention from a corporate support???
Since birth till now, i have seen plenty of Internationally acclaimed good Indian Indie classic films throughout history. But i still would not understand as to - Why does the great Indian stories always portray the slavery, poverty, prostitution, the marital dark affairs, women objectification, violent corners of the societal issues,etc. Everytime?!
Why are Internationally acclaiming Indie films by good Indian film makers not able to release their films in theaters in this country???
We live in such an age, where we give more time and importance to work, our gadgets such as smart phones, tablets, laptops, or even TV, etc. than over our emotions, relations, bonds, or expressing affection, etc.
The world itself is a wonderful painting created by the greatest artist, the Almighty God.
There are millions of artists on this planet, and each artist has a hundred stories inside of him/her. At one time, the artist may die, but his/her art remains alive. Are all the artists/painters really living happily?!?
I saw a few of their lives pretty closely, they create brilliant colourful paintings but their lives are colourless. If an artist does not like his work, he/she may easily erase it, correct it, or just remove it. But even if they wish , they cannot correct, redo or erase their incidents or memories in real life.
This very thought was made into a good concept story and named Drawing Blood, as i began working on it.
December 6th, 2012, we began the shoot of the film in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
Now the film's first copy is ready.
Me and my crew members-
Bheema (DOP), Kartik (Colourist), Murugan (Editor), Ramsay (Background score), Ramkey (Sound Designer), Kasa (Art Director) and VaayuDhwani (Dialogue Writer) rode on a struggling journey for 10 months to complete this film. At the end we have content-fully reached here.
It took me a lot of hard work and undue struggle to make this film. While i had no financier, nor am i a big producer. All i knew is that i believed in this film to happen, and with the love and support through my family, friends and well wishers i could make it this far. This film is made for everyone out there whom i wish to reach out and share it globally. But to fulfill that goal i need all the support that i can get from my dear artists,fans and people who are reading this.
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