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Sex, Cinema and Lies - A Short Film  Reunion is a story of Two filmmaker friends who meet over one night for a casual chat which later turns into an egomaniacal fight. Big fan of film Deewar, coincidentally their names are Vijay and Ravi too. Ravi is a successful film director down south and Vijay is still trying his own luck. As the night progress, one event leads to another and more people are called to join in the Ego Parade This was basically a 125-page screenplay, for which I didn't have a budget to shoot so I decided to shoot the first 25 pages of the film just for the heck of it. I have started this film so many times and it never gets made, to remove the curse from it, I and my friend Raashul decided to shoot this one night.  Please share the film as much as you can and subscribe to my channel. Direction, Produced, Written, Edited, Sound Design: Shitiz Srivastava Associate Director: Raashul Tandon Operative Cameraman: Abhinav Kaushik Co-Producer: Nishadh ...

I was a big supporter of Kejriwal once and I am not alone. There are many like me. They all supported him once and now they don't. What happened? Well, politics happened. When a man for himself decides that he is great, his downfall begins. Kejriwal is new in politics and he is still trying to figure the thing out. His mistake was that he took politics as a mathematical game where if he played by the rules he will win. Play the victim card, show oneself as savior and the bigger organization as a villain. Unfortunately, politics is not a mathematical formula. The rules of the game in politics changes with the progression of the last step. You cannot play this game with the comfortable mind. You have to be awake all the time and you have to think in terms of what people really want instead of what you think they want. You may think that a poor person would not desire for anything other than food and if you give him food he will vote for you. The truth is human mind does not ...

Baahubali was a blockbuster in every sense. I didn't like it because as a screenplay writer I found too many faults, which I thought if avoided it could have become a legend of a film. But the film was entertaining and lead its own culture. A lot of people around me loved it. That is the curse of learning filmmaking that I have to carry my entire life, I see filmmaking from many points of view, not just entertaining. I do VFX for my films too and I know how difficult of work that is. Baahubali-2 does not reveal much in its later trailer, except the visual effects and close beauty shots of actors. But then that is the whole point of this film. I just wish that the story this time will be better to create its own standing. That is just my point of view and i know people loved the story otherwise how will u explain the "Katappa killed Baahubali" Craze. People were involved in the story, that is why it became such a cult. I trust Rajamouli as he is a brilliant director ...

So I finally made it. But I only shot 25 pages of the script. I tried to make this film for last six years and every time I tried to make it, it never got made. So an idea struck me recently that why not just shoot the first 25 pages of the script and take it from there. I talked to my friends and the production started but then again, it couldn't get made and as usual it let me disappointed. I started feeling like this film is a curse and will never get made. But Raashul, one of my closest friends in Mumbai and also one of the actors int he film kept pushing me to shoot it, with me acting along with his side. I didn't want to act in it or two reasons, First I am not a terrific actor and secondly, I wanted to concentrate on the direction in this film. But again, just like it happened with my first feature film, Amphigori, I had to act. Another problem arose, I couldn't squeeze my time for rehearsing the dialogues and since Raashul has rehearsed the dialogues so many ti...

Most people venture in business without knowing one basic formula - how to deal with people . In any business, you cannot escape dealing with people so it is imperative if one understands a little bit about human psychology before venturing in the world of business. Below given are the Ten Commandments which were postulated by a French conman Victor Lustig about conning people. The methods he used to con people in his time were the basis of these commandments. When I first read about him and his rules, I realized these rules not just work in the world of conman but also work like miracle in the world of logical legal businesses as well. These rules are about human behavior and understanding of person one is dealing with. It does reek of manipulation sometimes but speaking truthfully, business dealing and negotiations are all about manipulations and smart thinking. These rules if used wisely, can help to control one in a business meeting and help to influence and intimidate other pers...

Probably the most ignored case in India is how to impress a girl and there is no pragmatic approach explained anywhere where definite rules for dating and impressing a girl are mentioned. It involves one’s active participation, experimentation and talking to a lot of girls. I have found during my research, after meeting a bunch of girls and reading a lot of books on PUA, that there is a wafer thin line between a man being shy, unable to talk to a woman guy and a man who can get any girl he wants. The reasons are mostly psychological and the good news is that they can be can be easily resolved. Though, it might sound a bit contrived, misogynistic, manipulative and something against woman for trying to generalize them but after you will finish reading it, you will realize that it is not about woman rather how much you change yourself for her and how you present yourself to her so this is basically about you, which means “it’s you, not them”. Girls are all nice human beings and they a...