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On the movie wagon
A group of college students and theatre artistes drives through Delhi to make a film
It’s early morning and Nikhil is driving his girlfriend Preeti to her office. As he drives through the crowded Delhi streets, the car becomes a claustrophobic private space where simmering tensions surface. An intricate tale of entangled relationships unfolds with the stationary camera focussing on the windshield and the protagonists in the car throughout the 29-minute film, Going Straight. Delhi serves as a backdrop to this complex tale.
Going Straight has been shot by a group of college students and theatre artists based in Delhi. Sahil Chatterjee, a post-graduate student at JNU, recounts their filming experience: “We got an old camera from a friend’s place and downloaded an editing software from the net for post-production work. The movie was shot entirely inside my Wagon R car. We pooled in the rest of the expenses such as petrol on our own.”
This dialogue driven movie unfolds in real time and was shot without any cuts. Some dialogue had to be improvised as there were unexpected traffic jams on the roads. Interestingly, the protagonist of the film, Nikhil, drives through the city but the audience hardly gets to see him.
Clifford Alonso, a 19-year-old student from Sri Venkateswara College, who played Nikhil, was initially hesitant to play a closeted gay character. For 24-year-old Ghazal Javed who plays Preeti in the movie, it was a welcome break from her regular work in a production house. This group of youngsters aims to promote the movie on a larger scale but is short of finances.
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