Ghanan Ghanan From Lagaan | Anil Mehta | Inside A Scene
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2018
- Cinematographer Anil Mehta tells us about unpredictable forces that can affect a film shoot, and how the crew must work around them. In this episode of Inside A Scene, he tells us about shooting the song Ghanan Ghanan from Lagaan which is centred around the villagers waiting for the rains. Mehta elaborates on why he had only 20 minutes to shoot an entire sequence, the challenges of creating a cloud cover, and how the choreography had to be changed.
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This. This is the kind of video real cinemaphiles want to watch. Movies aren't just the actors on a promotion tour. They're a collaborative effort, a cocktail of multiple talents and attitudes.
So true.....it is so fascinating to hear these kind of stories.
These 6 minutes were a master class on effective problem solving. I love that he detailed the failures along the way and gave credit to all the cast and crew who collaborated. FC, thanks for the great discussion.
Actually the most interesting part of "Ghanan Ghanan" song picturization is the long shots and the perfect choreography.
You know instantly that he is sensible and intelligent and funny. Thanks for introducing such people to us 🙏
Great respect for film companion for showing such filmmaking aspects rather than stupid paparazzi, or box office collections.
Those music, those songs, choreography.....wohhh man i missed them so much...early 2000s was the last time these type of great calibers was witnessed in bollywood....
Damn i could listen to him talk all day
That's why Lagaan is what it is..... the passion & hardwork shows on the screen.
Jaswinder Singh Narula watch lagaan making chale chalo n you'll know the hardwork
Dude I've watched that when it first came out on DVD
This series from Film Companion is really great....and of course it would be Aamir who came up with the seed of the idea to solve the problem. He always says "film making is team work" and this illustrates that very well.
Anybody who enjoyed this video should watch Madness in the Desert, it's on Netflix!
This such an amazing video. Gives us insights into the very complicated process of film making. Great job FC.
Was really waiting something from Mr. Anil Mehta
This is awesome. Please bring this series more often.
Fantastic video. So much stuff that goes into making a scene,goes unnoticed during the viewing experience.
Thanks FC for these videos!
I've always been fan of Anil Mehta since very long time. He's an outstanding cinematographer, the best in India.
What a Guy ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Listening to Cinematographers has a separate fan base !!
Awesome sir. When I watched the movie I this particular thing really stuck in my mind that how the dances and camera movement is so much in sync. Thanks for explaining it today.
Damn. I can hear him speak for hours 🙌🏽
Great insights. Thank you Film Companion. You're really an institution for me.
i feel like joining films after this. lol. SO INTERESTING!
Fantastic! Loved this, Thanks FC!
Yes more inside content please very informative ❤👏
amazing
I was very young when I watched (and absolutely loved) this film. Only about 6 or 7, I think. At the time, I didn't really understand why I loved it so much more than other films- I guess it was instinctual. As I've watched it multiple times over the years, however, I've come to appreciate it much more in greater nuance. Only in very recent times have I come across so many professionals explaining how the various brilliant techniques within film-making made it what it was. The other day I watched one of AIB's videos where people from the First Draft talked about how they studied the finesse of this film. It's so interesting to finally understand the technicality behind the brilliance of the final product.
The making of the movie is also a beautiful thing to watch. Can't imagine how painstaking and troublesome shooting Lagaan must have been
Watch it if you haven't already
Heres the link
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Congrats film companion, u just got a new subscriber
Plz upload the whole interview. Eagerly waiting!
Today lyricist have gone, singers hv gone, music directors hv gone.. God knows where but we dont hv any of those talent left now... What we hv now salman khan as lyricist, badshah as music director, remo dsuja as film director,....
One thing i observed is that why we used hv brilliant lyricist n music talent n screen n dialogues writers in 40s, 50s-90s... Bcoz that time we hv those generations which was mad for sufi music, Urdu, Faarsi, poetry, kavaali... Problem with today's generation is they dont even know their own language hindi or whatever in proper way... And they hardly Urdu.. Urdu is very important language in terms of lyrics writing n dialogues writing... Now a days ppl dont hv that grip on their urdu... Second thing nobday of this generation has seen any freedom struggle.. The actual genuine whre ppl r dying, bleeding, starving... Its all fake fake fake world now..
Its not like these new age filmmakers are being loved its just that they are being shoved down the throat of the audience via marketing.....
It can clearly seen last year when a quality film( which also had beautiful music and songs) "Baahubali 2" wrecked a storm across Box Office and everyone else just withered away in that storm
Watch regional cinema. They are doing some really extraordinary work. Having said that, it's not as if people in the Hindi Film Industry are not doing great work. It's just that the good stuff is overshadowed by the shitty ones and are shoved down our throat by the sheer amount of over marketing and commercial appeal. If you look for the good stuff, you'll find it.
Raazi raid padmavati tere abba ne banai thi kya
pprreetttyyyyy cooool I like
that's why he is one of the best.
lagaan was pathbreaking movie
More please. Especially Mitwa / O Palanhaare.
MORE
Damn!!!
Funnn
anil mehta looks like hansal mehta
Geniune question, couldn't this problem be solved with some kind of filters? Similar to ND filters? Or am I missing something here..
I apologize if this is too late to be helpful.
Your doubt has been addressed in a reply to a comment above. The comment is by @Vinayak Vadlamani and the reply I'm pointing to is by @Priyanka Mukherjee.
P.S. - I miss the days when we could tag users in YT comments. :(
It was common sense yaar... The moment he said they didn't want to shoot in direct sunlight, I immediately said then shoot it in the evening... and it's obvious the cloth idea wouldnt have worked as the centre dips down and also the wind... Y didn't they think of these things while brainstorming before making the cloth? 🤔 Wierd...
You could have saved then millions, if you worked on lagaan
Hahaha I thought exactly the same! Shoot before sunset! They should have more women on film teams for some common sense advice 😂
This whole issue could've been solved by just a single ND filter
You really think these professionals with 20 years of work behind them didn't know this?
@Vinayak Vadlamani: Hi, no it wouldn't. A ND filter would drown out all the colours, do note that the costumes in this film are very vibrant, especially that of the women. That would require extensive CC later. Plus a ND filter also tends to create shallower DoFs, but in a song with multiple characters who need to be placed at varying depths of field, focussing on many of them together would become a problem,
Thanks for the clarification Priyanka. What would you use then in that case, today, diffusers? Or something in post?
Ugly police station scene ......