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Frozen: B&W film by Shivajee
Film-maker Shivajee Chandrabhushan talks about his black-and-white film, Frozen, shot in extremely harsh weather conditions at Ladakh.
From among the 14 film-makers who are featured in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, Shivajee Chandrabhushan is the only Indian film-maker who has made a black and white film, Frozen.
The plot is based on life in Ladakh and was shot in extreme weather conditions, in minus 30 degrees Celsius, at an average height of 1500 ft above sea level.
Shivajee selected the actors on the basis of their physical fitness, so that they could put up with the extreme climatic conditions, the senior most being actor Danny Denzongpa.
He says, “Dannyji (Danny Denzongpa), though seniormost in experience and age, underwent training for over two months before we began with the shoot in the extreme weather. Finally, he was the fittest of all.”
The director says that he wanted to make the film in black and white, in the interest of creativity. He had the B&W film processed in a lab in Los Angeles. “We shot the film in colour, then converted it to a digital intermediate so that the whole film could be processed in black and white later. After shooting the entire film, I tried to get it processed at many labs in India, but nothing worked to our satisfaction. It looks like nobody makes black and white films in India anymore. Finally we had to go to the US.”
Organising the logistics of the film was tough; the production team had to carry everything from a bucket to mobile toilets all the way from Mumbai to Ladakh, where the entire film was shot in about a month.
“Even the water was frozen in the pipes but we ensured the unit had hot food and tea all through the schedule. It was an expensive and tedious process but finally I am happy with the output,” says the director.
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