The very first episode of the show went on air today – the curtain raiser. Cogito’s first show on Hindi Entertainment television. I directed. Shishir was Technical Director and Shirish the Financial Controller. The first episode with Adi Godrej was supposed to go on air today.<\/p>\n
The channel told us on Thursday that instead of running the first episode they want a Curtain Raiser – so that more time can be devoted to promoting the show. We agreed. And it has been a completely mad 3 days.<\/p>\n
We shot with Shobhaa De on Friday – and the same evening we began our edit. We shot for 4 hours. Edited for 18 and last nights rush to the channel to deliver the tape was out of a film.Tempers were fairly frayed. I snarled at someone who asked why 18 hours for an edit of a 23 minute show.. I think i told him that he was talking like a MBA:).<\/p>\n
To compound the confusion, dad got admitted back to hospital with a galloping heart rate. Was in the ICU, and now out of it.<\/p>\n
But, all that’s well ends well. The show went on air. Apparently Samir Nair of STar viewed it and liked it. Feedback has begun. Mostly good. some constructive:).A lot of people have liked the sets and the lighting. They have liked the spontaniety of the show. I would like a better control on the content – which rambles when it comes to specifics. A lot of hard work coming up – and a tremendous balancing act – the channel , the assigned producers , us , and the anchor.<\/p>\n
Everytime I do one of these completely crazy production schedules, my mind flashes the old Chinese curse – may you live in interesting times. I really must have fucked someone’s trip in my last life.<\/p>\n
Need to start meditating again before I take someone’s head off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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