Welcome back to another episode. In today's episode, we have Karuna & Gouri who have worked and rose up in ranks through Assistant Direction. In this episode we discuss the following:  1. What does a Creative producer do in the Bombay film industry?  2. Overview of what an AD does and how different people pursue this particular career (assisting) differently.  3. Discussing being on a Christopher Nolan set as an AD (Gouri).  4. What you need to learn from assisting about becoming a...

In this episode we sit down with Khamkha to talk about his experience as a BTS Photographer in the Hindi Film Industry and so many other things. He has worked on projects like Chhapaak, Manmarziyan, The White Tiger, Rashmi Rocket and so many more.  Overview of the episode: 1. How he ended up on a movie set through MAMI (Mumbai Film Festival) 2. How much of his earlier work & education has an impact on his photographers now.  3. What it's like to be an observer of everything on set,...

In this episode of Wild Tapes, the face and voice of the famous Humans of cinema, Harshit Bansal.  He started Humans of Cinema on Instagram as way to share movies impact on people's life and now he runs a podcast where he interview different filmmakers on their process of filmmaking.  In this episode, we speak to Harshit about: - Beginning of his Podcast, Humans of Cinema and pandemics effect on it.   - What is it like to be a Cinephile. - The boom of film appreciation pages on...

In this episode of Wild Tapes, we have with us multi-skilled Shubham who is the writer, director and actor. He was the writer and associate director of the well-acclaimed feature film Eeb Allay Ooo. The film has been well received at film festivals and has won The Golden Gateway Award and the Young critics Choice Award at MAMI 2019. In this episode with Shubham, we tap into: 1) The juxtaposition of filmmaking culture between the film industry and a film school. 2) The challenges one faces...

WELCOME BACK TO SEASON 2! In this episode we have Anurag Minus Verma who is a multimedia artist and also a Podcaster. He runs Anurag Minus Verma Podcast which is available on multiple platforms like Spotify & Apple podcasts.  In this episode we speak to Anurag about 1) His journey & relationship with Mumbai, JNU & FTII.  2) His experience & process of working with Amit Dutta as an editor for Drawn from Dreams.  3) The making of his video diaries and where does the style...

#spoileralert For the very first time, WTP called an entire team of Assistants for the podcast!! The Direction team of Mirzapur 2! In this episode, Saadgi and Nikita converse  with Raghuvanshi Malik, Zara Mann, Suraj Paraswani, Rohit Babu & Swayam Khanna specifically about what was it like working in  Mirzapur 2 after the huge success of the first season. They share various stories and anecdotes from the sets of Mirzapur 2 from working in difficult terrains, actor handling,  f*****g...

In the latest episode we dive in with Mrinal Chodankar on Line producing for advertising in India. We tap into:  1) What does a Line producer do? Difference between the Producer, EP and LP. 2)  Advantages and disadvantages of being a female Line...

In this episode (banter)  Nikita, Saadgi & Aniruddh talk and laugh through various topics such as:1) Madhur Bhandarkar.2) The decision of opening the theatre halls in midst of the Pandemic. 3) Working since the Film Industry is resuming work.4)...

In this episode, we took a dive in the Art Department of films & shows like Mirzapur, Leila, Hitchki, Pari, Sui Dhaaga along with our guest Kavish Handa. He has not only worked as a graphic designer but is an assistant production designer himself now. Through this episode we speak about how irreplaceable and unnoticed the work of the Production Design Team's work is while touching upon: - How does one enter the Art Dept and what it takes. - Graphic Designing for Film. - The...

In this new Episode, Nikita and Saadgi converse with Prarthana Ravikumar who works in the Bombay Film Industry as a Wardrobe Supervisor/ Associate Designer. Having worked on some of the biggest Bollywood films like Padmaavat, Bajirao Mastani, Dangal...

In this episode we converse with Rudra Joshi who has worked as a Production Assistant on films like Gully Boy and Toofan (upcoming). He is a graduate of New York Film Academy.We talked about: - If and how a Film School background helps in landing a job...

Podcasts for all things film sets and crew based in Bombay

In this episode, we speak to Durga Chitrak about assisting as a cinematographer on sets of Newton, Bhavesh Joshi, Bhaagi 2 and how much of a creative liberty we as assistants have. Also, we touched upon one of the barriers of being a minority in a majority world and how can we work beyond that. And between all of this we took the oppurtunity to discuss the question of who gives a CLAP on a movie set!

Wild Tapes brings to you some of the assistants and associates to talk about working in various films, commercials, web shows. Let's hear what it takes to execute a film and everything in between!

In this episode, we bring to you Ella Jaiswal who has worked in films and web shows like Neerja, Bhavesh Joshi, Ghoul and so many more. We speak to her about her journey of transition from being a 3rd AD to a 1st AD and how team is everything that matters on a set!