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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 Director? 

5. First film experience & learning the basic things on set.  

6. Discussing money & struggle to find work. 

8. Skillset in Advertising Vs a Feature long 

9. Discovering Guru Dutt as a filmmaker later in life & growing up around world cinema. 



Karuna's IMDB 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4435585/



Gouri's IMDB 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7365121/



If you are someone who is struggling to navigate the Hindi film industry with work or questions regarding a specific department, you can get in touch with us on takeswildtapes@gmail.com



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Produced by Nikita & Saadgi

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, mostly the chaos. 

4. The archival value of his work. 

5. What are the kind of briefing he receives from producers, marketing and sometimes, directors before the film shoot begins. 

6. His relationship with crew members on set, especially actors. 

7. And absolutely important discussion about IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) that exist in every crew members contract and how much this holds self value and how we view our own work.

You can check out his work on below links:

https://khamkhaphotoartist.com

https://www.instagram.com/khamkhaphotoartist/

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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 Instagram. 

- The value of commercial and branding in content making.

- His podcast with Anand Gandhi.

- Milestones of Humans of Cinema.

- Future of Humans of Cinema.

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Humans of Cinema Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4eSllaGhsxuLPoHA25fZu3?si=8XpAb13ERV2SYM-mvQJQHA

Humans of Cinema Instagram - https://instagram.com/humansofcinema?utm_medium=copy_link

Humans of Cinema Youtube - https://m.youtube.com/c/HumansofCinema

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 working with a small crew.

3) The process of writing Eeb Allay Ooo! and other commercial projects.

4) Is it necessary to be a professional writer to write a film?

Trailer of Eeb Allay Ooo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HDLJMtwww

Eeb Allay Ooo streaming on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/search?q=eeb&jbv=81354909

DISCLAIMER: The audio quality of this episode is poor.

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 come from?

4) Capturing the mundane in everyday life in his work & why issue based subjects get easily picked by everyone. 

5) The idea of being called "socio-political" artist on social media and why he isn't one. 

6) Response to his work on social media, stories on the first video that went viral and how the love from the audience makes it all worth it. 

7) Assisting in the Hindi film industry and how it is an oppressive and corporatized system. 

8) Caste and class inside the Hindi film industry and the structure of distribution where you rarely see diversity. 

#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 up on sets and  how working on the show ended up becoming a school of life.


Produced by Saadgi & Nikita
Podcast Edit by Nikita Nevatia
Creatives by Vikas Singh
Original Music by Devraj

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