“Chedirina Kala” by Tanmayi Jarubula.
- Project Type: Director of Photography – Short Film
- Location: Bangalore
- Year: 2023
- Tools Used: Sony A7iii (s-Log), DJI Ronin
“Chedirina Kala” meaning ‘Shattered Dream’ is a short film by Tanmayi Jarubula (her directorial debut) made for her pre-graduation project (7th semester project) at Srishti Manipal Institute in October 2023. I worked on Tanmayi’s crew as the lead Director of Photography, alongside Suryadevsinh Parmar.
As the DP, I worked closely with the director to bring her vision to life, from breaking down her screenplay into shots, storyboarding them, going on several location recces to find places that best matched her vision and taking test shots to finally executing them on the shoot days. With Surya, I carefully blocked each shot and setup dual-camera setups to maximize coverage wherever possible and keep options open for Tanmayi at the post-production stage. I framed every shot to try and make it the best it could be while still adding to the narrative.
FILM SYNOPSIS:
Kala, freshly out of job, scrambles to find another in order to make ends meet for herself as well as taking care of her familial duties. During her job-search journey, her worldview changes drastically, with far-reaching consequences on her character and personality.
CAST:
Vaishnavi Ramanujam as Kalavati
Mable Thomas as Archana
Yamini Siva Jyothi and Vani Kumari as Ladies at First Entrance
Suseela, Narayanamma and Venkatapthy as Workers
CREW:
Writer, Director, Editor – Tanmayi Jarubula
Directors of Photography – Ved Murarka, Suryadevsinh Parmar
Sound Recordists – Archita Wadhwani, Suryadevsinh Parmar
Production Designer and Manager – Archita Wadhwani
Executive Producers – Jarubula Sirish Choudhary, Yamini Siva Jyothi
Assistant Directors – Isha Thakkar, Anoushka Rege
Sound Assistants – Anoushka Rege, Sahil Sheikh
Production Assistant – Meera Savargaonkar
Casting – Amit Aggarwal (Webshorts Casting)
Project Mentor – Unni Vijayan
OTHER DETAILS:
Duration – 16 minutes and 54 seconds
Genre – Drama
Format – Digital (HD)
Language – Telugu, Kannada, Hindi
Some stills from the film.
Some behind-the-scenes process photographs.
Ved Murarka 