My father is a feminist, he just doesn’t know it. A thing I say to describe my father… is now a little ad film for Tanishq. And so I did what I know best, I gave little bits of my father and little bits of me to this little film for us, made so easy for me to direct because of @probableena and her writing.
A gang of ace women got together to make a Father’s Day film. Can you tell? Writer, EP, LP, Director, 1st AC, the entire AD team, Art, Costume, Casting, Brand team headed by women, Agency headed by women, I meaaan - Yes. (Thora post mein push karna padega next) and all the men on the team? The sweetest, kindest, nicest, most tender.
Basically team of my dreams meets cast of my dreams. I got lucky.
So here is a little team edit, same same but a little more.
Credit - 🌻
For Tanishq
Agency : Talented
Founding Partners : Prashant Gopalkrishnan & Binaifer Dulani
Creative : Leena Gupta & Manal Doshi
Brand Strategy : Shruti Patkar, Abhishek Kumar & Angelina Kurian
Films : Nabil Kureshi & Neil Mathew
Director : 🙆🏻♀️💕
DOP : Anand Bansal
Executive Producer : Ketaki Guhagarkar Surve
Producer : Amol Vaingankar
Editor : Yaser Abbas
Music : Shubham Shirul
Production Designer : Lauren Pereira
Costume Stylist : Khushbu Banerjee
HMU : Karan Singh
DA : Sanya Jagtiani
1st AD : Celina John
2nd AD : Kanika Belsare
Casting : Tanu Malhotra
Grading : Navin Shetty (Nube)
Online : Pranay Shedge & Ajay Parab (After)
Singer : Shubham Shirule
Sound Engineer : Soustav Naskar
Line Production : Tafreeh Studios
Line Producer : Mohammad Mubashshir (Moby)
Project Line Producer : Aafreen Inamdar
Production Manager : Jai Shahani
Post Producer : Pranesh Mhatre
Cast ♥️
Father : Varun Tewari
Daughter : Aiman Mukhtiar
Teenage Daughter : Akshara Padwal
Young Daughter : Yadaira Jain
Bubblewrap CFO : Veerendra Jha
Client : Tanishq
CMO : Pelki Tshering
Brand Manager : Ishita Shukla & Geetanshi Bhayana
Happy papa’s day, ya’ll! 🎈
It’s @thezeenataman ‘s world and we are just living in it. Made this in 2 days only and only because of the most amazing team (some old friends, some new) and the most incredible (and incredibly goodest) people from CRED.
Here’s to the team that pulled this off in - I repeat - two days.
A Moon Machine “CRED AD” featuring Zeenat Aman.
Creative Team : Hari Krishna, Neelaksh Mathur, Vinod Ravindranathan, Sreehari Krishnan, Surabhi Capoor
Writer (screenplay) - Director : Ria Singh
Executive Producer : Jerrin T Joseph
DOP : Harshvir Oberai
Associate Producer : Sandini Dhar
Offline Editor : Rajdeep Mitra
Secondary Cast Costume Stylist : Shimoli Kapasi
Secondary Cast HMU Artist : Satvinder Kalsi ‘Bubbles’
Production Designer : Bhavika Gandhi
Line Producer : Nirbhay Kumar
Production Controller : Velu Anna
Production Managers : Abhijeet Mohan Warang
Director’s Assistant : Saurabh Jain
1st AD : Sahil Punyani
AD Team : Suhrud, Probir Sabnis, Priya Shetty
DOP’s Associate : Arpit Bharde
Focus Puller : Zeeshan Shaique
Steadicam Operator : Umashankar Yadav
Indian Crane Operator : Ismail Punawala
Gaffer : Asif Khan
Key Grip : Iqbal Ansari
Sound : Anand Yadav
Assistant Costume Stylist : Piyeri Barot
Set Dressers : Mitsu Dalal & Krishna Gada
Art Intern : Avinash Nishad
Featured Cast : John Casting
Legal : Japneet Singh Chadha
Accountant : Satish Bhalsing
Post Team :
Grading Artist : Christian Levia
Assistant Colorist : Saurav Negi
DI Line Producer : Sanjay Gupta
Online Creative Head : Pranay Shegde
Online Artist : Darshan Tawade
Music Composer : Jimit & Soubir Moitra
Sound Engineer : Soubir Moitra DIT : Abhijeet Kundar & Om Prakash
Zeenat Aman’s Team
Manager : Zahaan Khan
Costume Stylist : Jahnvi Bansal
Makeup Artist : Pratiksha Nair
Hair Stylist : Ankita Varkhade
Additional Cast : Payal Patel, Aanya Dhingra, Sanskar Joshi, Alok Nath, Piyeri Barot
I bought my first jeans with maa and maa bought her’s… with me. Her first short hair haircut - me. First cocktail - me. First dress - me. First Japanese meal that she absolutely did not like - also me. And me? All my firsts are because of maa. And all my nexts for maa. 🤍
My maa came from a small world, but she raised me to believe the big world could be mine. And somewhere along the way, I started trying just as hard to make sure she gets to live in that world too. To make sure the little girl in her keeps dancing forever.
And so, this film, is so personal. To me, and to everyone who made it. And somehow, against the madness of saying yes, shooting and delivering the film - all in 8 days - I got to live my dream once again. I did it with and because of the most incredible crew, cast and friends.
I don’t know how to fully express my gratitude to the people who made this film, to the mums who raised them, to my mum, and to the universe for making THIS my job. The coolest gig in the world - where we get to take pieces of our hearts and share them with people to hold, to laugh, to cry and to feel with.
The film has found so much love already but here’s a litttttttle longer cut of a film about the litttttttle girls our mothers still are. 🤍
Happy Mother’s Day babies. For @districtupdates with -
Writer : @niharicabhalla
Producer : @vinayvgandhi
DOP : @rajivmalu
Casting : @romilmodi22
Editor : @sanchariii
PD : @rajpootshivani
Costume : @cha.loni
HMU : @takshaaa.gade
Chief : @dimplevc15
DA @allisleaf & @arun.skmr_
2nd : @__thandapani_
3rd : @teja_ka__sona
Grade : @sujithvijayan__
Sound designer : @soustavnaskar
Post producer : @anishkrishna97
LP : @akil6829
Music with my one ear Beethoven @amansagarr , sung so preciously by @this.is.gini and biggest love for making these two happen to bestest boi @sahnipranit & @molfamusic
And jhappis to my friends @zicdrop@ohnoitsjustmeaastha@aashna_alltheway@shahnawaz_mosani
Directed by 🙋🏻♀️
And more and more and more
For Maa. 💕
can I always, like forever, just tell love stories? can I spend my time screeching and screaming and aww-ing and melting and dancing and being… in love, around love… for love? because there is nothing, nothing else I’d rather do… than get together with beautiful, mad people and very seriously, very foolishly believe in the most magical thing the world has to offer - love.
And on this one, we had people with big beating hearts. the kind that loves and cares, that makes work feel safe & stories feel held. Client, agency, cast & crew.
this film has all their hearts in it and I feel very very lucky ~
Producer : @vinayvgandhi
Agency : @anusheela aakash, shubham
DOP : @brown__bread__
Editor : @shahnawaz_mosani
PD : @mobiusme
PD Team : @mrugakshi18
Costume : @gagabytanyasharma
HMU: @antarapathak
Grade Artist : @yashsoni.color
Client Cut Music : @amansagarr
Casting : @tanu_notanickname
Intimacy Dir : @vyaso
Music Director / Singer (client cut) : @amansagarr
Chief : @saahilpunyyani
DA : @manika__shah@janavi_sayani , @bhuummiikkaa ,
2nd AD : @__thandapani_@arnavnirvanh@kalikadhami
Food Stylist : Jyoti
Sound : @tommy8689
2nd Unit Director (Food) : @anahitavohra
2nd Unit DOP : Amit Rege
Post Supervisor : @thesuburbanlocal
Post Supervisor Asst : @yaanaa_kapoor19
Line Producer : @akil6860
Production Manager : @pranavshuklawho@manishvaishya@m.for.manya
Storyboard : @nishuupalan
Creative online Head : @pranayshedge
Online Artist : @laukiklodh
Graded at Studio Tunnel
Assistant Colorist : Vijay Nool
Gaffers : Hasan Mandol x Prakash Pais
Focus Puller : Simab Shaikhnag x Brian D'Souza
1st AC : Sanket Dolas
2nd AC : Mayank Gala
Lights : Light Craft
& the most beautiful two @__priyyajain__ & @sidharthmanojj (I promise I screeched every second of cutting this film, you two made the film :’))
Screenplay / Director : 🙋🏻♀️
By @happycrewfilms & Moon Machine.
for Borges.
with love
<3
Film sets are full of unsung heroes — the ones you rarely see, but can’t make a film without. Here’s Ria Singh’s beautiful tribute to the people that always have her back.
“When I’m caught in the whirlwind of creatives, there are a hundred problems that never reach me — not because they don’t exist, but because someone fixed them before the chaos touched the set. Because someone sat and made a master breakdown, someone dealt with difficult HODs and actors, someone coordinated juniors and their costumes, someone made sure everyone had every requirement and followed up on them, someone made sense of a mammoth shoot order and somehow fit it in a possible schedule (including lunch), someone took care of the action props, someone thought way ahead and thought for us: “There’s a hand shot, should we paint her nail?”, “Shouldn’t the camera be on the left shoulder, Ria?”, or “I think this is an axis jump.” Those “someones” are the people in the direction team.
A film’s beating heart.
So much of who I am comes from my past. I was once on that side — a wide-eyed, exhausted DA, doing ten things at once, wondering if the director even knew how much it took to hold their world together. Honestly sometimes when the random-est action prop I randomly wrote in a random script draft shows up on set, those times, I know. Now I know.
So this is my thank you: to the unsung young ones, the seasoned ones, the future Directors and Producers and Chiefs, the women and the girls carving out their own space. Thank you for being the spine of every set. “
Who are your spines? Tag them and let them know!
She cute but badass. She’d beat your ass. *makes a fist and shows ya*. I had been vainly sad about my face. About a possible scar, days of no sun I’d have to go through, about the scarfs and caps and bandaids and masks and steri strips and silicon sheets, about all my photos that won’t look like me, about how I keep hurting myself, falling, tripping, blacking out. But it’s been sometime and although I know in some more time this will be in the past - I like this version of me. I like myself. The version that went to work even even when she was told not to (stupid bitch), the version that did not stop taking selfies, the version that stopped cursing the universe (eventually), the version that feels good in her skin. It took so long to get here, and a stupid fall from grace cannot undo my therapist’s hard, hard, hard work. 😭
