GIRLS NIGHT (2024) — PART 1
I met Dot on The Archies in 2022, and we kept saying “we should make something” till we actually did. We first made a video called ‘Spiced Lemonade’ with a zero budget. We just wanted to make something!
This was also at a time when I had no idea what I was doing with my life but I had visuals in my head that needed to get out of there.
Later in 2024, Dot. sent me this track and it instantly felt like every girls night I’ve ever had — not the aesthetic version, the real one.
I knew I need a backstory to the girls - there needed to be a sense of loyalty, and commitment towards this girls night, regardless of what they were doing. When the girls need you, you go!
So we had the Chef with Anger Issues - Aksha, Cool mysterious Cat Lady - Shibangi, and The Star returning back from the award show - Dot.
They start the night with a little unwinding, bras are tossed away, the ciggy has been lit - masti begins.
They put on skits for each other, portraying what their dates looked like which is where we squeeze in all the masti. We had the most fun shooting these. The sumo wrestling scene especially <3
Interspersed with real and surreal, the video has a graph that always keeps you on your feet.
the level of detail in this film makes me very happy:)
— the wrestling ring is literally made from living room objects (nothing is random) courtesy
@pappukaana @shalmolee.m :* a lot of foreshadowing throughout
— there’s a magazine early on that lowkey foreshadows the whole sumo wrestling sequence later
— the costumes also are extremely detail oriented, you may notice during the skits, the layering of the home costumes and the skit costumes balancing the real & surreal, created by
@gaurii77 &the pull away dress!!
We had around less than a lakh to shoot this video.
The only thing I could do was ask my friends if they would help make this. And they obviously pulled up <3
We did get some funds later on, with Sony coming on board and giving us their money lol. We spent it well if I may say so.
Continuation in Part 2