Life! Camera Action...

Life Camera Action... is a familydrama film directed, written, edited, produced by Rohit Gupta in his directorial debut. Starring Dipti Mehta, Shaheed Woods, Noor Naghmi, Swati Kapila, John Crann, this ninety minutes quasiautobiographical film follows a young girl in pursuit of her dreams of becoming a filmmaker against all odds. The film received several awards and nominations. Its theatrical release was limited to film festivals. The film received directtoDVD release and subsequently on other video on demand VOD platforms.

Life Camera Action... is an inspiring story of Reina, who sets off to pursue a career in filmmaking without the consent of her parents. She is threatened to be disowned if she insists on her choice instead of doing what usually is the norm become a doctor, engineer or an architect. At the center of this family drama, Reina is faced with a hard decision She must give up her dreams to keep her parents happy or go against their wishes and follow her own path.Life Camera Action... started as Rohit Guptas tenminute short film assignment at the New York Film Academy that he expanded into a fulllength feature film. Amanda Sodhi, the cowriter of the film, in response to an advertisement had originally submitted a fifteenpage short film script titled The Last Shot loosely based on her own life.Gupta expanded upon the content, calling the extended version Life Camera Action... with The Last Shot becoming a part of it. The film was shot in guerilla style on Panasonic AGDVX100 in ten days and roughly edited on Guptas Mac Book Pro. It was filmed on an initial budget of around 4000 with money raised from his savings that was cleaned up with postproduction work costing several thousand dollars before its marketing and release. In an interview Dipti Mehta has said that in an informal meeting before the audition, Gupta thought she was not right for the part, although she was invited at the audition where he failed to recognize her at the first sight. Mehta did get the part and it became her debut film as a lead. ........

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