December , 2005
Whatever it takes.....!?
If Neha Dhupia tells me that she's wearing Victoria secret...i wanna be able to ask her if she bought the label from chor bazaar and just stuck it on.... What does it take.... fun in the news room, a fab-a-dab time when you're writing your script....a quirly sense of humor when you're getting a sound bite just so you put the other person in a fix..they make a strange sound on camera....hunt for the right words...and you pick the most unintelligent thing from what they've said....WHATEVER they've said.....and make a tongue in cheek VO dedicated solely to their madness....! And to "Question everything.."...is great fun especially..if these are questions the P3 types wanna escape....so its wrong, immoral, unethical even...to ask such personal questions...What you need to ask is...How much did your botox shot cost you..and then watch them spill the beans! Anyway, back to the label sticking....
Do you say "Wasssup?!"
So you've got a script in one hand, an EM in the other....and some footage that you've just grabbed from the library...you might meet seven hundred people on your way from the edit bay to the MCR...yet the one thing you'll probably say to all of them....without any real intention of getting an answer...is "Hey...wassup" ofcourse the beauty of that one line lies in the fact that although it is a conversation starter...it actually provides very little room for conversation..and is most often met by..."nothing much"...i mean when was the last time you asked anyone.."ssup" ...and they blurted out everything from how the maid is over charging them, to how they've run out of people to make out with...and how they're just wearin dirty underwear......"ssup" i think is great because it saves us both the agony of having to narrate or put up with some sudden information about a....




























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