How The Deed Was Done

After a great deal of procrastination, four days to be precise, I have finally sat myself down to write my impression of the first Frame TwoFive meeting in Mumbai on the 4th of feb at the NCPA.

To be honest, I was somewhat looking forward to this meeting... it had been some time since I'd connected with the mothership (as Kavita calls it). So there we were on an unusually windy evening in mumbai at the NCPA, students and ex-students trickling in steadily and before we knew it 30 odd people had gathered.

The first thing on the agenda was to find a suitably non-windy place to have the meeting. That done, we all sat down and Arun introduced the concept of Frame TwoFive. People on this forum already know what Frame TwoFive is about. Even I knew about it before I had gone for this meeting, but the experience of huddling around with fellow students and hearing Arun's call-to-action-in-the-name-of-love-cinema-and-NID made the idea more vivid and engaging.

Arun's speech was reminiscent of Mel Gibson's in Braveheart. A spirited effort to regroup and channelize the energies of a scattered group of individuals to a common cause, that in the end would benefit all. And, like true Scotsmen, once the meeting got over, we were all left with the big question- "Where can we get some beers?"

Jokes aside, Arun has done his bit, and its a fantastic thing he has done by getting us all to meet. Now the onus is ours.The next meeting of Frame TwoFive shall be organised jointly by Hitesh and myself, sometime around the end of February. And for all you Scotsmen out there... "the beers are in the fridge!"

- Pryas Gupta

Hungama Bombay Ishtyle

THE MISCHIEF MAKERS:

Chitra Sharma
Deepali Kane
Geetika Juyal
Hitesh Kewalya
Mrudangi Jasani
Nirmala Nair
Partha Chakrabarty
Pia Goswamy
Pryas Gupta
Rajat Nagpal
Rohit Dubey
Ruchi Bakshi
Shwetabh Verma
Junuka Deshpande
Pallavi Arora
Megha Lakhani
Akhila Krishnan

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Aastha Gohil
Prachi Mokashi
Sarah Dacosta
Sushmeit Nambiar
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Aditi Banerjee
Ahsam K.R.
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Arun Gupta

Photo: Pryas Gupta