Monday, November 25, 2013

Movie on Indian Metaphysics

A screenplay with starts with a climax and ends with another climax, Neti Panchatantra will start on December 11th 2013 and Sciensation hopes to complete it within four months.

Central Idea: All threads and journeys converge into a quest for metaphysics, via consilience. Threads are metaphorical- Optimism versus Pessimism, Leadership vs Dictatorship, Trust-Confidence love-story, Perfection-Benevolence love-story.

Spoiler-Climax: India excelled in Ayurveda, Natyashastra, Ganitha and possibly all ancient spheres of human-excellence. This is neither a coincidence nor a reflection of Indian IQ, but a fruit of Indian metaphysics. Possibly the greatest education system on this planet, was killed to diminish the source of our enlightenment, spread ignore and hence oppress us.

Bottomline:  When you pursue anything, once you hit the threshold, you go through an outward spiral and travel with excellence, at an exponential pace. How do you understand the soul within, to hit this threshold- Indian metaphysics

Marketing: We hope to circulate this film through Youtube/School libraries/VCD portals, cyber-cafes etc. We hope to sell advertising space, integrated with the script.

Production: Lighting through home-made reflectors and adjustable stands. Minimal outdoor shooting.

This project will reflect Sciensation's ability to produce long script, with practically no expenses involved and to market short film, an industry which doesn't exist today. Sciensation's film production and finance would be checked!

Existing Team:
Lyrics: Tejaswi Monangi(song will be released soon)
Editing: Nihar Kartik Mamidipudi
Writing and Production- Tarun
Music- synthesize from tracks, riffed off from the internet.
And quite a few critics!

What we are looking for:

Passionate Actors who can understand the spirit of the film and the depth of their character. We put in a lot of efforts in characterization and dialogues, we don't appreciate change in prescribed content/tone.

Cinematographer
who understands moving-composition,aesthetics(mood) and action-continuity.

Sound Designer who can design the audio tracks, to help in reinforcing the created space(in the scene) and maintaining free flow of time, across the film.

Music Composer who can create a mood appropriate for the scene. We would be having 3-4 songs too.



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POST SCRIPT
Society, Money, Spirituality, Education-system, Social-service, economic equality, passion

Dr Anjaneya Prasad: A scientist by training, journalist by profession, pursuing a Utopian dream- a rama-rajya(in terms of governance and societal fabric).

Dr Satyanarayana Murthy a.k.a Media Murthy: An alumni of IIT,IIM and Chicago-Booth (the school from which India's latest super hero comes!), pursues an understanding of money. He is a personification of the animal spirit-Money Illusion. (#AnimalSpirit6)

Dr Vishnu Sharma, PhD from Stanford, faculty at IAS Princeton,a logician, who pursues spirituality.

Shamil- an IIT graduate, who is seeking to understand Indian education system and pursues a change.

Devaki- a techie who sacrifices a great career to pursue social-service.


Trust- Lead heroine, a medico, who pursues economic inequality. A rare sight- a student of medicine understanding economics.

Confidence-Lead hero, comparable to Lord Hanuman- who brought the whole mountain as he couldnt find Sanjeevani. The most lively character in the film. Pursues his kick.
 
Surya a.k.a Suryabhai, the antagonist, comparable to Lord Shiva- the destroyer, the one who chopped Daksha(rules/organization)'s head and replaced it with a goat-head. He pursues an ideal society, through power. Surya and Anjaneya Prasad share the same goal.






Sunday, November 10, 2013

Biryani Boys



How to build a great team?
May be we need great players!
May be not! May be a Kabir Khan!
Hell Yeah! You know what!We need the rebels!


The crazy ones who see beauty
The insane ones who question dogma
The cool ones who need enable consilience

The awesome ones who always deliver perfection

But why do we need them?
Well, look at the Utopian dreams we have
Do we really need to consider them to be dreams
May be not, if we have an army, which we are building!


What is Biryani Boys?
Biryani Boys is a campaign launched by Sciensation, across several educational institutions, with the goal to induct people into their team.

Who is Sciensation and What do they do?
Sciensation aims at taking science to various types of audiences, in a way they can understand. Our short-term goal is to improve school level science education.

What is Consilience?
People with arts background get you red dots and science people get you blue dots. When you connect diverse dots, non-linear solutions emerge.
 If teamwork emerges from trust, Consilience is the next level, it emerges from insanity.

Why am I made to read this?
We are giving talks at several educational institutes of the country. This would provide us an opportunity to reach the insane and get them on-board. We need your help, in arranging a talk, at your place.

What are the talks based on? 
The content depends on the type of people we are scouting for. For instance, we would be looking for designers at an Arts Department and the talk would emphasize on our notion of Design.

Science Institutions: Making scientific idea-exchange intuitive
Engineering: How consilience can transform engineering
Commerce: Alternate Revenue Models
Management: Evolution of HR and its future
Design: The language of Design, an entrepreneur's tool
Law: Entrepreneur- messiah of the Capitalist age

What is Sciensation working on?

Operation Economics:
What does this ten rupee note in your hand mean? 
What is inflation, is it bad? What do the central bankers do? 
Socialism or Capitalism, how about the Swedish model?
Is it too complex? Do we need to understand this? Can we delegate these, to the economists?

The world is progressing, anchored by an economic lens. An important prerequisite for a vibrant economy is economic literacy. This operation involved development and delivery of popular-economics content, at various levels. Economics will reach the masses, atleast as long as the Biryani Boys get going!

HR Rancho: The best designer does HR and may be designing! The best player, a people's person, as a HR. Building the A-team needs HR Leadership and needs revisiting HR Management.
Jack Welch, ex-CEO of GEO, feels that Director of HR must be  right next to the CEO, in the hierarchy. However, they are relegated to be the health and wellness party. Not for long, the Biryani Boys are coming!

Design Steve:  People expect you to deliver, before they can trust. Product building means risk. Risk is about promise. We need to show promise.We need design to show that. Design helps in telling the story about the future, which we are going to create quite soon. 

Design is about feeding visual cues to the inherent abilities and hence position the product, in the mind, at the place where it has to be. This is not Design, this is spirituality! Hell yeah! Biryani Boys will get going!

Crazy Engineering: We make crazy system of gears on which the marketing material is placed. Who said the bones don't have life? Only crazy engineering-solutions enable craziness, with love, from Biryani Boys.

Marketing: Marketing has been evolving with several technological revolutions changing communication. This calls for Marketing 3.0. At sciensation, Marketing is integrated with content development.

There is an opportunity out there.
If we can realize the possibilities.
But that needs Consilience.
which needs the A-Players
This is the hunt for them
The Biryani Boys are waiting!