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| Indian Filmmaker Vikkramm Chandirramani |
Vikkramm Chandirramani is an up and coming filmmaker from India, whose previous short film,
Destiny, a romantic comedy, not only reaped international film festival laurels but also is a viral sensation with over 4.2 million views on YouTube and rising. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the Ridgewood Guild International Film Festival in NJ, and being involved in films myself, I was fascinated by the differences between Hollywood and Bollywood. In this enlightening interview he talks about his roots as well as the roots of the film industry in India through his own unique lens.
Tell me about when
or how you decided you wanted to make movies. What was your schooling or
profession?
Vikkramm Chandirramani: I did my schooling
at St Dominic Savio, Salesians of Don Bosco at Andheri. After that I graduated
in commerce and got a Diploma in Digital Design. Thereafter, I learned
animation and editing. I contemplated getting into filmmaking at that point in
time. I had spent most of my life until then watching films. I was a voracious
reader and wrote because of my Dad, who was a prolific writer. I had a lot of
love for the medium, however, the entry barriers were very high. Movies were
shot on film and required expensive cameras. Although I had learned editing,
when I tried getting work, I realized they only paid conveyance money to those
with no experience. So I got into web design and development, building websites
for many companies that required an internet presence. Along the way, I started
my own websites and was writing for them.
