DirectorSpeak – Surya Vasishta on The Eighth

I’d written this 2 page script as an idea during the first lockdown to ‘shoot remotely’ as it was a thing back then. NGL, the Mahabharata re-telecast that was happening also had a role to play in the idea. But somehow, after writing this, I never came around to making it. A few weeks ago I found the script when searching for something else. And these marvellous humans made me believe it’s a good idea to act on it now. Life is beautiful when a bunch of people can believe in each others’ quirks and come together to do something just for the joy of it. Thank you guys – Ram, Shashank, Sam & Deepti. So grateful.

This time, of course, we didn’t shoot remotely.

Here’s a bit of trivia: In case you haven’t noticed, this film does not have a ‘Produced by’ credit. Because it was just five of us who got together for the fun of it, it just felt right that it belongs equally to all of us. And on behalf of all of us, thank you so much you all – I’ve (We’ve) been getting quite a lot of messages and calls – you know who you are, and every single word you’ve had to say has been very heartwarming to us. #Grateful!

If you haven’t yet seen ‘the eighth’, do give it a watch here ❤️🙏🏼