| Directed by | Roopa Swaminathan
|
|---|---|
| Produced by | Sunit Tandon |
| Starring | Divyadarshini Hardeep Minhas Preetha Eashwar Rao Cary Edwards Sapna Usha Seetharam |
| Cinematography | Ravi Varman |
| Edited by | S. Satheesh J. N. Harsha |
| Music by | Yuvan Shankar Raja
|
| Country | India |
| Language | English
|
Five by Four is a 2003 Indian English film written and directed by Roopa Swaninathan.[1] It stars VJs Cary Edwards, Sapna and Usha Seetharam, Eashwar Rao, television artistes Venkat, Preetha Raaghav and Divyadarshini and popular Kannada model Hardeep Minhas.[2] The music was by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by Ravi Varman.[3] The film in English was produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC).[4] It did not get a theatrical release,[5] but was screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Writers market at Santa Monica, and other venues.[6]
Cast
- Cary Edwards as Nayan
- Eashwar Rao as Ajay
- Venkat as the stranger
- Divyadarshini as Namitha
- Hardeep Minhas as Aishwarya
- Preetha as Shruti
- Sapna as Shikha Iyer
- Usha Seetharam as Meera
- Sujata Panju as Meenakshi
- Biniu Jha as Renu
- Prabhu as Martin
- Amar as Abhijeet
Production
Roopa Swaminathan signed up with Penguin and was writing short stories for a book. She thought the stories could be made into a feature films and approached the National Film Development Corporation of India.[4] The film consists of four stories about a gang of five girls.[7] She first named the film "Five String Quartet".[2] The film was shot entirely in Tamil Nadu.[8] The director planned to shoot the whole film in 25 days, but completed it in 18 days as she had rehearsed with the actors for nearly four months.[2] Swaminathan also wrote about her experience making the film in her book Stardust: Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry, which won the National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema.[9]
References
- ↑ Cinemas of India, Videos, Festival Participation & Awards, National Award, Regional Cinema, Independent Cinema, Art House Cinema, Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda. Nfdcindia.com.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 NFDC produces English film(2003-09-26).
- ↑ NFDC's English venture(2004-06-04).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A tale of two stories(2004-02-23).
- ↑ I want to write Rajnikant's biography.... Rediff.com.
- ↑ Department of English. Al.odu.edu.
- ↑ Tamil Nadu News : She beat Adoor Gopalakrishnan for the prize for the best book(2005-07-21).
- ↑ 'Five by Four' for Shanghai fest(2004-05-26).
- ↑ Five By Four. Flipkart.com.