Mita Vashisht Instagram – ‘You need to get more mainstream Mita…’
Photo shoot for FILMFARE magazine
Photographer: Vinesh Gandhy
Here I was, living now in Bombay …
I had to move to Bombay because I was shooting every single day of the first three years after graduating from NSD…and all the shoots were in Bombay…
Five films and several tv serials down the line ….’You need to become a commercial film star so we can keep making films with you…’ one of my iconic art film directors jokingly said to me one day…
He was in part serious, I realised.
My heart sank…’Why do I? You have already cast me in three of your films when I was absolutely unknown’ I wanted to argue, but bit back the retort.
(I knew already how tough it was for my directors to make the cinema they did…)
Anyway FilmFare magazine wanted a photo shoot for an interview so here I was….as usual, just me and my makeup-kit.
Vinesh Ghandy or Vinya, to his friends, was commissioned to shoot this portfolio.
This was my third photo shoot with Vinya, and as always, the preferred location was his simple, yet eclectic studio in Mahim where the sea waves would come crashing below his window.
The sound of the waves was the background music score as we clicked photos, sipped coffee and sometimes just gazed out at the sea.
Vinya is one of the gentlest people ever…we were probably the same age…however he had a maturity and serenity I didn’t…
I was then, as restless as the sea.
Spending time at Vinya’s studio an hour after each photo shoot was somehow enormously calming and I would leave Vinya’s studio with some of his serenity……or perhaps it was the sea making those mad waves outside the windows–
The sea was after all a presence more elemental and restless than I was….and who am I in front of it… | Posted on 18/Jul/2023 00:23:38
