This guy (all of 23) out of Film school in Australia came back to Hyderabad and built a submarine with all his money (INR 30 lacs) and started shooting a (short) film, which eventually couldn't take off due to lack of funding, while his parents were still in shock that their lad was not graduated from B school but from a film institute. Building a submarine for a short film, grabbed the attention of many film makers in Hyderabad including Rana (actor and heir of Suresh Productions), they immediately called him to present the story board. Here is the twist, he presented the whole story board on temp 3D animation, which is pretty new practice in Tollywood. He did this to hide his incompetency to narrate the story.
Production house was so impressed that they decided to make this movie on National level and tied up with Dharma Productions. The initial start cast of Surabhi Theatre group were mostly replaced by main stream actors. Further, Cinematographer Madhi, Editor Sreekar Prasad were onboard to anchor "The Ghazi". Stalwarts of industry Amitabh, Chiranjeevi and Surya, provided the narration part of Hindi, Telugu & Tamil versions respectively. The end product resulted as a profitable venture with more than 300% in revenues commercially and tonnes of critical acclamation for the whole team & Sankalp, the Captain of Ghazi the movie.
What a platform for Sankalp to showcase his skills, who started a film (initially short) with INR 30 lacs, realizing that he wouldn’t go far and now landing in the laps of Karan Johar.
…..back story behind the story, why did he built a submarine?...because he wanted to film a story which can start and end at the same place to make best use of resources with shoe string budget.
Well, Sankalp has just started off his journey towards western filmy coast of Mumbai from coastal Andhra.....
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