Five by Four | |
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Directed by | Roopa Swaminathan |
Screenplay by | Roopa Swaminathan |
Story 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 |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
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]
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]
Five by Four | |
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Directed by | Roopa Swaminathan |
Screenplay by | Roopa Swaminathan |
Story 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 |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
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]
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]