The Trifecta Conquered: Props, Characters & Costumes.

What we found

As the last leg of prep for the video begins, I'm delighted to see all the pieces come together; it almost feels like a magnetic nucleus attracting all these different components to itself to form a perfect little organism of its own.

With the city turning out to be a treasure trove of costumers, tailors, antique prop shops and fabric stores, I've found that with a big ol' smile and some broken tamil, it's become easier to keep things within budget whilst getting exactly what I want. With a brilliant crew toiling away on this project (a lot more on the crew in the next post) I feel super geared and psyched for shoot day: Monday the 29th of August. 

Tailoring the Look

Driving the point home with the tailor in three languages - Tamil, English & Tanglish.

Tailors trying not to laugh at my sketches and tamil.

This place took three days to track down. Felt like one of those models on ANTM that don't make the go-see cuz they're so lost. But when we found it, boy was it worth the hunt. More images of the costumes in the next post.

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Sketching out characters' costumes & finding fabric swatches.

Prop-Shop-Stop: I realize it looks like a big junkyard but this place was a find and a half. With a bit of crawling under furniture, standing on chairs and coughing and sneezing we found our little family of props.   

Might buy one of these babies for myself. Renting these just isn't good enough.

Vintage Fanfare.

The Big-ticket Find. Not a single key works but looks pretty damn good! 

All Photos courtesy of Ekta Saran, my beloved Behind-the-Scenes Co-ordinator. 

With Dance rehearsals in full-swing, it is as exciting as it is nerve-wracking. Let the footloose-ing begin! Anddddd Jazz Hands!