
THE STORY & EMOTION
The Film in Four Chapters Location: The Fern Resort, Gandhidham | Mandvi Beach | Rann of Kutch Film Duration: 22 minutes They'd known each other for four years. But not in the way you think. Their families knew each other. So they'd been in the same room—weddings, functions, festivals—for years. Polite strangers who shared a social circle. Then one day, both families decided: "Why not?" It wasn't arranged. It wasn't love. It was something in between. Intentional intersection. They went on a date. Then another. Then twenty more. Somewhere around date seven, Prashant told his mother: "I think this might work." Around date twelve, Anamika told her sister: "I think I'm in love." By the time they got engaged, they'd been dating for a year but had known each other for five. This is the story of time. Of proximity becoming intimacy. Of patience becoming certainty.
CEREMONIES
THE BROTHER During the pheras—the seven circles around the fire—we had two cameras. One on the couple. Standard. Expected. One roaming. Looking for story. That roaming camera found Anamika's younger brother. He was watching the pheras. Then suddenly he wasn't. He turned. Walked away. Fast. The camera followed. Didn't know why yet. Just instinct. He went to a side corridor. Stopped. Put his hand over his face. He was crying. Not the happy crying you see during bidaai. The real kind. The kind you hide because you're a Thrity-eight-year-old guy and Indian weddings don't give men permission to fall apart. The camera held on him. Thirty seconds. Didn't move. Let him have his moment. Then he wiped his face. Straightened his kurta. Walked back. That sequence—the walk away, the crying, the return—is the emotional climax of the film. We almost didn't catch it. This is why we don't stage anything. Because life stages itself better than we ever could.
The Approach
Gujarati weddings have garba nights. Dancing in circles. Dandiya sticks. Organized chaos set to rhythm. But this wasn't just dancing. This was three hundred people from two families who'd known each other for decades, celebrating the fact that two people finally figured out what everyone else had suspected for years. We shot this wide. Let the movement create the composition. Didn't try to beautify it. Just documented the joy. The chapter in the film is called "The Rasleela." Not because it's religious. But because it felt like what those Krishna-Radha dances must have felt like—community, rhythm, devotion. We must talk about the Mandvi Beach Huge shotout to Nikhil, Anamika's Brother , who planned this. We reached their 5am. Empty beach. Fishing boats returning with the night's catch. They walked. Held hands. Stopped to watch the boats. Sat in the sand. We shot from distance. Let them be small against the ocean. A little decoration. The film has this section in the mid, just take the breath ways. Before any faces. Before any names. Just two people on an endless beach at dawn. It tells you everything about how they are together: comfortable in silence, unhurried, content with simply existing beside each other.
Team Behind
1 hour 22 minutes. Longest film we've delivered. But we needed the time. Four chapters. Multiple locations. A brother's breakdown. A couple's quiet love. You can't rush that. Some films are symphonies. This one is a novel. THE CREDITS The Couple: Anamika & Prashant - For understanding that the best love stories take time Our Team: Lead Cinematographer: Ashish kabir, Vatsal Editor: Ashish Kabir Photographer : Mayank Outfits : VIBHU by Jyoti Kewalramani Special Thanks: The Fern Resort, Gandhidham Mandvi Beach - For being empty when we needed it The Rann of Kutch - For existing Anamika's brother - Nishant - For everything. Shot over: 6 days Edited over: 60 days Chapters: 4 Tissues needed during the premier : 7
Their combined vision and dedication brought this ambitious project to life, with every frame reflecting VYZN’s belief that cinema is the ultimate language of storytelling.
SHOOTING STYLE
The Challenge: How do you structure a film when the story isn't linear? Answer: You don't. You structure it by emotion. The Four Chapters: Chapter 1: THE FAMILY Getting ready. Parents watching. The history before the event. Chapter 2: THE RASLEELA The garba night. The community. The celebration. Chapter 3: THE AFFAIR The actual wedding. The brother crying. The pheras. The intimacy within the chaos. Chapter 4: THE FAREWELL The bidaai. But also the beach. The Rann. The suggestion of what comes after. This isn't chronological. It's emotional. The film jumps between wedding day and landscape shoots. Between close-up and infinite wide shots. Between chaos and silence. It's not confusing. It's intentional.
The LOCATION
Gujarat. Specifically: the parts tourists skip. Gandhidham isn't on anyone's destination wedding list. No palaces. No Instagram backdrops. Just a quiet industrial town where people actually live. But thirty minutes away? Mandvi Beach. Endless. Empty. The kind of beach where you can shoot for hours without seeing another human. An hour beyond that? The Rann of Kutch. White salt desert that looks like another planet. And threading through it all? The Khadi River. Quiet water. Fishing boats. Sunsets that don't quit. We shot the wedding at The Fern Resort (serviceable, clean, forgettable). But we shot their story across the landscape. Because sometimes the venue is just where you sleep. The location is where you become mythic.
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