The Implementation

After our initial discussion, we thought of implementing the same as our film topic since it was our only choice now. The first and foremost problem in this was selecting a location. Since the story of VIKALP is based on schools, our location had to be a school; and nothing else would’ve been better than St. Teresa’s academy, the school from which we had passed. We had very little time in hand and work was surplus. It was 15^th of November, 2011 around 3 in the afternoon when we started working on our movie.

First thing we did, we went straight to the school. Luckily, it is a convent and our principal and most of the staff are nuns. They live in the premises itself. After much pleading and requesting the principal for about half an hour, she finally gave us permission to shoot because we had wasted her precious time and she wanted to waste no more.

We decided to begin the shoot from the next day. Now, the task in hand was finalizing the cast. I decided to play the protagonist myself since the story was mine. For the role of the main bully, we decided upon a classmate of ours, Madhusudan Sharma. He had zero acting experience and did not know anything about film making or acting, but there was one quality in him, and that was his ability to grasp. We talked with him, he agreed, reluctantly.

Another great friend and neighbor of mine is Ankit Chaudhary. So, around 8 in the evening Ashish, me and Madhur decided to shoot the initial portions in Ankit’s house. All the makeup, costumes, props, and accessories used in the film belong to Ankit and without him; the movie could never have been possible.