I see TATAS everywhere!

I finally went to my internship!! I'll be interning on set of a UTV Spot Boy film called Peter Gaya Kaam Se, it's an action flick about a taxi bike rider from Goa. The title is a phrase in Hindi that means something to the effect of: Peter's in a LOT of trouble. I met the AD (assistant director for all you non-film folk) and the director (a British man named John Owen) today. I'd love to give more details about the story but I've been sworn to secrecy because the movie is still in production. I'm sooo excited about this and I think I'm going to end up learning a lot.

Another point to note about the locals here: yes always really means no. Do you know where this place is mr. rickshaw driver? yes, yes, yes....... um nope. Will this be done on time? absolutely..... not. I went to grab some movies from the mall today and, again for all you non-film folk, there are two things you need to look for when buying DVDs from other countries: the format (should be NTSC instead of PAL) and the region (where the DVD will play, the USA is region 1). I found an amazing stock of disney movies and I was absolutely ecstatic because you can't get these in the US due to Disney's commercially genius but HATED "vault", which basically means the original Disney movies are recirculated every few years in limited amounts to force people to buy them for escalated prices as soon as they go on the market. Soooo, they all said NTSC (check) but there was no region number. There was a small number in a globe that looked like it could be the region number but I wasn't sure. So, like we Americans do, I went to ask the staff. None of them knew what they were talking about, they didn't know what a region was, but every single one of them assured me that it would play in the US. Yes, yes, yes, yes...... aaaand NO. I kept the reciept so I'll return them, only one is opened, but it's pretty annoying. There are no straight answers and people are stubborn even when they know that they actually don't know what they're talking about. Welcome to India.

And, I know you're all wondering about the title of this blog ; ) .... well you all have dirty minds! There's a company out here that sells everything and it's TATA. It's posted on everything from electronics, to trucks, to billboard signs, to pencils. A couple days ago my friend Aamir blurted out "I see tatas everywhere", haha, we haven't stopped teasing him.