Apharan (Kidnap) - Drama - Directed by Nikhil Sablania

Editor, Writer & Director: Nikhil Sablania, Camera: Debanjan Benarjee, Sound: Seema Shukla, Assistant director: Sudip Sengupta, Asst. cameraman: Barun De Jhordar, Shubhodeep Bhattacharya, Production: Bishnu Dev Haldar, Cast: Nikhil Sablania, Tannima, Shahid Khan, Producer: SRFTI, Support: Anshuman Chakrabarthy, Yuvraj Dheer, Ashoak Dhingra. Synopsis: Two unemployed youths plans to kidnap a rich girl get enough money to go to Singapore for a better life. But girl's father refuses to give ransom and this makes one of the kidnaper furious and he decided to rape the girl to teach her father a lesson. But love has already developed between another kidnaper and girl.
"This film was shot without any film related lights. The green tone in the scene where the girl wakes up comes because of real light source as we uses in the houses - fluorescent light tubes. The most difficult part for me was to act and direct at the same time and in all that the most difficult was the kiss and rape. We took two takes of the kiss, but you can see that neither I nor actress were good at kissing. I first time used Master take technique - introduced by Sudip Sengupta in the last hours of the shoot. There were more than 65 shots in the story board and only two days to shoot, eight hours each day. Makeup man was absent in the morning, somehow he came. On the second day the inside car shoot was difficult because of harsh light. We put a big black cloth to over the car get the shot. The rape scene was also very difficult. I rehearsed for two three days but we couldn't take it as I wanted. The actress was very supportive. It was a sync sound film thus we avoided dubbing. The scratches in the video are because this is a copied version from Steinbeck editing machine. I couldn't sleep continuously for two - two days. Thanks to Sudip Sengupta that he came on the last night of the shoot and helped in making the taking order, without which this film would be impossible. I enjoyed editing a lot in this film and it was editing of this film that I started learning film making" - Nikhil Sablania