Yes, dreams do come true and nothing is impossible! Here I am sitting in front of my VAIO penning down my feelings for first day shoot of my first feature film as a Lead Actor! A couple of years back, most people loved my determination but only a handful actually believed (you could see it in their eyes) that I could do it and yes, I have done it with the support of people you can die for – Matte, Nikhil, Manav, Anurag, Capt. Jaswant, Sanjay, Rajiv, Amod and a few others (forgive me if I have missed out on any name). Was thinking of writing this blog a little earlier but was too busy to do anything other than managing production and other things. However, if I do not write today, I’ll miss this historic day of my life – from tomorrow, my lifetime career as a Lead Film Actor begins!

Since I got to sleep asap (Actors ko time pe sona chahiye…aur heera bhi ;), I’m just jotting down some info about our film in bulleted format:

• About Film
1. Name – WITH LOVE, DELHI!
2. Budget – Can’t write now but at par with Bollywood Movies like LSD, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Rock On!! etc., obviously about a few crores
3. Duration – 100min
4. Language -English (Will be dubbed in other languages as well)
5. Genre – Intelligent Thriller (When IITans write, it ought to be intelligent, hi hi :)) )
6. Shooting Ends – Early September 2010
7. Release Date – By about February 2011
• Key Cast
• Tom Alter (A veteran in films and theater and a Padma Shri awardee – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022758/) 

• Kiran Kumar (A highly experienced Bollywood Star – 200+ films – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474820/)

• Seema Biswas (Exceptionally talented Senior Bollywood Actor, won National Award in 1996 for Shekhar Kapoor’s Bandit Queen – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0084443/)

• Ashish Lal (Me, Myself, Myrene :)) )

• [Hush hush, Lead Actress under wraps for now…extremely talented and cute actress!]

• Key Crew
1. Producer – Ashish Lal, Ashutosh Matela and Manav Vigg
2. Banner – RedMat Reves Films Pvt. Ltd.
3. Director – Nikhil Singh (Apna jhakaas darling, IITan and Film School USCite)
4. Associate Director – Fazal Mehmood (All the Best, U Me Aur Hum etc. – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1892214/filmotype)
5. Cinematographer – Sethu Sriram (Salman Khan’s Wanted and Tere Naam, Nana Patekar’s Shakti and many more – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1236357/)
6. Background Score and Music – Sanjoy Chowdhury (Background Music for Jab We Met, A Wednesday, Zinda, Sarfarosh etc. – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1374769/)
7. Associate Producer – Ravi Sarin (Rang De Basanti, Peepli Live, Chak De India, Delhi 6, Veer Zaara and 120+ movies – http://www.ravisarinproductions.com/)
8. Editor – Namrata Rao (Vishal Bhardwaj’s Ishqiya, Dibakar Banerji’s Oye Lucky Lucky Oye and LSD and Yash Raj’s Band Baaja Baraat – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2886400/)
9. Story – Ashish Lal and Nikhil Singh
10. Screenplay and Dialogues – Nikhil Singh