Thursday, 26 April 2012

Asia’s cleanest Village- Mawlynnong




We are never sure if this documentary can ever be presented in front of you all or not. But finally it is done with lots of hardship and masti.We, Sumi, Jharna, Newme, Adrija, Rajashree and me headed our journey to Shillong with an idea of shooting for the promo vedio on Shillong tourism which was their part of course excluding me. I and Sumi are the cunniest ,in the backdrop of our mind a plan played.Lets make the trip more adventurous by making a documentary.

 And in this way the idea came.But the idea began to fluctuate.Can this be made possible?This question haunted us till we are in the way to Mawlyynnong.We had a comfortable stay at Jharna’s auntys house. Her cousin Nipasha helped us a lot from pre production to post production.She searched the map of Shillong and made us aware that we cant shoot Cherrapunji and Mawlynnong at the same day because of its diverged route.The day finally came when we have to conquer our mission.Aunty served us breakfast and we 7 hired a sumo and went for the shoot.The picturesque beauty in the way to mawlynnong catched my fancy. I didn’t miss a single chance to click the photographs.The sumo driver was a bit unhappy with us as we are irritating him with a stop after every 5 to 10 minutes of our journey.We have a vague idea that we have to shoot anything and everything.Atleast we can select the best rushes from the rest.

Finally we reached Mawlynnong.And we are really attracted by its cleanlness and beauty.We met a batch of 1970 of IIT Madras,who has deliberately made a plan to visit the northeast india.We started our shoot in the village with them.The biggest hardle with us was to communicate with the natives.But that too was also solved when we got a small boy as guide, who could understand English atleast.By and by we proceeded and somehow tried to bring u "The Gods own Garden"..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73wdGtHF0w&feature=share


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