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Updated On: 03 February, 2010 08:05 AM IST | | As told to Sharmila Bhosale
Documentary filmmaker, stunning photographer, environmental conservationist and graphic designer. Anirban Dutta Gupta tells MiD DAY how he integrates wildlife with art and conservation with photography
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Documentary filmmaker, stunning photographer, environmental conservationist and graphic designer. Anirban Dutta Gupta tells MiD DAY how he integrates wildlife with art and conservation with photography
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Sangam of muddy Zanskar and warm green Indus, Ladakh |
"Before you go on a wildlife or natural history shoot, you imagine a certain scenario. But getting those shots is something else. More often than not, on the tenth day, everything falls into place and makes it all worthwhile. We were shooting this very shy birdu00a0-- the Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indica) for a film. It was visible to us as just a speck for a week. And then, on the last day, it came out and displayed itself.
Once we were shooting for a film on the man-animal conflict and heard reports from villagers on how they had spotted a tiger. For 14 days, we didn't even hear a growl. But on the last day of the shoot, early in the morning, this tigress just walked out of the jungle, crossed the road in front of us went into a lake and basked in the sun. It was like a private show for us!
"Wildlife films that come out of India are very few, and those too are funded by large corporates. Permissions to shoot are difficult to come by. It costs Rs 15,000 a day to shoot in a national park. And unless you are supported by National Geographic or BBC, no one is going to give you this kind of money. Especially when there's no guarantee that you will get what you want in a single day. If you say you need 20 days to get a shot of a tiger, no one is going to agree with you!
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