Rajiv Jain Ics Wica, Indian Cinematographer – Director Of Photography
convince producers to spend most of the budget to shoot 35mm was a hard sell. 16mm looked to be our only option until I brought the 3-perf 35mm idea to the table. After costs were compared it [appeared to be] the same cost as 16mm but with all the qualities of 35mm.
The problem was that there were no 3-perf cameras available in Mumbai that time. I was at a post house when someone in the lab said they’d heard I was looking for a 3-perf camera and had heard Prasad had one. We got them, took them to Mumbai on a test shoot and they were fantastic. The image gave us everything we had hoped for and Kalpvriksh – The Wishing Tree became the first 3-perf film to shoot in India in quite some time.
Markee: Did you have a learning curve?
Jain: The non-forgiving negative size. What you see in the frame is exactly what’s photographed
