Those Were the Days

'Those Were the Days', a (5min) short film featuring The Twilight Players was made by myself last year. The idea came about from a dance for screen film festival, but the performers I had in mind were beyond being dancing monkeys, they were true characters. I wrote a script extrapolating how the three brothers would interact, I knew them as 'them' not as figments of my imagination from which I could construct fiction. Sinbad's sarcasm of an older sibling, Ammo's inquisitiveness and Jimi's refusal to accept anything less.

A polite request to Sinbad paaji (he's like an older brother to me) of the Twilights asking him if he would be in a short film. His response "If Jim and Ammo like the script and music, we'll do it", I sent the script and played the music, the brothers approved and we were shooting a couple of weeks later.



THOSE WERE THE DAYS, a SHORT FILM from MANDEEP SINGH JUTLA, feraturing THE TWILIGHT PLAYERS... A swift tale of three guys reminiscing on what was or that which might have been, did it happen or was it just their dream...

Screening at the ICA on 20th March / 8:45pm
INSTITUTE of CONTEMPORARY ARTS