This blog is a result of a comment I posted on Scott’s article, 15 Steps to Take After You Finish Your Script.
People have always discouraged “readings” for investors, and I know why. They are usually boring for a number of reasons. Now I’ll lay out how my producing partners and I successfully raised money for our first film by staging readings.
First, here’s a little backstory on what led us to this idea that everyone tells you not to do. Our journey started in 1998 when my writing partner Ralph Stein and I first wrote the script for When Harry Tries to Marry. It was a passion project we knew we wanted to make ourselves. The script got immediate and positive reaction and scored us meetings around town. It got us hip-pocketed. We won some awards at writing contests. We even got “name” cast interested. I was accepted...
People have always discouraged “readings” for investors, and I know why. They are usually boring for a number of reasons. Now I’ll lay out how my producing partners and I successfully raised money for our first film by staging readings.
First, here’s a little backstory on what led us to this idea that everyone tells you not to do. Our journey started in 1998 when my writing partner Ralph Stein and I first wrote the script for When Harry Tries to Marry. It was a passion project we knew we wanted to make ourselves. The script got immediate and positive reaction and scored us meetings around town. It got us hip-pocketed. We won some awards at writing contests. We even got “name” cast interested. I was accepted...
- 5/31/2012
- by Nayan Padrai
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The cross-cultural comedy When Harry Tries to Marry has arrived on VideoOnDemand and M&C has been given an exclusive clip from the making of the film.s soundtrack! Directed by Nayan Padrai, who co-wrote the film with Ralph Stein and produced it with Sheetal Vyas and Ritu Ahuja, When Harry Tries to Marry stars Rahul Rai, Freishia Bomanbehram, and Stefanie Estes. The film follows a young Indian-born bachelor who lives in New York City. Harry's handsome and charming, but he's cynical about love. He's never really gotten over his parents' divorce -- they were a modern Indian couple who married for love and it didn't last. So to improve his odds of living "happily ever after," Harry decides...
- 8/10/2011
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
Nayan Padrai Filmmaker Nayan Padrai on the set of “When Harry Tries to Marry”
Flashback to 1998. I wrote the story for what has finally become the film “When Harry Tries to Marry” due in theaters today.
The story is about a 22-year-old college student who actually wants to get married right after he graduates through an old-fashioned arranged marriage. His parents had a failed “love” marriage, so Harry decides that he’d rather play it safe and simply follow tradition,...
Flashback to 1998. I wrote the story for what has finally become the film “When Harry Tries to Marry” due in theaters today.
The story is about a 22-year-old college student who actually wants to get married right after he graduates through an old-fashioned arranged marriage. His parents had a failed “love” marriage, so Harry decides that he’d rather play it safe and simply follow tradition,...
- 4/22/2011
- by Nayan Padrai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Check out the trailer and poster for When Harry Tries to Marry, starring Rahul Raj, Freishia Bomanbehram and Stefanie Estes. Nayan Padrai makes his helming debut on the 108 Pics indie comedy which he scripted alongside Ralph Stein, another newcomer. When Harry Tries to Marry opens April 22nd. This actually looks very interesting and comes off as a warm romantic comedy with a difference. I'll check it out. Plot: The film is a cross-cultural romantic comedy about a young Indian-born bachelor who lives in New York City. Harry's handsome and charming, but he's cynical about love. He's never really gotten over his parents' divorce -- they were a modern Indian couple who married for love and it didn't last. So to improve his odds of living "happily ever after," Harry decides to have an arranged marriage, and asks his uncle back home in India to assist him in arranging the introduction to an appropriate Indian woman.
- 3/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the trailer and poster for When Harry Tries to Marry, starring Rahul Raj, Freishia Bomanbehram and Stefanie Estes. Nayan Padrai makes his helming debut on the 108 Pics indie comedy which he scripted alongside Ralph Stein, another newcomer. When Harry Tries to Marry opens April 22nd. This actually looks very interesting and comes off as a warm romantic comedy with a difference. I'll check it out. Plot: The film is a cross-cultural romantic comedy about a young Indian-born bachelor who lives in New York City. Harry's handsome and charming, but he's cynical about love. He's never really gotten over his parents' divorce -- they were a modern Indian couple who married for love and it didn't last. So to improve his odds of living "happily ever after," Harry decides to have an arranged marriage, and asks his uncle back home in India to assist him in arranging the introduction to an appropriate Indian woman.
- 3/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The 12th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival by Mami (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) is scheduled to take place from Oct 21 to Oct 28 in Mumbai. Following is the complete list of all the films that are going to be premiered for the first time ever at the festival: 1. The Way Home - Biju Kumar World Premiere Synopsis - The plot revolves around a doctor with a haunting past. Now working at a Prison Hospital, the Doctor is assigned the case of a woman a surviving member from a notorious terrorist group. .Before dying she entrusts him to find her five-year-old son and unite him with his father who is the head of terrorist group. Finding the boy from a village the Doctor and child set out on a journey to find his father. The journey is happening through the contemporary and mysterious path of the terrorist network in the vast country with many incidents.
- 10/15/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The 12th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival by Mami (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) is scheduled to take place from Oct 21 to Oct 28 in Mumbai. Following is the complete list of all the films that are going to be premiered for the first time ever at the festival: 1. The Way Home - Biju Kumar World Premiere Synopsis - The plot revolves around a doctor with a haunting past. Now working at a Prison Hospital, the Doctor is assigned the case of a woman a surviving member from a notorious terrorist group. .Before dying she entrusts him to find her five-year-old son and unite him with his father who is the head of terrorist group. Finding the boy from a village the Doctor and child set out on a journey to find his father. The journey is happening through the contemporary and mysterious path of the terrorist network in the vast country with many incidents.
- 10/15/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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