One memorable experience was while shooting Shahid Kapur's picture. The picture was supposed to have a dark ally in the background with a pipe burst in the ally and there is water flowing in foreground. For this picture, Shahid was clicked in the studio and the image was superimposed on the ally in the background during post production.
In the studio we made him stand in a big tray of water and asked him to jump in the tray so that the water kept splashing and we could get the wet effect on his clothes and shoes which is very difficult to create artificially using photoshop. Hence, we had to do it in real. At the end of that shoot my whole studio was flooded with water and Shahid kept saying that I'll have to pay for his shoes that got ruined. So that was fun.
Usually every shoot is interesting, like there was one with Hrithik Roshan. Besides it is amazing to see the kind of effort the stars put in for just one picture, I am very grateful to them. It feels that the relationship, the goodwill that I have created with them over the years has paid off.
Read More">A picture speaks a thousand words. And seeing a Dabboo Ratnani shot image will confirm this maxim. He’s definitely doing something right. Or else why would our top notch stars come together year after year for his annual calendar. There is always a buzz where his calendar is concerned. And what is commendable is thatRead More
A picture speaks a thousand words. And seeing a Dabboo Ratnani shot image will confirm this maxim. He's definitely doing something right. Or else why would our top notch stars come together year after year for his annual calendar.
There is always a buzz where his calendar is concerned. And what is commendable is that the whole purpose of the calendar is to showcase his work and talent. A product is not the underlying message. While everybody is trying to get a sneak peek into the calendar, we at IndiaFM did manage a dekko and must say that the images completely blew our mind! So here we exclusively present to you some stunning images from Dabboo's collection and what the creative genius has to say about them.
Spectacular would not even begin to describe these works of art. Different is Dabboo Ratnani. Let the pictures speak for themselves'
The calendar consists of 24 pictures of 12 male and 12 female stars. Since, it's a desk calendar; each month appears on both the sides of a page, with the picture of one male and one female star on the either side. Generally, men prefer to have female actresses on their desk calendar and females like vice versa. So, it is up to the users to select which one they want.
The calendar doesn't really have a theme per se, but then the pictures are typical Daboo Ratnani style. For this year's calendar though we have experimented a lot with lighting and also the concept of the pictures shot, as opposed to just glamour shots taken for a calendar. The male actors have been put in to different characters like Aamir Khan is given a Robinhood kind of a look, Abhishek Bachchan is in a wolf-keeper kind of a look.
As for females, they are definitely given a glamorous look but there is a lot of experimentation done with the costumes this time. Esha Deol is dressed up like a Gypsy Queen. Also, we have tried to capture different kind of moods for example; Celina Jaitley is being shot sitting in a closed Jazz bar creating the after hours ambience.
We have tried to create interesting ambience for the pictures so that there won't be any requirement to add any effects to them in the post production stage.
However, we do have some straight headshots which are basically very simple pictures on which we played a lot digitally in the post-production stage by adding a lot of funky backgrounds.
Any stars to feature for the first time in your calendar this year?
We have got many stars who will appear for the first time on the calendar this year. We have stars like Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Rani Mukherji for the first time.