Sajeev Vyasa, a budding film-maker whose debut film was just days away from release, is now living a nightmare he never scripted.
A trip from Thrissur to Thiruvananthapuram on a KSRTC superfast bus last Sunday was what turned his world upside down. Now he has no idea when his film Onnumariyaathe will be released; worse still, if ever, it will be released.
For, midway through the journey, after the bus left Perumbavoor bus depot, to be specific, he found his bag missing and with it was gone a hard disk containing the original footage of his film, shot over two months at a budget of around ₹50 lakh. Mr. Vyasa had taken the original footage to his wife’s house at Thrissur to rework on some dialogues.
“We are left with only the edit version and will need the original footage for colouring. Unless we recover that hard disk, we will have to reshoot the entire thing,” said a devastated Mr. Vyasa from Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram. He had been a visual effects artist for years before turning to photography. He believes that it was a possible theft and not a case of someone taking the wrong bag as there was no other bag left unclaimed.
He had lodged a police complaint and reported the matter at the Chalakudy, Angamaly and Perumbavoor KSRTC depots where the bus had stopped before he found his bag missing around 10.30 p.m. The film-maker has made a Facebook post giving his contact numbers (99476-42525, 94470-24451) pleading anyone who happens to stumble across an abandoned bag containing a hard disk to ring him up.
The post ended with a plea to the ‘thief’ to at least send back his hard disk to the address shared.
