By Rumi.. A Confession

Story by- Bhaswan Chatterjee

Age- 24

This lockdown has changed a lot within me. From realising the importance of self worth & self love to releasing my first directorial short film,the past few months had a lot happening. Definitely, it hasn't been an outright positive streak, life is always laden with good as well as bad days. I have had my share of both, more of the bad ones maybe. But let me focus on the brighter side, because there's a lot of negativity around already, isn't it? 

So the best part of this lockdown has been the growth of my YouTube channel "Silver Streaks Production" which is a family of 212 subscribers now and hopefully more in future. Fingers crossed

We recently released our first short film, "By Rumi...A Confession" and the response we got has been overwhelming too! I'm looking forward to create more and also have made our production an open platform so that writers, musicians, actors, storytellers can collaborate anytime. We are just an email or dm away. Links will be provided for people interested, I would be very happy to work with amazing people ♥️. 

‌Also I'm opening a page on instagram soon, probably next week, which will aim to create a community of aspiring storytellers. I will be promoting budding storytellers, by posting their contributions for the page. It's "Tales for you by you".

I had a much bigger plan and was hoping to execute it later in my life while I had the resources. But this lockdown changed a lot of my perspectives. Hence, I thought why not start with small steps? So here I'm, already into it, taking tiny little steps at a time 😊.  I'm excited for the journey ahead and what's in store. I'm really stoked to collaborate and cook up more tales. 

As a creator or storyteller, it hasn't been always easy. There are some days you feel a terrible block in your creative process, some days you feel demoralised and willing to quit. It's never easy and I guess it's okay to not feel okay at times. But then I always remembered why I had started in the first place. That kept me going and hopefully will, in future too. It's frustrating too at times because I can't get to go outdoors and shoot, roam around freely. But then, there's a positive side to everything right? 

Let's embrace life the way it shows up. Let's gather those little doses of positivity and churn out the much needed hope we need to get us through these really uncertain times. Good luck to all. Cheers :-)