Rearview: My Roadies Journey by Raghu Ram

Author:Raghu Ram [Ram, Raghu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Published: 2013-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

No, yes, vows and the Kerala connection

Kuhu would have never married me if not for that Diwali holiday after Season 3 which I was told to take because she complained I didn’t spend enough time with her…and which I didn’t because I spent day and night holed up with the edits of Season 3. Basically, Kuhu would have never married me if not for the long, impossibly gruelling hours of the Season 3 edit.

A word about edits. Several people believe (rather foolishly) that a show like Roadies gets aired as it is being shot. Ridiculous, because think about it: if that were the case, how would we show you a preview of an episode for the coming week?! What you watch on your TV screens isn’t what is shot, it is the edit. Let me explain. The journey episodes on Roadies are ideally shot on seven to eight cameras. Each of these cameras records nearly eighteen hours of footage every single day of the shoot. We shoot every episode over three days, so every episode has a raw footage of approximately five hundred hours. This footage has to be digitized before it is edited, which means you have to take the camera tape and record it in the computer hard drive. Which takes you around five hundred hours as well. Then you have to pick the angles of the footage you want, put them all together, and finally an episode is made. Every step of it is time consuming as it is, and during Season 3, soon after the journey, the rains happened, delaying us further.

So we shook things up a bit. Janet decided that since we had four producers, Bumpy, Chhotu, Zulfiya and Debbie each would take care of one episode. If Rannvijay followed my brief completely and did exactly as was expected of him while anchoring, my producers did just that with the editing. They fully justified Rajiv’s faith in them; after all, he had recommended them. The quality of the edit, the way they went about it, could only be compared to the Season 1 edit which, as you may well remember, dear reader, was done by yours truly. And which I am extremely proud of. Just as I am proud of Season 3’s edit.

We had four edit rooms, four producers, and audition and journey episodes. Each audition episode took two and a half weeks to edit, each journey episode took four. My producers lived in the edit rooms for those months. And while each of them handled one episode over four weeks, I had one edit room to myself. Every time an episode was ready, I would access it in my edit room, fine-tune it, make it my own so that the overall look, feel and tempo of the series would be cohesive, consistent. I was the final check for each episode before it was sent over for telecast. Each producer had one dispatch a month but because I was the commandeering force, I was responsible for every weekly despatch.

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