Films drive by passion

Amogh Shambu always nurtured a dream of making films. To reach his goal, Amogh recalls, he would bunk classes and end up on film sets, meeting actors and directors, begging them to teach him the craft of filmmaking.

During his free time, instead of completing his homework, he would “be busy writing stories and scripts. The one film I was inspired by was Apthamithra. After watching it, I rewrote the entire story with dialogues in English as a child,” claims Amogh, who also nurtures a dream of becoming an actor and a singer, besides a director.

His dream finally came true, when the youngster directed his very first short film Campus Love Story, which was released on YouTube in 2016. The film, a love story, takes on a crime angle when the boy is killed by his rival and classmate. The film is written and directed by Amogh.

His second film, Snehada Jeevigalu, is all about friendship, he says. The film was first screened at Ramoji film city is yet to be released on YouTube. “I plan to do that on May 31, on my father’s birthday,” says Amogh, who is now gearing up to make his first feature film.

He says he has 40 to 45 scripts ready, all of them written by him “in varied genres. I have written stories in the genres of romance, horror and defence.” That’s not all, Amogh also has a passion to touch lives. He has created an FB page called ‘I support Indian farmers’. The page talks about a farmer’s life across the globe, the technology they use and so on. “These are uploaded on the FB page and tells our farmers how some of those methods can be incorporated in India too.”

How can he be sure that an Indian farmer will be on to FB and Amogh replies, “I hope someone in his family, his children or relatives will see the page and tell him about it.”