Here are some Pictures from a Recent event. I was Invited to give a lecture to some Business Management students at Acharya B school. It was definitely a fun activity and enriching experience to actually visit a college and interact with the students. Myself being practically uneducated this was definitely something unusual. We spoke about [...]

Below is an online version of the same for easier reading purposes. Publication: The Times Of India Date: May 30 2010 Section: Bangalore ‘Change is inevitable’ And that, says film-maker Swaroop Kanchi, is what his next film, Bengaloored, is all about VIVEK KURUVILLA THOMAS There is a thin line dividing separation and isolation, and very [...]

Waiting for the sun. The last few months have been a long tedious exercise in patience. Loving & hating a lot of the experiences..but mostly choiceless I’m choosing to be silent.

Swaroop kanchi is a writer/Director based out of Bangalore and now ready with his latest Independent Indian English film project BENGALOORED which is now in the theatres & has opened to critical acclaim, great reviews & running successfully in India. Lost and seeking. This is the crux of the story of Bengaloored. Writer Babruvahana feels [...]

Swaroop Kanchi is a Bangalore based International Independent Film Maker who makes films for a world market. A student of Design and advertising, he taught himself to make films, starting at the age of 16, with a few small low budget films called “The End” and “Deja vu”, which were highly appreciated and got him [...]

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The TV9 Interview of Swaroop Kanchi at the Special preview of Hong Kong Dreaming in Bangalore on may31st 2008.

This is small Experimental Dance Project we made in mid march 2009. The Dance form is contemporary mixed with traditional art form. Performed by Veena Basavarajaih and Directed and conceptualized by Swaroop Kanchi. The version up is still a sort of a demo version with unfinished & demo sound. Synopsis: Kalpa in sanskrit is one aeon. Several [...]

Some pictures from my film “Acid”, a few shots in our production office in LA with Producer Alex Kazan, our actors Sabrina Bolin & chris Cunningham.

Supramanya (Supraman) is a young Indian boy living in rural India with his blind mother. By turns fascinated and intimidated by the adults in his village – who are a mixture of the hard-working, con-men and layabouts, his life is restricted by the fact that he must support his mother in her work, rather than [...]

Some of my photography. Lots more to come, but enjoy these for now. Recently I shot some pictures for a friend who was interested in getting into modeling. She wanted me to shoot it, I thought this was a good break from my writing, so took it up, all I was going to lose is [...]

Requiem is a story about a father who has lost in daughter. still re-living memories of her, he wanders looking for solace. This is the first video I shot with my brand new DVX 100, it was more like a test video I shot while on a trip to a small town In south India. [...]

Kanchi’s note: This is a Video I directed for a Documentary film about the Indian Film Industry made my Christian Frost an American Film Maker and Dreamworks/Paramount Employee, the Docu ends with christian himself a part of a Bollywood number. It’s a spoof of a very popular Bolly song actually & We shot it in [...]

This was my first feature film, I was 16 when I started to work on this film and I was 18, very angry, wrinkled and aged and very enlightened by the time this was done. 3 Big producers came & went, more than 800 actors auditioned, I got broke, cornered and ridiculed. But the film [...]

Acid is a film about two lovers who cant seem to find a way out of their drug addiction. They have the right intent & dreams and a desire to lead a normal life. But somehow stuck in a weave of bad karma doesnt help. We shot this film in LA. The film stars Chris [...]

Hong Kong Dreaming is an English Feature film Directed & produced by Swaroop Kanchi. Co-produced by Sandhya Madhu Rao & S.K.Raghupathy. It was shot in 2007 and completed in 2008. The film stars Fiona Man & Kai C wong. Fiona Man is a London born actress & an accomplished model of chinese origin. Kai C Wong is [...]

 This is a comic Book series I wrote…just to experiment and have fun with..no offense intended to any one, and click on the pictures for a bigger image, and dont forget to tell me what you think and also leave some comments on how I can possibly make this better in the next issue.. ENJOY!!!! [...]

I had a conversation with a friend. It didnt make any sense. She said something like she wants Love. I said somthing like just do your bit of living. she said she is an idealist. I said you might be an idiot. She said. I said. We are on the same boat. But the boat [...]

How to express this pain of stupidity. You think you are something but you arent. You think there is something, but there isnt. How to describe this numbness, this dumbness. you’re excited, in glee, happy from head to toe, all for nothing. It’s a mistake, lost in translation, lost in words, and in time. You [...]

This year on my blog I think Im opening up a bit too much. So far Ive been writing and keeping a lot of my personal life, well personal. Now I dont really think that I have a personal life anymore. wtf. So I know it’s going to be weird writing everything on this blog. [...]

As the year has almost ended, im thinking yet again, just like all the other years, how fast this one has gone by. So much has happened, yet so little. so much could happen and so much did happen. So i thought Id make a list of all the highs and lows of 2008. just [...]

It’s one of those days…when things are just about okay, but nothing seems to fit quiet right. There’s nothing to celebrate and nothing to mourn. It’s a sad happy feeling, everything is okay, but does not seem to matter, something is missing today. There’s no paradigm shift. Life is just what it is, what it’s [...]

Ive been like the rest of India watching Terror on Tv for the past few days, the line between fact & fiction, fear and anger has blurred. I see a lot of anger in myself and a lot of anger being thrown around. there is immense tension and great loss of life. Firstly my heart [...]

O BA MA! what can you say about Obama. Everyone is talking about Obama, is listening to Obama, praying for Obama, watching Obama and most importantly voting for Obama. He’s the Biggest thing ever. He’s like the next Michael jackson, He’s black-not quite, he’s white not quite, But He’s the biggest celebrity in the world, [...]

My article from the Hindu-Metro plus-dated 22 october 2008

The Simplest thing in the world. there is no need for any movement in any direction, any seeking into anything, right here, right now. as it is. IT IS. ever present yet ever absent, present in absence and absent in that which is presides, without which nothing is, still nothing is. ever full, the beyond, [...]

I was definitely moved to write a review for this movie. This is probably the first time im writing one…atleast on this blog. ive taken apart several films in my lifetime, massacred a few for sure. I would definitely like to go for kill on this one. kill the director I mean. coz if guys [...]

What is needed is a passion to create, to do something, to create something. Ive been in bangalore for the last god knows how long..busting my nuts trying to find talent, and all i find is..wannabe actors whoring around with no idea what it takes to be an actor, what is needed of them, sending [...]

kanchi99, originally uploaded by tapas_v. This is an Old picture of me…tht i Got my hands..dnno wht Im soo pissed off wd…

The shadows of bamboo leaves move not an inch Although they sweep the ground The reflection of the moon leaves no scars on the water Although it drills to the bottom. -Rozan EKo

to me, this is all there is, to life, to existence.There might be more, there might be less, but for now, this will do. right now, what is right here is all that there is, what might be else where, or another time is of no consequence. Right here, right now is what I am [...]

broken smile not because ive been pained broken smile not because ive been broken hearted broken smile not because my dreams are shattered broken smile all because of a chipped tooth…

tHE SKY CLOTHES MY NAKEDNESS THE CLOUDs ORNAMENT MY FREEDOM THE SUN SHINES FORTH BUT A GLIMPSE OF THE SPLENDOR THAT I AM FORMLESS YET I AM NAMELESS YET I AM I AM NOT YET I AM

Pages of my life reveals itself like the undercurrent of my river that I so adored. Alone, in the nakedness of my innocence. I sat on her banks. I called her my mother. She was the only mother I ever knew, my only companion, my only friend. Even before I could utter words I Sat [...]

How many masks to hide behind.Cold & isolated. Just look once. What are you hiding from.What are you fighting for.The Demons cannot haunt you.Then why the shields do you carry.Why the walls you build.Why create the very darkness you fearWhy the masks thenThe faceless oneDrop them allAnd find the one.

This time in my life is such a paradox. Im living out my life to the fullest, yet Im doing nothing at all, I am relatively at peace with myself, inspite of all the daily battles I wage. I am surrounded by people I love, yet none I can call my own, everything I need [...]

why this question?why this need to question?why this need to write about the need to question?

How much contemplating can a man do? how greedy can a man really get? nothing much to say about today. went out walking, ate in KFC, drank some coffee in Starbucks, sat around, alone, looking out of the window overlooking the bus stop. realise people all over the world board busses. thoughts of my mumbai [...]

The best moments in your life are disguised as the worst moments of your life. But they’re also always the most intense moments of your life. within these moments do you really live and learn to live. These are the moments that change your life and on your deathbed these are the moments that you [...]

The only feeling I can think of these days is gratitude. More than just a feeling it’s become a way of living for me. Im not even sure if its a feeling but Im sure whatever Im going through us not my doing. so I have absolutely no power or control over it & Im [...]

why this question?why this need to question?why this need to write about the need to question?

Note to self- Live. Continue living as if I’m alive. Right now there is no way for me to know whether I’m alive or to what extent I’m alive. I’m breathing all right. I can walk, I talk. I look at myself in the mirror. Is this proof enough of my being alive. I slept, [...]

I was Shive. Seated in Lotus position. My arms resting on my knees, my spine aligned straight. sitting, just sitting, watching the energy rise in my body & slowly I was shiva, matted locks on my head, I attained the body consciousness of shiva. Silent & resilient in my consciousnesss I was shiva-in physicality & [...]

I havent done anything that I regret. The whole experience is being experienced. love & cherish. I met her whose very being brings morning into my nights. intoxicating, delicate, a whiff of wind can whither away her presence. light, soft. I’ve gone through so many ups & downs the last few days. Ive hated & [...]

I dwell ever in AsceticismHow is it then that I am enchantedby Parvathi?

this world has so many people.

hey dude,so where r u at the moment? and when r u plannin to go to chin?the history ques is if u were a saint in the present day wat would ur teaching be?plz give me a good ans so that the teacher gets impressed and gives me extra marks… plz dude i need the [...]

Oh lord of the dead may you watch over those who lie beneath may your wings help them fly and may their sins be washed away may they learn to love again and live in your eternal sea now and forever amen.

  Hail thy teeth that showeth thoust laughter!! Hail thy spirit that hideth not the cavity!!

BHAVATHU SABBA MANGALAM!!!! IS DIWALI KI AUSA PAR SAB KA MANGAL HO!!

I was 17, as part of the college curriculum we were assigned to do a photo shoot in nrityagram, a traditional dance academy on the outskirts of Bangalore. Me along with some 20 others made the trip. A recluse, aloof, a perfect example of a rebel Without a cause and without any direction whatsoever, I [...]

Love is Destruction. you can never build in love. You can never create anything new, its the total acceptance of death. Creation is disdain, by its very nature, a will to create is the manifestation of disdain for that which already exists,a conflict with the esistence as it is. Only an incomplete being can create. [...]

1. Dined with Amir khan, his wife & Kunal kapoor at amir’s place. ( was excited but nobody seemed to care..so maybe its not sucha big deal)2. within less than a week hung out with jackie shroff, Anil kapoor, jugal hansraj, met up with Anupam kher, Ashutosh gowariker, Meghna Ghai (subhash Ghais daughter) and many [...]

He plunges himself into the pyre of an ever ending conflict, to vanquish. A Lone soldier Befriends strife, makes his peace with the bereaved. In pursuit of the conquest of evil. A battle he pledges to wage till his last breath, a conflict committed to eternity. The plight of the victims, the tears of repentance, [...]

Crouching like a dog, at my feet he wept, begged for forgiveness that i granted not, pleaded for mercy, that i heard not. For i knew far greater than the fear of death in his eyes was the fury of vengeance in my heart. I pulled the trigger and in the moments that followed I [...]

1. looking fr a 1bhk. gota beach view place..12 grand rent..tried to nego fr 11 grand…brokers were fuckin arnd..i askd them to take a hike. 2. workin on a short film calld “jehad” gota guy ready to put in sum money n act as the lead. he gave me shit as hes a christian and [...]

So I bought myself a nice video camera. just one of those handy cameras…nothing fancy…n setout to capture mumbai…on a cycle…nahinn…ths ws jus fr style maroing…cool cycle…my roomies’ frnd bought it…1500…gd naaa So finally after all the style maroing I set out on one of mumbai’s more favoured transports…BUS>>>>>>> so like the buddhaa..i set out…into [...]

We all have only one story to tell. The story of ignorance. at home. In the US..in the Middle east..in the schools, in the board rooms..in the temples…in the mosques….in the churches…everywhere…you look…and you find just one story…the story of ignorance…born out of ignorance..told out of ignorace and understood with ignorance…

You are walking in a forest with 5 peopleyour mother, somebody you love very much, maybe boyfriend/girlfriend or a best friend, an aqauintance, somebody you hate a lot and a stranger. Suddenly a bandit comes your way and points a gun at you and tells you that he’s going to kill one person but asks [...]

As you read this, you are slowly getting older, your body metabolism is getting slower. the skin is slowly beginning to wither, your heart is losing it’s strength, very slowly, but it’s the truth, very slowly you are dying, moment by moment, moment by moment, the monitor your are looking through wont exist one day, [...]

This thought arose multiplied into a bed of seeds giving birth to a universe of thoughts and each one of them multiplying into millions more A universe of universes out of this one thought and yet this was just one moment. A collosal testimony of the acts of suicide we commit every single moment drowning [...]

The ocean beholds her Magnificence for me, with her multi-lingual dialect she speaks to every rock she embraces the horizon and her waves calm every rage In her ever changing moments she manifests herself from a damsel to an angel, from a friend to a lover, from a stranger to a mother. every moment she [...]

Lonely under a million starsfriends with sanitya black heart crouching withincrucifying the momentto a cross of infinite painlife ceases from beingeyes cease from seeing Running in a wilderness of insanitysearching for the child of joyscreaming within, crying to the skiesThe gods of my ancestors have seen not,the devils born out of my daughters have felt [...]

Funny isn’t it Today i will be dead sitting in a dark room too scared to go out too anxious to stay in strangely even the lizard looks beautiful Memories pass by Some good, some bad Some beautiful, some ugly some make me cry, some make me laugh But it just doesn’t make sense tears [...]

state of emergency how beautiful to be state of emergency is where i want to be

Laughing at myself i stoodin front of a wall that was too highthe dream i had built uponlived no more than the goodness in my soul.

The great sun lay beside me In the heat of the moment i said ‘I loved her’ she knew not what to say never did I see her againlike I did that day.

Everybody looking at me as i walked down the street of no lamps I fell to the ground, hurting myself None cared to help, I lay there under the sky of no stars, I lay there on the street, just waiting for the pain to disappear I just lay there waiting for someone to help [...]

“Sitting on a chair just sitting on a chair the Sun rose towards me sitting on a chair Just sitting on a chair I saw it allSitiing on a chair Just sitting idle I was halfway between love & hate Hafway between Life & death halfway between the stars & me Sitting on a chair [...]

what are dreams oftheyre but bubbles in the consciousnesswaging a silent war to be realisedA smoke in the passing windchanging every moment taking new forms & shapesmerging into realityA diluted image of the grandeur & beauty.

I don’t want to win, I don’t want to losejust want to give birth to a feelingugly or beautiful, it’s whatver your eyes will see, joy without words,music without soundwarmth without gratificationlove with no boundaries Like it or dislike, sense or nonsense, what it is, it is, ears to my melody it will be, rebirth [...]

Born in a cruel worldthought life was a dream come trueif only she knew, child of an unknown father & an orphaned mothera mother who was fed to satisfy man’s needs,had to friend to call her own, had no family,knew no freedom or the beauty of a raindroplived away day after day, watching one by [...]

…and the soul asks for eyes filled with tears a heart filled with scars every step a little more painful every dream a nightmare what use of happiness that has seen not suffering? a light without feeling as a light without reflection O’ master of this soulchild rinse me in love tie me to freedom [...]

I was not born I don’t remember being born I was told that i was born I will not die I don’t remember being dead I was told that i will be dead I was not born I will not die I live I am living I wasnt told im living But i live I [...]

Yeah!! Ive been reading a lot of blogs of late, of people I dont know and tht of people I thought I knew, ordinary people with extraordinary thoughts aboutt everything, great skills as writers, where have these people been hiding for so long, Ive been writing for loong loong time and won writing contests etc [...]

I walk the streetssilent at nightpain lights up the dark alleysi pass through every dreamyou sleep throughi confront every ghostthat haunts you

the human animal invents value mattrices with which to survive within, and perhaps to dominate, his physical and psychological environments. Nihilism is the result of a faulty value-system turning back on itself and its human creators, ultimately devaluing itself and causing the experience of nothingness on the many levels of human consciousness. Plato’s Ideas and [...]

with the disappearance of god, we at the helm of a new millenium of madness, stand alone, all by ourselves,talking amonst us speeches filled with hatred and agony, diseases spread like wild fire, insanity a state of mind for the civilization, blood sport, masochist metamorphosise the world as we know it, trees turn into furniture, [...]

why money? why power? for what joy? ever stopped to thnk what next? im the richest guy in the world, i am the most powerful person, okay, great, what next? what follows? happiness? i think not, satisfaction, maybe, maybe not, content? never, so why? what drives me? impatience, frustration, fear, desire, pre-emptive destiny?? foolishness, greed, [...]

When I woke up that morning, I knew it, I knew I screwed up. Everything was going to be different. My life, my family, my Art, my career, everything was about to change. All my life I was doing okay, but now suddenly when the sun rose, it was all gone, like a dream, it [...]

Born July 6th 1925, Dead December 19th 2003. This is when my story begins. The story of a Daughter, standing in front of my father’s cold body. Breathless and lifeless. The story of a 40 year old mother, the story of an Indian Middle Class Housewife. My mother sits there weeping. Uncontrollably sobbing. Breaking the [...]

Alas what has come by the present, a shade none too close of the dreams of the past mediocrity seconds living away the breath so wasted, chewing into the mortality of this slave this slave of boredom & loneliness this slave of anger & bitterness in search of a friend, to undo the betrayals of [...]

it’s unnerving to write…about myself..somethng ppl can read…anyone on the net..ppl i knw..i dnt knww….Hw much cn i reveal?bout myself…hw much cn i hide…my secrets…i dunno…ths is my first blog…so here goes 3:46 november 27th afternoon 2005. its been a boring day like everyother for the past couple yrs of my life…the passion with which [...]