CLAT ADS SERIES 2

more in this series coming soon. 

CLAT ADS SERIES 1

Series of ads for CLAT Possible, a law entrance preparation program for students. This series was based on the results of 2012. 

SESAME STREET

I worked as a scriptwriter for Sesame Street's Indian co-production- Galli Galli Sim Sim.

Here's a showreel.

Galli Galli Sim Sim from shagun rastogi on Vimeo.

Before becoming a scriptwriter, I first joined them as a Live Action Director and the following pilot is from that time:

Many months. Countless briefs. The 'final' draft that would always end up as 'pre-final' before too long. Grover and Toto. No No. Toto and Grover. What are you saying, people? Grover and Toto. After multiple shifts in personality, histories ( of the muppets) and gender ( of the muppeteers) I am told that Grover and Toto came out with flying colours and no psychosomatic disorders. Which only goes to show that i need to develop a thicker skin since I couldn't have said the same about myself. So here's the pilot episode on Grover and Toto's visit to the bookstore, as part of the longer episode with one continuous story-line.

Role: Conceptualizer, Director.

THE LAW OF LOVE

A film about a peace initiative between India and Pakistan.The project involves the children of India and Pakistan in writing letters to each other, so that feelings of hostility are replaced by those of friendship when this generation grows up
Role: Editor

RECOGNITION: Best in Fest, My Hero Film Festival, USA

GE HEALTHCARE- REIMAGINE

India is a nation experiencing growth at unprecedented rates. It is a country at the frontiers of the IT revolution, with dynamic urban centers where no dream is impossible.

India is also a nation of 638,000 villages with 700 million people. And while urban India has access to world class healthcare and medical facilities, it is in semi urban and ruralIndia that both need and opportunity lies.

Wipro GE in India is providing healthcare solutions to more people at lower costs. 

Producer: QED Communications

GE- Reimagine from shagun rastogi on Vimeo.

DELHI MUMBAI INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR

A film made for the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, 

a mega infra-structure project of USD 90 billion with the financial & technical aids from Japan, covering an overall length of 1483 KMs between the political capital and the business capital of India, i.e. Delhi and Mumbai.

OBJECTIVE:  Attract investment in the project Producer: QED Communications Citizen of the Future from shagun rastogi on Vimeo.

GULABI GULABI

SHORT FILM CORNER, CANNES 2009 'The Gulabi Gang' is a documentary on a social movement in the villages of Bundelkhand- a group of women committed to protecting themselves and other women against social malpractice, abusive husbands and corrupt administrators. So called because of the bright pink saris they wear, the movement is led by Sampat Pal, a forty five year old semi literate village woman who was married at twelve and became a mother at fifteen. Since 2006, when the Gulabi gang gave themselves a name and an attire, they have intervened in several cases of domestic abuse,prevented child marriages and exposed governemnt scams. As a young woman having grown up in urban India, I am keenly aware of the privileges that have been mine by virtue of birth. However, I also question the freedom that is apparently mine, wondering if a scratch in the surface of my thoughts and relationships will reveal old beliefs that I and other people around me have applied coats of unconscious polish to. To travel then, from the urban landscape to the rural, in the face of the ever growing urban rural divide, is to travel, in a way, from the present to the past, to wonder what the future holds. To travel is to negotiate the space that stretches between 'us' and 'them' in order to know if we really are different, irrespective of the glaringly obvious gaps in terms of the externalities. For me, this film is an act of love. Love for women who are fighting against the odds in circumstances I can barely even begin to imagine. Therefore, it is also important that this film be, not just a work of art for my own self, but a film that communicates clearly who these women are and what they are fighting for, in order for it to be a useful tool.

Role: Producer, director, editor.  on CURRENT TV : MORE: I am now working on a follow up documentary on the Gulabi Gang. Visit: www.thegulabigang.blogspot.com ( in progress )