''Five by Four'' is a 2003 Indian English film written and directed by Roopa Swaninathan. It stars VJs Cary Edwards, Sapna and Usha Seetharam, Eashwar Rao, television artistes Venkat, Preetha Raaghav and

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and popular Kannada model Hardeep Minhas. The music was by

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and cinematography by

Ravi Varman S. Ravi Varman (born 9 May 1972) is an Indian cinematographer, filmmaker, producer and writer. He has predominantly worked in films of Indian languages such as Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi. Known for his realistic and poetic framing sense, Rav ...

. The film in

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was produced by the

National Film Development Corporation of India The National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) based in Mumbai is the central agency established in 1975, to encourage high quality Indian cinema. It functions in areas of film financing, production and distribution and under Ministr ...

(NFDC). It did not get a theatrical release, but was screened at the

Shanghai International Film Festival The Shanghai International Film Festival (, French: ''Festival international du film de Shanghai''), abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia. "China's biggest film festival" according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nex ...

, the Writers market at Santa Monica, and other venues.

Cast

* Cary Edwards as Nayan * Eashwar Rao as Ajay * Venkat as the stranger *

as Namitha * Hardeep Minhas as Aishwarya *

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as Shruti * Sapna as Shikha Iyer * Usha Seetharam as Meera * Sujata Panju as Meenakshi * Biniu Jha as Renu * Prabhu as Martin * Amar as Abhijeet

Production

Roopa Swaminathan signed up with Penguin and was writing short stories for a book. She thought the stories could be made into a feature films and approached the

. The film consists of four stories about a gang of five girls. She first named the film "Five String Quartet". The film was shot entirely in

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. The director planned to shoot the whole film in 25 days, but completed it in 18 days as she had rehearsed with the actors for nearly four months. Swaminathan also wrote about her experience making the film in her book ''Stardust: Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry'', which won the

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References

External links

Five by Four at Cinemas of India
* {{AllRovi movie, 499027, Five by Four 2003 films 2000s English-language films