Popular for his horror flicks and suspense thrillers, actor cum director Ravi Babu is on the verge of completing his next script. While Ravi Babu has not revealed anything about his script, all that he talked about his ‘green initiative’ in filmmaking in a recent interview to a popular film journalist is an Eye-opener for filmmakers of low and even high budget films.
With the shooting of his next film, Ravi Babu plans to shun the total usage of paper on and off the sets to save the trees and even money. The entire script will be saved and edited on an iPad. Not stopping here, Ravi Babu also decided not to use generators for power supply. Instead, he will use the domestic LED bulbs, which emit bright light without even using diesel generators.
There’s more. Ravi Babu also shunned regular cast and crew meetings, which involve everyone travelling in cars from several places on the city, thereby consuming a lot of petrol. Now, all of Ravi Babu’s meetings happen on mobile phones, saving huge chunks of time and money.
The meticulous maker then gets down to numbers as he says hundreds of paper bundles and 100 litres of fuel can be saved each day with this ‘green initiative’, and this can save a lot of money for small and even high budget producers. Well, he surely has a point. If only our producers implemented this amazing initiative successfully.