Five by Four

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 Divyadarshini and popular Kannada model Hardeep Minhas. The music was by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by Ravi Varman. The film in English was produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It did not get a theatrical release, but was screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Writers market at Santa Monica, and other venues.

Cast

Cary Edwards as Nayan
Eashwar Rao as Ajay
Venkat as the stranger
Divyadarshini as Namitha
Hardeep Minhas as Aishwarya
Preetha 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 National Film Development Corporation of India. 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 Tamil Nadu. 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 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema.