‘He and She’ movie – life Beyond the Scene
Romantic comedy “He and She” has been gathering full movie centers of fans of the movie throughout Kazakhstan. The budget of the movie is $300,000, but by the first weekend the movie has already got a payoff of $250,000. The movie makers and KazSocial edition will tell what is left beyond the scene.
The movie founder, Saken Zholdas is 27 years old. He won a Bolashak scholarship and then studied in Texas. When he was a third-year student, the representatives of Microsoft came to Texas to find new talented students. Saken was invited to visit Seattle for 2 days. During the visit he was interweaved by Microsoft’s vice – president and luckily he passed this interview and got a job at Silicon Valley. He was working on Windows 7 and 8 at Microsoft Company.
The movie itself had a very rough start and there was a point at which the movie had no future: the producer had neither no money nor an investor to sponsor this project. Nonetheless, Saken Zholdas applied all the efforts and created a project presentation, then sent it to all his friends and asked them to broadcast it.
Unexpectedly, a few months later, his friend called him in the night and said that there is someone who is interested in your project. Saken was very excited and at the same time nervous, he wasn’t sure that you will be able to get financing for the movie. Despite all the worries, he decided to go to Astana to talk to the investor. The investor had only a few minutes to listen to the producer-beginner. Saken remembers when the investor asked him whether he believes in this project or not, he waged and said: “I do.” The investor then decided to go for this project.
After the movie was financed, the producer and writer started to look for the actors. They didn’t want to use famous actors; instead they went for young and unknown actors and therefore were looking for new people. As it turned out later, after the release of the movie, this risk was paid off. As long as they started, they broadcasted the casting on the internet. They received about 6 000 applications, every day the team was considering 30-40 people. They were surprised that out of these 6000 applications, around a half of the applications were received from the males.
After a few months, the movie personnel started to worry and weren’t sure whether they will be able to find appropriate actors that would fit their criteria. Saken has been passing on his business cards to all his friends to widen the search range. One day, during the event at the Japanese Center, the friend of Saken gave a business card to a lady, as it turned out later, it was Dinara Baktybaeva. When she came to casting, it was obvious that she is the right person. She had all the qualities that we were looking for.
Dinara was born in Zhanaozena, she is now studying at the Almaty University of Energy and Communications at the Department of Radio Engineering, Electronic and Communications. By the way, she has a full tuition waiver. This lady has never been dreaming about an actress’ carrier and still not sure whether she should take a chance.
The main actor of the ‘He and She’ movie is Zhandos Aybasov. When he came to casting, he had a long beard. This is a fact that has been bothering the producer, and therefore couldn’t imagine him in the role of the student. He was asked to shave it off and then next day when he showed up at casting – it was a completely different person.
Zhandos is 24 years old, he is a jewelry master, according to the degree. He sometimes still creates some jewelry. But it’s only his hobby at this point. Aybasov dreams to become a producer, he had graduated from the Kazakh National Art Academy named after Zhurgenov. But at this point this interesting guy is called in for movies. A new movie by Ermek Tursunov will be released soon, where Aybasov had a main role. Other than this, he is playing in the movie called “Kazakh Style Robbery”.
