Bangalore boy gets a pat from Spielberg

Bangalore boy gets a pat from Spielberg

Sruthy Susan Ullas TNN

Bangalore: Krishna Bala Shenoi, a 19-year-old student of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, was checking his email on Wednesday morning when he saw this from Samantha Becker:

Dear Krishna,

Steven saw your animated tribute and letter that Roger posted in the blog for the Chicago Sun Times(shortened link: http://bit.ly/ZeKA8J). He has written youa note and I have attached it to this email. Please let us know where we can send you a hard copy and we will FE-DEX that to you as well.

Best Wishes



Krishna was stunned. For, the letter was from none less than Steven Spielberg himself. His assistant Samantha had attached a scanned image of the handwritten letter, which congratulated him on his documentary. Spielberg said he was “impressed, to say the least” by the documentary. “I’ll be looking out at the horizon to see where else you will emerge… and impress,” the letter ended.
    Krishna’s 70-second documentary is a tribute to his childhood hero and splices together iconic images Spielberg created over the years. “Steven Spielberg has been my favourite filmmaker for the past decade. He’s had such an illustrious career with a variety of movies. I’ve tried to write about my appreciation before, but somehow that wasn’t enough. I think this tribute conveys my admiration perhaps better than any words,” says Krishna.
    Krishna took four months to produce the documentary, working on it whenever he was free from college work.“I sent this to renowned film critic Roger Ebert, who posted it on his blog with my note, and then on Twitter and Facebook. It finally reached Lois Burwell, a make-up artist who worked with Spielberg on films like ‘Lincoln’, and ‘Saving Private Ryan’, who then passed it on to Spielberg,” Krishna explains.

TRIBUTE TO THE ICON: A grab from Krishna Bala Shenoi’s (inset) documentary on Steven Spielberg