bangalore these iitians are so passionate about films that the most exotic job offers have paled before the attraction of the big screen after spending years as batchmates at iitmadras they have chosen the path less travelled filmmaking they have made the first movie on the lives of bangalores techies rabi kisku and siddarth nuni have come up with a feature film software hardware kya yaaron shky shot on a shoestring budget it has a happy lingual mix the dialogues are primarily in english and hindi with a bit of tamil telugu urdu kannada marathi and malayalam thrown in shot at 18 locations in bangalore shky reflects the bangalores it culture and social diversity rabi the director and siddarth the cinematographer made the film with just rs 20 lakh and 16 artistes having a theatre background the script is coauthored by abr narasimha a techie with a software company shky is set for release next week the plot has nine techies consigned to the bench they are hit by recession which not only infuses a sense of job insecurity but also chips away at their friendships two japanese trainers start monitoring and training the techies of the nine only four are escalated this leads to unhealthy competition among the friends rabi says the advent of the it industry has transformed the lives of many techies who come to bangalore for jobs they tend to home in on some layouts in bangalore i live in btm layout if i throw a stone from my terrace in any direction it will definitely hit a software engineer this film is an effort to look closely into their lives and bring out some comedy for the audience we hit upon this idea because the theme is fresh shky dwells on how indian techies fail to follow japanese accents and table manners the japanese actors are expats living in the city there is a canadian actor too theres a comedy of errors due to differences in accents culture and etiquette between the japanese instructors and trainees competition gives rise to envy conflict and misunderstandings they form groups to outdo each other in the end there is chaos apart from their professional lives they also have to deal with personal dreams love and longing for siddarth the movie is a dream come true even when i was at iit i was dreamed about films i worked as a finance consultant but the passion for films made me learn cinematography all the artistes in the movie are from theatre it has seven songs three in english three in hindi and one mizo he says