udaipur fourteenyearold twins pal and chin vardhman showed the courage to do something different to follow their dream they skipped school for three years to pursue their passion of filmmaking they worked nonstop for months spent sleepless nights and their hard work has finally borne fruit the adventure of palchingiri an hourlong scifi science fiction movie is scheduled to be screened at more than a dozen international film festivals that will be organized in chicago san diego boston seattle busan cairo among others in the coming months after the screening sessions the movie would be released in theaters in india next march like other kids we too used to be immersed in the world of animation and games one day our father said why dont you let the world watch your animation instead of the two of you watching animation all day pal and chin shared while speaking to toi the boys then started surfing various tutorials related to animation within a year they developed a few animated games when pal was eight their parents took him to maac a ketan mehtapromoted animation institute in mumbai and after analyzing his animated games the people at the institute allowed him to undertake an advance course of animation which is generally not meant for children that course opened a new vista to our cinematic dreams and aspirations the internet indeed became our guru said pal pal also joined the mumbai digital academy for a short screenplay course and during the course he assisted the institutes director for a short film with pals story and screenplay the film won the first prize in the fiveminute category at one of mumbais cinematic festivals the learning boosted the confidence of our family and they proposed to make a movie said the duo for the film the boys turned their home into a studio a simple cannon camera household lights baggage trolley a piece of green cloth and their computer were the equipment used for shooting pal chin and their mother manju were the star cast besides being lead actors they also doubled up as spot boy lightman cameraman vfx and animation designer set designer costume designer producer and director around 80 shooting was done in their house while a song was dubbed in a mumbai studio apart from financial investment of rs 20 lakh our children gave three precious years to chase their dream this cannot be calculated in terms of money they skipped school and passed their examinations with the help of tuitions at home said chinmay vardhman the proud father wellwishers doubted us whether we were doing the right thing by allowing the boys to stay at home making a movie rather sending them to school but we had full faith on our kids and their talent he added seeing the familys determination even their school seedling public school agreed to let them be away for the entire period of filmmaking the twins are now in class 10 movie synopsis the story revolves