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My Short Film ‘Cupcake’
Potpourri
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My Dream
n the summer vacation, I met my cousin, Pranay Bhayya who is in y dream is to become a cricketer like Quinton de Kock.
12th grade. He does great camerawork and is very good at making He is a young player from South Africa and has scored a
short films. He told me that he was going to make a short film century at the Vivo IPL 2016. I want to become a cricketer
Ititled ‘Cupcake’ and he felt that I could act in it as the protagonist. Mlike him. Cricket is a type of sport which needs a lot of
I got very excited and accepted the offer with great zeal. We shot the practice and I am ready for that. It motivates me to accept my mistakes
film in about two days and I realized that it is a very difficult yet and yet enjoy myself. I wish to start with representing my school, then
exciting task. I learnt a lot of camera tricks and acting skills from my the state of Delhi and finally my country, India. I want my dream to
cousin. The film is about innocence, greed, love, satisfaction and hope. come true and will work hard to achieve it.
It was released through YouTube and we have had some overwhelming Divij Wahi, P3 D
responses for the film ever since. My acting has been appreciated by
one and all and I feel proud of myself. For some days, my family and My Hobbies
friends treated me like a star and I
felt on top of the world. The film has y name is Piya. My hobbies are singing and dancing.
already won the best short film award My favourite singers are Michael Jackson and Taylor
at the ‘MAAC Animation Institute’ Swift. I hope to become a great singer like them when
recently. It has also been nominated and MI grow up. I also enjoy dancing. My guru is the Padma
submitted in various other short film Vibhushan awardee, Dr. Sonal Mansingh. I like to play sports too.
competitions and I am very hopeful that I go for badminton classes with my sister every day. There, I have
it will do very well. I also did a stage to run, exercise and do as many as 200 skips. Apart from all this, I
show with a theatre group during the find travelling very fascinating. Recently, I went to Agra and Jammu
summer holidays and I was one of the &Kashmir which are known for their historical sites and scenic beauty
top performers there as well. My stage respectively. It is my wish to visit Europe and see the Eiffel Tower in
confidence has grown because of my Paris and the Leaning Tower of Pisa some day.
on stage participation in school. I feel Piya Gupta, P4 B
grateful to my teachers for giving me
the confidence to perform in front of the
camera and on the stage. y hobby is reading. In my free time, I like to read
Rehan Katyal, P5 A newspapers, novels or general knowledge books. My father
motivates me to read more and more. I keep receiving
My Visit to the Mbooks from friends and family. I like to sing and have
taken part in singing competitions in which I have received some lovely
Haldiram Factory books as prizes. Reading has enabled me to gain knowledge, improve
my communication skills and build up my vocabulary. I believe it is
indeed one of the best hobbies.
magine drums and drums of potato Krishav Joneja, P5 D
chips, bhujia, kurkure, papad and
more chips! Yummm... It was A Book Review
Ifor real when I visited the world
famous Haldiram factory in Noida. I he book that I’m writing about is ‘Percy Jackson - The Battle
saw the complete process of how some of the Labyrinth’. Percy is the son of Poseidon and a Demi-
of my favourite savouries are made. In God. A Demi-God is someone who is half god and half
completely automatic machines, what Thuman. Poseidon is the second oldest Greek God and the God
went in as raw potatoes came out as of Water. In this book, Percy is on a mission to save his friends from
golden crisp potato chips. It was very monsters. The monsters intend to sneak upon and attack his friends in
interesting to learn how chips are made the labyrinth. The labyrinth is an underground tunnel which can take
and packed. The best was when I got you anywhere. I loved reading the book and hope you do too.
to eat the chips that I saw getting Aryan Malhotra, P5 B
made right in front of my eyes with the
manufacturing date of just that day.
Devasya Agarwal, P3 C
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