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From Below-the-line To Above-the-line, How He Shaped His Career In Bollywood

Alan McAlex is a maverick with an unusual life, a bit like the cinema he works for

From Below-the-line To Above-the-line, How He Shaped His Career In Bollywood
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A whiteboard that hangs in his office in Juhu could be the metaphor for Alan McAlex바카라™s life. His career began from being a camera assistant on the sets of Ghajini to becoming a line producer and, then, a producer and it always involved wiping the slate clean. It wasn바카라™t planned. He was born in Saudi Arabia and moved to India right before the Gulf War. His father sent him to meet a friend of his in Delhi and his neighbours had given him a gift that was to be delivered to someone in Noida. He met a woman there who was going for a film editing course and he tagged along. He enrolled in 1998. He later became interested in camera and lighting and worked for years as an assistant and then became a line producer.

Until 2010, McAlex, 46, was among the below-the-line crew list and then he entered the realm of those above-the-line.

(This appeared in the print edition as "A Picaresque Passage")

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