What happens when an entire narrative moves in reverse? How does one maintain the drama of the screenplay? How does one keep the grammar of the shot taking forward while the action in the film moves backwards? These and many other questions and challenges were the seeds because of which "Rewind" was born.

The essence of a reverse film is in its design. Essentially, the beginning becomes the climax of the film and vice versa. The shot design becomes a very important tool. I was ably assisted in this by my Director of Photography Sudhakar Yakkanti.

Should the sound also be in reverse? That was one of the key area of discussion. After a lot of experimenting by my Sound Designer Dara Singh Saihmee, it was eventually decided to record the sound the way one sees it on screen. We even experimented with a mix of reverse and straight sounds but finally decided to stick to straight sounds.

Rewind takes the whole form of reverse and sees it through to the end. As the film moves in reverse, the voiceover of the blind man moves in a forward way and it is at the climax of the film that the two merge. The whole action of the scenes is in real time and action continuity was key in dynamising the shot taking in the film.

The biggest fear in making Rewind was that while watching the film, one should not get the feel that the film was shot straight and then just reversed in the editing, hence every effort was made to keep the grammar of the film forward. Hope we succeeded.