{"id":59246,"date":"2025-08-11T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59246\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:21:13","slug":"filmmaker-manish-mundra-on-his-new-book-set-in-africa-wildlife-photography-teaches-you-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59246\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Manish Mundra on his new book set in Africa: Wildlife photography teaches you discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He lets his heart lead the way when it comes to backing stories in the world of cinema. And the same spirit drives filmmaker Manish Mundra as he puts his money in capturing wildlife. His maiden photo book titled Wild Africa: Through My Lens, is out and he says without any qualms: \u201cI don\u2019t expect it to sell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Filmmaker-author Filmmaker-author Manish Mundra has come up with his maiden book on wildlife photography. <\/p>\n

The bold statement by this avid photographer, who takes his \u201ccamera everywhere\u201d, comes along with insights into how he was led by his passion when he saw a void in quality work in this genre. \u201cI took it up because photographing wildlife is my passion and I didn\u2019t want to compromise on the printing… So, I exactly know where to put the money as there\u2019s only one life to live,\u201d adds the 52-year-old.<\/p>\n

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You have to be really patient with Nature, and follow it with discipline to get the right moment at the right point. Manish Mundra, Filmmaker-author<\/p>\n

Narrating how it took him almost 10 years to muster \u201cthe courage to\u201d collate his clicks for the world\u2019s viewing, the producer of acclaimed films such as Masaan (2015) and Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2019), shares, \u201cIn the last 2-3 years I decided to come up with this coffee table book so that I could send it to libraries across the country, for people to not just see but also feel the magic of wildlife and get motivated to capture it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Some Some adorable moments of wild animals, in their natural habitat, will make you pause as you flip over the pages of this hardbound book. (Photo: Manish Mundra) <\/p>\n

The hardbound book, printed by Rupa Publications, encapsulates some adorable and charismatic emotions of wild animals in their natural habitat. \u201cAmong these, leopards were the most difficult to click as they are very shy,\u201d reveals the lensman, adding, \u201cI\u2019m a traveller, and have photographed cities like Paris, Switzerland, and Italy. One day, I would probably come up with a book on those. But, because I\u2019ve been in Africa for 20 years, and wildlife gives me that resting place, I chose this subject for my first photo book. Every year, a couple of times, I visit Masai Mara and Serengeti. These places have good guides who even tell you when is the next hunt going to happen!\u201d<\/p>\n

Chasing the wild, what this producer-turned-author has learnt is how \u201cNature humbles you\u201d and how \u201cwildlife photography teaches discipline\u201d. He elaborates, \u201cThe best pictures are clicked between 7am to 9am or 10am. You cannot get up at 9am and think you would go late and find those shots…. There were many incidents when we were stuck for hours due to the rains. Also, you never know when you could get attacked since the jeeps are open.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He lets his heart lead the way when it comes to backing stories in the world of cinema.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,48306,134,39327,48304,48307,48305,30351],"class_list":{"0":"post-59246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-coffee-table-book","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-htcity","14":"tag-masai-mara","15":"tag-rupa-publications","16":"tag-serengeti","17":"tag-wildlife-photography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}