"Cult" was a great experience and from the start. "I was determined to make a feature film sitting in San Jose bay area", says Mahesh. Mahesh didn't know where to   start. It was a daunting experience that the project will not come to a reality adds Mahesh.  But luckily Mahesh was introduced to IMAGE (http://www.imagesite.org) which was a great platform to take the first step. At this platform, Mahesh found the screenwriter Rebecca Sanders. Mahesh adds  "I am so impressed with her that I am working with her on the next feature film." There were seven versions of it and one fine day when Mahesh got script and I was reading it and for the next ninety minutes I was glued to my seat and I didn't move and I immediately called Rebecca "Becky" and I told her that the script was done." I believe that a screenwriter/screenplay is the blue print of a film and any film maker shouldn't compromise it at any cost" Mahesh qoutes.

Then, came the process of Cast and Crew selection which Mahesh had no experience with. He quickly found out that there were many avenues to find talent in the bay area. Mahesh says that "there are a lot of talents in the bay area which haven't been tapped into". He also assembled a small crew which was constantly changing. He had go through 3 camera operators, 2 Director of Photography, 2 gaffers and so on.. but the cast remained the same!! Mahesh adds "it was weekends after weekends shoot and at times it felt that the end was never there".

Once the principle photography was complete, the challenges of editing started. Mahesh spent grueling three months to complete the post-production on the film.  "My wife and kids would be sleeping and he would sneak out of the bedroom and start editing which would continue into late nights", Mahesh adds. 

Then came the most exciting part when he was finally able to premier at Camera 3 Cinemas. It was a full house showing, around 300 people showed up for the premier! It was the most delightful and a very proud moment for Mahesh and his entire cast and crew.