Amidst a variety of enlightening lectures at ISM, I learnt a lot about the industry but the day I found my calling, I still remember, was when I had attended the lecture on Direction. ISM faculty member and Ace Director/Producer Vaibhav Modi, who went on to become my mentor, took me under his wings and that marked a career-defining time because later I joined his production house Victor Tango Entertainment PVT LTD in September 2018. I currently work as an in-house Assistant Director. Unlike most production houses, Victor Tango allows you to grow and learn and share ideas and lets you understand other departments in a production company. Vaibhav sir is a great mentor and boss to me. Here, I’ve learnt that even after planning the perfect schedule, you are sometimes challenged on set with so many obstacles. It’s in times like these that I learnt to have a plan and work together to achieve my goal. Now, a year later, that once clueless boy, has completed 3 projects with Victor Tango (2 fiction, 1 non-fiction) and is even more confident at what he does. I can't thank ISM enough for helping me realise my calling.