Creating a Family Legacy Video

Dear All,

Rather I just say dearest all, what I am going to describe here is something that's in my heart for a very long time. I think of it as a dream project in my mind of the highest value. There is nothing more valuable that I can think of sharing between all of us and pass to future generations. I am extremely confident that all of us would like the idea that am going to share in a bit. This is going to be a time consuming process and it requires a great attention and care from all of you as much as an infant requires from their mother. It's a seed that needs to be nourished with your love, enthusiasm, vision to see create the most invaluable asset we can ever build in our entire life time. So, let's get into a 10 feet detail to start with. 

As I mentioned earlier, it's going to take time and it can be an evolving round of thoughts to be gathered from all of you. 

I wanted to create a collection of video's (mainly), where all our Sadhu family members from the Ganapavaram Tree (our majestic Grandfather Satyanarayana Sharma & revered Grand mother Smt. Sadhu Subbamma garu) will be part of this dream project. I guess one of the first things could be to come up with a name for this monumental effort. What we would like to have as part of this video will be as follows.

1. Introduction to Sadhu Family. (from deepest roots that we can re-collect)
2. What our family stands for, our core values, how we are all so closely connected having such a big family.
3. No one is perfect in this world and every family has certain challenges, but we are all together, what makes us love each other.
4. A video interview (similar to Open Heart by RK in ABN Channel) where our 9 fathers / spouses share their life experiences in a nut shell. (To be decided on the length of video).
5. We all know that ageing is something common for all us, it’s the heaviest truth, but something I can’t digest. But reality is reality, we would like to preserve what we can in our hearts and be able to pass it on to future generations this way.
6. Cover all off springs (Generation 3 - Eg: Kiran annayya, Ravi bava - staring with elders - till Chinna bujji babai's son) of these 9 brothers/sisters(Generation 2) group and their off springs (Generation 4 - Not sure who is the eldest ? May be Koushik ? Youngest I think Vijay's daughter.
7. There can be a more items as we work on this project.

Thank you for taking time to read through, as you can guess by now, this is going to take time and hearty effort to build such a video. But our biggest advantage is ourselves working together. Just like a small key open a big door, all this project requires is, your smart phone, a good environment to make our parents comfortable and you will take video collecting their experiences, values and reference pictures, like our Ganapavaram home, school where we played lot of Cricket, back yard tub, well where we had lot of fun as kids, the list can just be anything that’s part of building a great memorable collection. We will need a common list of questions.

I am also planning to get in touch with a professional anchor who did such interviews of celebrities, in stage 2 I will engage a professional to make a beautiful movie kind of CD encapsulating all of what we collected in bits and pieces. There will be professional editing and everything that it needs to make this video a very memorable one.

Any one of you volunteering to come forward and share some of this project load is most welcome. I talked to Kiran annayya and he gladly accepted to help and guide.

Please let me know your thoughts on this project. Do you like to see something like this happening ? a video that you can watch in your home with children, family & friends in few hours recollecting, cherishing a life time of memories?

Please add your comments to this post with any suggestions, ideas that can help to make this project one of the best experiences.