| Five by Four | |
| Director: | Roopa Swaminathan |
| Producer: | Sunit Tandon |
| Story: | Roopa Swaminathan |
| Screenplay: | Roopa Swaminathan |
| Starring: | Divyadarshini Hardeep Minhas Preetha Eashwar Rao Cary Edwards Sapna Usha Seetharam |
| Music: | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| Cinematography: | Ravi Varman |
| Editing: | S. Satheesh J. N. Harsha |
| Studio: | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | English |
Five by Four is a 2003 Indian English film written and directed by Roopa Swaninathan.[1] It stars VJs Cary Edwards, Sapna and Usha Seetharam, Eashwar Rao, television artistes Venkat, Preetha Raaghav and Divyadarshini and popular Kannada model Hardeep Minhas.[2] The music was by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by Ravi Varman.[3] The film in English was produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC).[4] It did not get a theatrical release,[5] but was screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Writers market at Santa Monica, and other venues.[6]
Roopa Swaminathan signed up with Penguin and was writing short stories for a book. She thought the stories could be made into a feature films and approached the National Film Development Corporation of India.[4] The film consists of four stories about a gang of five girls.[7] She first named the film "Five String Quartet".[2] The film was shot entirely in Tamil Nadu.[8] The director planned to shoot the whole film in 25 days, but completed it in 18 days as she had rehearsed with the actors for nearly four months.[2] Swaminathan also wrote about her experience making the film in her book Stardust: Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry, which won the National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema.[9]