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]

• Cary Edwards as Nayan
• Eashwar Rao as Ajay
• Venkat as the stranger
• Divyadarshini as Namitha
• Hardeep Minhas as Aishwarya
• Preetha as Shruti
• Sapna as Shikha Iyer
• Usha Seetharam as Meera
• Sujata Panju as Meenakshi
• Biniu Jha as Renu
• Prabhu as Martin
• Amar as Abhijeet

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]

• Five by Four at Cinemas of India