We are at Subi Samuel's studio which has been transformed into the lair of the Catwoman, who with a crack of a whip has everyone running around her succumbing to her every desire. The stunning looking Shilpa Shetty is practicing with a whip for her shoot in which her get up would inspire Tim Burton to make a Catwoman film and put Michelle Pfeiffer to shame. Subi is focused and his eye seems to be a shutter to the camera which is his world, as with a sharp look he looks at his muse before letting rip with his enigmatic image catcher.

"This is Shilpa's shoot, we're going for a different look," he informs me casually in between all the chaos swirling around me.

His assistants scurry all over the studio, raising lights and shifting backdrops all at the mental command of the ace photographer, as onlookers watch in amazement as poetry unfold before their eyes. Writers beware: inspiration overload. Subi is not a point and click man, his work is his life and art, and with careful precision he steals moments from reality immortalising them in his photographs to live on forever in the minds of whoever is fortunate enough to see them.

"Nikhil!" he bellows as a reflector is not held at the right angle for his model to be lit exactly how he wishes, and promptly his right hand boy gulps and changes the angle. 'Genius at Work' is what the door should read, yet to capture in words what magic Subi weaves would be to limit an art and so this report will have to suffice.

I take this opportunity to corner Reza Shariffi, the man who has created and designed the catsuit for Shilpa as well as many other creations here today, and he happily talks of his work with as much passion as anyone who has an infinite enthusiasm for his art.
"Shilpa's catsuit is for a fantasy sequence for a magazine and she wanted to be a catwoman, which made me really happy because she is the perfect person and has the perfect body to fit into a catsuit. It was very easy body-wise to make the outfit for her because it fits her like a glove and is body-hugging suit. You can see the results!" he says with a smile as we prepare for her next entry which like a phaser, is set on sun.

Shilpa walks in wearing silver hot pants and a matching top, standing in front of the grunge-green background. As Subi takes his place after describing a pose - she breaks into a barrage of poses, each one pleasing Subi's eye causing him to scream ecstatic praises her way in turn evoking more striking poses surpassing the last.

My eyes scan the room as everyone is either running around preparing for the next shot or staring at the photographer and the person he is capturing, trying to understand how their world works and how they have co-ordinated a perfect complementation. The final change occurs and a gold corset covers Shilpa along with blue denims, with her hair flashing hoped gold earrings in giggling snatches. Her smile commands attention and her beauty stands bold as Subi's shutter slices through time, imprisoning nano-seconds onto rolls of film.

She knows her job as does he, causing an unnerving anticipation for all of us waiting to witness the first peep at his masterpieces and wondering how dream pictures are painted through this killer combination.

Clicks fly and shutters slam before the final kill is made and the shoot is canned close to how the master wishes it to be.

"Pack up," he casually announces, staring deep within my eyes searching for a reaction to his shoot, before calling on his assistants to transform his studio back to normal. An empty space with a bookshelf in one corner and candles on the other, music dancing in the air and a wide open space where moments ago timeless art was created. The sounds simmer to silence and the bright bulbs fade to black as you realise what creations have just been born. The following minutes are just enough to allow the world to return to its usual rotation before he sets off again like a lit firecracker. Expect the unexpected, forget all you know: You've just witnessed a shoot courtesy of Subi Samuel.