From the Exorcist to ten Kamals  Sharmila Ganesan-Ram, TNN Sep
20, 2009, 05.41am IST  If drinking beer were a career option,
Brian Jennings would have lapped it up 20 years ago. But this
New Yorker, who wears a white dhoti at home, finds his current
occupation equally intoxicating. After all, it involves such
highs as destroying entire villages, provoking ghosts and
shrinking children. His weapons of mass destruction are a pencil
and a laptop so vintage that it was quite a task for the staff
at Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) to find a
compatible adaptor.  Fifty-one-year-old Jennings, the visual
effects (VFX) supervisor of over 35 Hollywood films including
The Exorcist, is in Mumbai for a seminar organised by MAAC,
bravely titled: `How India can win an Oscar in VFX in the next
five years'. It's not an unrealistic ambition, feels Jennings,
pushing up the glasses that have slipped down his nose. "India
has the talent and the technology. It's only a question of
experience.''  He must know. After all,