But that doesn’t mean I will compromise on the kind of stories I want to say or the way I want to say it.
So what is my objective? To tell my stories to as many people as I can. Since the volume goes up almost five times, the loss in the number of people because of the certificate is more than made up by the increase in volume. If I have an ‘A’ film I will release it during the Pujas. The decision variable is the release date. The decision variable is not the writing. Then I’ll sit with my producer and strategise the release date. After writing, then the question of audience comes in. I will write whatever I want to write and whichever aspect of me I want to express. it was tearing me apart and I had to tell it. Or take the case of a film like Rajkahini which had adult content. I just finished writing a violent thriller and that won’t get a ‘U’ certificate. Slipping into a fun mood, Babul Supriyo, who plays a don in Uma, points a prop gun at Srijit during the film shootĭo you then write keeping the family audience in mind, the elderly audience who are filling the theatres and watching Bengali films? The emphasis has shifted to the family audience.
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They watch films and web series on Netflix and Amazon. In the last couple of years, a large section of the youth have moved to watching content on the Internet.
This is an active mental thing that happens to me. Then I try to seek answers and solve the dilemma and write stories that have death hovering somewhere. Will I become a ghost? Will I know that I am no more? Will I become an ectoplasm? Will I become a soul? Is there an afterlife? How will I exist? And I become sad because I don’t know this. I don’t even know what state I would be in. I feel that when I pass on I won’t be able to see this beautiful world, eat the things I love eating, watch cricket or films or hear songs. There are mornings when I wake up and feel very sad. There are a lot of questions about death that intrigues me. Which is possibly why it comes back as a recurrent theme.
I try to find my own path of negotiation. Different films negotiate the truth in different ways. No it doesn’t, maybe because it is the greatest truth… and filmmking is about looking for the truth. That would have been the easiest thing to do as a storyteller.īut your obsession with death comes through in all your films. What is more important is the time which is left.Īnd you didn’t want easy sympathy from the audience. It doesn’t matter what the terminal disease is. That death is there is an inevitability and it doesn’t matter how the death comes. We all suffer from the same disease, which is mortality. It’s great that you didn’t have a hospital scene involving Uma (Sara Sengupta)…įrom Day One I was very clear that this is going to be a story about hope, love… I did not want to put a hospital scene just to manipulate death. What makes it even sweeter is the coming back of my core audience - who had got a bit disillusioned with me, some with Yeti Obhijaan and some with Zulfiqar - and a good amount of critical acclaim. Congratulations on the box-office success of Uma, which is in its fourth week.
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