IANS Interview: Payal Kapadia and Raghu Daggubati

IANS INDIA

In an IANS interview with Payal Kapadia and Raghu Daggubati, they discussed Chhaya Kadam and how she relates to her role. Additionally, acknowledge that South Koreans will face fierce competition from Indian material, especially when it comes to connecting with their diverse consumers. The movie 'All We Imagine As Light' will be released on November 22, 2024.  #PayalKapadia #Raghu Daggubati #NewFilmRelease #Interview #ChhayaKadam #Trending #2024 #BollywoodCountry #BollywoodNews #BollywoodGossips #BollywoodUpdates #BollywoodNews #Bollywood #Bollywoodcelebrity #BollywoodHindiNews #ians

Transcript

00:00I mean I was, I've been a fan for 10 years so when I approached her I was a little scared

00:13that you know will she agree, won't she agree, what will she say, what is the script, nonsense

00:17but just to talk to her and first meeting only was really friendly, very nice and actually

00:25she is from that region that Parvati is from, immediately when she heard that and her father

00:33was also used to work in the mills in Mumbai, so she knew this history very well, Mumbai's

00:41past is that, so many people came from Ratnagiri over the 20th century to work in cotton mills

00:46and so many people lost their houses after the strikes and the mills shutting down, so

00:52I think she was very well aware of that history and the connection between the two spaces,

00:57so immediately she felt connected, she's like I know many people like this

01:03and then she brought, she's a genius, so she like, if I had written a line also she will make it more

01:11her own with some, her own kind of lyricism you know,

01:15Ekta Jeev Sadashiv, I had only written I want to be alone, Ekta Jeev Sadashiv, I can make t-shirts of this and wear it.

01:24Yeah, yeah, definitely.

01:28She has that quality and in fact there's only one song in the film,

01:36she suggested that we will dance to that song, so they that because the lyrics were so funny and

01:41she was saying that Parvati's state of mind is that, then why the hell have I come back, so you

01:46know in olden days in like more previous Hindi cinema at least the thing used to be that

01:53the not it is just Hindi cinema, all cinema it used to and even now sometimes the song takes the

01:58story forward because of lyrics, so we wanted to have the lyrics making sense to the situation

02:04and we were using an already composed song, so she picked this one.

02:08Okay.

02:14I think one, there is a all India movement happening across the world, everyone's very

02:19curious about what we do, they're curious that there's so much different types of things that

02:24come out of India whether it's kind of films or just things from the country are being spoken

02:30about, so I think it's a nice one India wave that's going on and I know it's not something

02:35that will be short because India has so much variety to keep delivering over and over again,

02:40so yeah I think that's the flavor of the world also, you start seeing new things happen.

02:51See, it's funny right like when we're in India we mostly I mean okay she's different but

02:57we mostly think for Indian audience, we just want our people to watch our film and that's

03:00our first sense but we go to the rest of the world because their populations are much smaller,

03:06they find a way to reach the world because otherwise it doesn't make sense for them.

03:11I think somewhere it's a two-way street where we start looking at the world as one and say okay

03:16now whether I make a film in Marathi or Telugu should cut across and there should be French

03:21people watching it, so I think once the thought starts coming then we'll start creating cinema

03:26like that. I think that we make really good films just these people are waking up late.

03:37We are storytellers because we have come from such diverseness otherwise I don't think we would

03:42have been storytellers in the first place because there's so much in India that it has to offer us

03:48and I feel like it's how do you get your story cut across to more and more people.

03:55It's a challenge because there's so many people, it's also the convenience because there's so many

03:59people there to watch it if it works. So I think it's never a challenge just that's

04:05I mean population on a different level is a challenge not for filmmakers or art. I think that

04:11you know the more specific you are to the films, characters, to the locations, to the

04:18you know with detail, with care if you look at everything then it won't feel specific, it will

04:24just feel universal and then everybody like why when I was growing up also I used to watch films

04:30from all countries, from India also but I used to watch from Iran and all that. Why was I connecting

04:35to some film about a kid you know trying to go to school in Iran because it was so local

04:41I completely like I it was a character that drew me to it so I think it's the same over here if

04:47you make a film that is very specific to a particular place, very particular to the

04:51characters actually that will become more universal.

Category

Transcript

Recommended