![]() We decided to do extra work and the entire team worked through the night,without extra payment,and we shot the song. ![]() We decided we wanted it for the film,but we did not have it in our schedule. Rizvi: My assistant director found this village mandli singing many songs,out of which Mahmood picked up Mehengayi Dayan,a song that we both really liked. MK Venu: The rights of the people who wrote the Mehengayi Dayan song got written off? How did that happen? But language has certainly got lost in this English-speaking,hero-world of Hindi cinema. If we talk about an urban audience,audience tastes havent changed much. First,how do you define audience? The films are not released on small town single screens anymore,they are only released in multiplexes which are for an urban audience. Rizvi: This is a very complicated question. Have audience tastes changed more towards rural films? Sanjeeb Mukherjee: The film focuses on a rural setting. The discussions would be on the economy,food,etc,not on the film. Once the film was shown,the reaction was to discuss what should be done next. A lot of people have been writing on the Net,there have been blogs. Rizvi: I travelled to the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. Now it has been selected as Indias entry to the Oscars. Sharon Fernandes: Your film has done the round of film festivals. Anger,frustration at the government,the state,the policies…įarooqui: The idea she had came from a thought following the PMs visit: what if there is someone out there who wants to use the scheme? Will he commit suicide because he needs that Rs 1 lakh? The narrative of the film developed as she wrote it. But it is the accumulated anger over many,many years in all of us that translated itself into the film. Rizvi: The starting point for the film was Dr Manmohan Singhs 2004 visit to Andhra Pradesh where he announced a compensation for families in a district that had seen 100 suicides. ![]() ![]() We didnt want well- fed faces from Lagaan,Swades.Īmitabh Sinha: The beginning of the film looked as if it was a satire on the media,especially on TV,but theres a group of people who have seen it as a satire on politics. We wanted fresh faces that would look rural and authentic and fit well into the rural setting. It was critical that we go out and find faces that had never been seen before. We wanted to try and make the film in such a way that we capture reality as it is out there rather than manufacturing or fabricating it for the film. Farooqui: Even if we had gone for known actors,I dont know if it would have ensured box office appeal for us. ![]()
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