Veteran director says he by no means wished to cease directing movies however the “shrinkage” of cinema-going affected his profession, talks about directing an Indo-Bangladesh collaboration
12 years after Well Done Abba (2010), filmmaker Shyam Benegal is again with a movie. Titled Mujib: The Making Of A Nation, it’s an Indo-Bangladesh collaboration primarily based on the lifetime of Sheikh Majibur Rahman, the primary President of Bangladesh.
Quiz him about what saved him away from directing a function movie for thus lengthy and the a number of National Award successful director says, “For an independent filmmaker, there are two important things. You’ve to have a subject that excites you enough for you to be inspired and make a film on it. When you find the subject, you’ve to have people who will put money into it, and that’s not always easy.”
Benegal additionally feels that the growth within the tv house had an influence on cinema, which made him take it sluggish, professionally. “Television grew and cinema audiences shrank. Then TV diffused and things went all over the place. That made us pause and so, we weren’t able to make the kind of films we wanted to,” he says, including that he at all times wished to maintain making movies with none break very similar to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
While he continues to observe up to date cinema, he laments the dearth of theatrical releases right now. And the 87-year-old believes that the surge of content material on OTT has a task to play in that course.
“There was time when India was making the maximum number of films. When I started making feature films, I was working three films in two years. In fact, there was a time when I had two films in a year. Films are being made for the web space today too. Yes, a bit of the traditional form of cinema is still being made but in languages I don’t know,” ends the Manthan (1976) and Mandi (1983) director.
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