![]() I’d shot some eight to 10 marriages, and one day, this magazine, Celebrity, wanted me to cover a party. So, I used to shoot marriages with it to make money. It didn’t have any additional lenses, and since my mother was running the family by singing and also selling UNICEF cards on the road, I did not want to ask her. ![]() One of the scenes that is very close to me is the one where you see the character doing wedding photography. So, the question was how to adapt it and use elements from my life and put them in those characters’ lives.Ĭertain elements of me is in Manohar’s character. So, for me, this was a story of two sisters who were different as characters and there was already a literary reference. And if it was about two sisters, they would be about the two girls falling in love with the same guy and the conflict that results. In Indian films, if we have a story of two brothers, they tend to be films like Deewar, where one becomes a cop and the other becomes a criminal. But I didn’t have a literary story of two brothers onto which I could transpose my life experiences. He writes poems while I’m a science geek. Though my brother and I were living in the same house, we chose different trajectories in life. The fact the lives of my brother and myself changed after our father died, leaving my mother to raise us, and the struggles that marked those 15 years… that resonated with me. How did you decide that you wanted to tell that through the prism of a Jane Austen story? You have said that the film is also based on the lives of you and your brother. I chose a typical Indian style of narration. It also delineated the setting - the first half is set in the village and the second half in the city, a trope that you find in films like Sakalakala Vallavan. Take the aspect of two sisters who had to move out of their homes… I moved it to the mid-point of my story, a sort-of before and after. There was already a template in the form of Sense And Sensibility, written by Jane Austen, from which I took certain elements and Indianised them. This one was between two sisters and what happens in their family. The characters in that film came from a dream-like space, and most of it was shot inside the studio or in places that did not look like real places. I’m not a prolific filmmaker, but I try exploring something new each time.
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