Sudhir Mishra, director of ‘Hazoron Khwishin IC’: I am not always in favor of my characters

“No critic asks me why I name a film set around the Emergency after a Ghalib couplet,” Sudhir Mishra is surprised amidst intensive conversation. Two decades later Thousand Khwishin ICA story of incomplete desires prescribed against the Emergency and Naxalite Movement shook our spirits, director Sudhir Mishra is setting another drama against politically unstable period.

Spread over eight episodes, title Summer of 77 Long looks like HKA. Deep cracks on Mishra’s face give a way to a soft smile. “This is about six-seven characters of various social backgrounds involved in the JP movement, who question India’s idea the idea handed over by his father. It is about rebellion, relationships and politics in the middle.

It’s not HakaHe is distinguished, but as the filmmaker is the same, he says, the audience will see a part of it, his attitude on life. “Whereas Haka warees Towards the Naxalite movement, Summer of 77 It is about the movement launched by Jai Prakash Narayan. In HKA, three letters are hail from a niche class, which we can call Indians Desis For a better word, who struggle to find their own India. Here, the characters come from the middle class of the mainstream, and they are reacting to their India. It talks to today’s audience. ,

‘Hazoron Khwashin IC’ from A Still | Photo Credit: Hindu Archives

Mishra says he was very young in the 1970s, but his elder brother and uncle were very interested. Some people know that Mishra’s Nana, DP Mishra, were a freedom fighter and a staunch Congressman, who served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the 1960s. “He moved out of Congress in 1974 as he could not take what he was happening in the party. A part of the series is based on the remembrance of the period he wrote about the third section of his autobiography. I took over as Ramesh Dixit, which was started as a leftist.” Took over. “

These days, the emergency period has become a tool for filmmakers to comment on today’s politics. “This is important because the results of that period are now being felt. Most of the events today are determined by the politics of the period,” Mishra argues, which was part of the jury in the Mahindra Excellence at the Theater Awards this year, where political plays were well received.

Not interested in the entertainment of the past, the filmmaker says in his universe, “Emergency becomes a metaphor for the idea that every time a political establishment imposes itself itself, there is a reaction to it.”

He underlines He stays hka Fresh because it “reacts to young people anytime, anywhere, the world that cope with them.” They want to realize their ability, but they do not follow the path given to them.

Kay Kay Menon, Chitrangada Singh and Shiney Ahuja ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’ still in one. Photo Credit: Hindu Archives

The title, they say, represents Mirza Ghalib’s influence on him. “This is a kind of Sufi scene about life. I am not always in favor of my characters. I am afraid after seeing myself in the dark of idealistic theater. Extreme fundamentalists become mild.”

Right from Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) What is Raat Ki Subahh Nahan Vikram Malhotra (Menon of Kai) Haka, Iyon Mani (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) serious manAnd in Rahab (Nawaz) RumorMishra did not place his male hero on a pedestal, from various social groups. More than heroes, it is like Mishra like in the Gita Haka Or Jasmine This seems more in control of the condition. “I find women more decisive. They consider the loss better. They are ready to accept more mistakes than men .. They are open to accept what life provides and hugging it. They make for emotionally rich characters,” Mishra said. It is not that he does not understand his male hero. “My men are not weak, but they are weak. They are soft. They make mistakes.” A section of audience and film stars, they feel, there is a problem with that kind of expression. “I don’t think there is such a thing as a permanent hero. Everyone is a hero in some time limit.”

For example, he says, Rahab lives in a generous bubble of literary festivals. “That world does not open the door to him when he needs it the most. This story of finding permanent heroes has destroyed the world. The idea that a hero will come to change the world. After the landscape, there is a joy at any time, and there is light at the end of the tunnel, and often you are not ready for life. They become advertising for fairness creams.”

Mishra feels that filmmaker, film critics also need to understand life. “Most people who write about the films installed in the north do not understand the specialties of the region. For example, in, RumorA prominent critic questioned how the villagers did not identify Vicky, they did not realize that he is a small -time MLA in one of the 200 regions in the state. ,

Remembering your experience with JasmineMishra says that many people did not see the plot as an impossible situation, who talks about the right of a sex worker to say not to say and ignore how the film navigates the relationship between her and the pimp. “The success of the film was largely reduced in two songs, set seas and sea re man. They are very good songs, but a lot.”

Mishra has entered the mainstream place with films Calcutta MailBut this has not been a satisfactory experience. “The only way to make a good film is that you want to see yourself. The directors making mainstream films are in the sink with the audience of those films. They should not show off in the evening that they are better than the audience.”

On the way forward, Mishra says that he has decided to return as a boy who has created Dharawi In 1991. “I want to make films without care, not going to the wide Bombay’s detailed systems that make cinema expensive, but the investment does not reflect on the screen. If you see Malayalam cinema, they raise the rich subjects, but they are not necessarily big bodies.”