“The house is a memory, a feeling, or just four walls?” When the world was closing, Shekhar Kapur entered into trouble during Kovid epidemic. Famous filmmaker, who describes himself as a nomad and addressed by his close friend Shabana Azmi, as Ibn Batuta, took refuge in Bhimmatal’s Jones Estate, which he discovered during the resc. Innocent In the early 1980s. In the Seren Retreat, his “continuous discovery for his identity” began taking shape as a spiritual sequel in the next three months.
A product of partition, Kapoor says that the concept of the house has disturbed her forever. “My parents were refugees from Lahore. When he came to Delhi, my mother wanted her place. She used to say forever. “Menu Ghar Chaida Hai”And my doctor father will remind him that he has lost his house now. “Kapoor remembers that when construction started in Maharani Bagh; now when my parents have gone, my sister lives there, and I roam from one city to another. The kind of calls I receive, it seems that the house has been reduced to a piece of real estate. I will joke that a earthquake will not shake the house, but the real estate can be shocked in the price of real estate. After all, we are the countries of migrants.
Shekhar Kapoor | Photo Credit: Getty Images
Pangs of Partition, Kapoor clarified, did not make him bitter, but made him restless forever. At the age of 24, Kapoor says he decided that he would not have a career. “If the idea of a film comes in front of me, I go to the set; if a music stimulates my imagination, Masum -2,
This year, along with Padma Bhushan, Kapoor was in Delhi to hold meetings for India’s International Film Festival in his capacity as a festival director in Delhi. As someone has seen his uncle, Dev Anand, takes Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, camphor is in a position to reflect the interaction of cinema and politics. “When I was forcing the national party, he was around. He was a brave person, but I have a philosophy. I am not a political animal, but I think if you are living in a democracy, you have to join the democratically elected government.”
Kapoor says there are issues, but democracy is an open door. “Let’s keep talking. I tell my friends who complain about the censorship that I had to argue for a year to get Dasyu It was released during the Congress rule. I was also showing an Indian reality. For a long time, America has been seen as an independent society, but today I think I can express myself better in India than America ”
Kapoor finds a kind of intellectual tribalism in the upper regions of society. “No class of society can claim that it fully understands or represents India. Freedom of expression cannot be present in a vacuum. It should be with hunger freedom, freedom of educating and freedom from poverty.”
Shekhar Kapoor | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Creative expression is facing a major challenge with artificial intelligence. Kapoor says that AI is a democratic technology, but it cannot make you a better storyteller. “If we are estimated in our creativity, AI will catch. For example, if we want everyone game of Thrones Season for similar character inflicting and atmosphere, AI can do that work. People on top will lose their jobs as the AI will collapse the pyramid. However, the highest form of creativity emerges when we put ourselves in a state of chaos. Life and love exist because there is uncertainty. We can find out uncertainty that she loves me, is she not innumerable by putting herself on line, cannot do a machine. ,
Discussing his struggles with material and form, Kapoor noticed that among his three magnificent maternal uncles, he was emotionally closest to conscious bliss, such as known to direct classics. Neka NagarThe only Indian film to win Palme D’Or in Cannes, whose original theme echoes in Kapoor’s zinc project, Water“Like her, the material comes before the style for me. You can say Shri bharat There was an exception, but again, the style was taken with a strong sense. I saw a place through an 11 -year -old child. And I followed the same process Elizabeth,
He strongly faced the opponents who equaled their restlessness with laziness. Kapoor says that “he wants to climb a new mountain”, and sometimes, when he finds out that he is charting the same path, he is open to cut the adventure, as he did with the projects. Zealous And Rain“I believe that art is a simple idea, and you cannot interfere in your intuition. If you do not have your own intuition, what do you have?” He wonders.
What about Kapoor’s belief of love? In 79, a nomad looks a bit crazy. “For me, settling is a very middle class idea,” that chakli. “For me, love is about to dissolve myself in something. I have felt the strongest bond with my daughter Cauvery. But is the discharge of the house or the discovering more and more quests? Elizabeth That is That question towards the end. Did she become a prisoner by herself, or did she get rid of herself? I am not sure, but I like this idea of not being sure. It inspires me to try …. ”
Published – July 25, 2025 01:28 pm IST
