Indian Crossover Films
Besides the typical Bollywood candyfloss romances doing rounds, a new breed of offbeat films are wooing India’s growing English-speaking urban elite.
[India News]: New Delhi
Besides the typical Bollywood candyfloss romances doing rounds, a new breed of offbeat films are wooing India’s growing English-speaking urban elite.
The latest to join the bandwagon of these crossover films is “White Noise”, premiered in the capital on Tuesday.
The English language “White Noise” is based on suburban life and deals with the issues of women’s liberation and freedom in a mature manner, in today’s world when values and morals are rare to find. The film’s subject takes the audience deep into the cutthroat world of production houses involved in the relentless process of churning out soaps without moralistic values.
The film is set-up in suburban Bombay and is a modern comment on how life in the city of dreams takes a backseat with expression and talent being replaced by ego and judgement.
The film, starring crossover favourites Rahul Bose and Koel Puri in the lead roles, will also be dubbed in Hindi to reach larger audiences.
Vinta Nanda, who shot to fame in the ’90s, with satellite soap, “Tara”, directs “White Noise”.
“At this point in time I am completely numb. I don’t know. We made this film with absolute sincerely. We have obviously put in our best to make it as real as possible but not losing out in terms of making it a slow paced film. It’s a very hip, urban, contemporary, very intriguing music as a soundtrack to it,” she said.
Bose, a well-known rugby player said he fell in love with Puri’s character of a very complex woman.
“I did this film mostly because I feel that in a film like this where you see such a psychotic, dissonant, disturbing female character most men will say, that’s enough, but they have to understand that females like this have a right to exist as well as earn the right to earn someone’s love. So Karan is the man who decides that he loves her, and so I wanted to be that man,” he said.
Puri, who has worked with Bose in film “Everybody says I am Fine”, said she had a challenging role to portray.
“It was a very difficult role to play something so dramatic, so emotional at the onset of my career. Because this kind of role people play when they are established and I am just about starting out. To get to play that role was quite a challenge,” she said.
Just costing a tenth of the average 6-7 million dollar Bollywood blockbuster and shot within a few months, the film dares to be different.
Industry analysts expect offbeat films to influence mainstream Bollywood only in a small way as they are outnumbered by the nearly 1,000 mainstream films. (ANI)
Source: www.news.newkerala.com
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