![]() He plays the villain whom he describes as a unique and interesting character. The more you try to make a pan-Indian film and appeal to everyone, you would dumb-down your film so much."Īnurag Kashyap in ''Akira' (Photo: Fox Star Studios)Īfter the festival he will resume shooting director Ajay Gnanamuthu’s thriller Imaikkaa Nodigal alongside Nayanthara and Atharvaa, his first role in a Tamil film. I think it is pointless to address that because people do things differently and are so diverse. The only film that has reached across this year is Sairat (Marathi director Nagraj Manjule’s tale of teenage forbidden love). The films that cater to the urban centers don’t appeal to the rural areas. Kashyap pinpoints a major problem facing Indian filmmakers, observing, “ You don’t have a pan-Indian film any more. The film collected just 7 crore ($1.05 million) in India but the production budget was less than half of that so the production made a profit after a lucrative sale to Netflix and other non-theatrical revenues. Puttnam said the competition was so close between the actors the jury awarded a special mention to Nawazuddin Siddiqui for his performance in Raman Raghav 2.0, in which he played the psychopath Raman, who had a strange obsession with an equally disturbed cop named Raghav (Vicky Kaushal). Jury member Jan Chapman said of Bajpayee, “It was superb, such a moving performance, I was really affected by the humanity and the depth.” Fellow juror Shyam Benegal observed, “He gave such an extraordinarily fine performance, extremely well delineated with lots of little details, an extremely well crafted role." Manoj Bajpayee, who starred in Gangs of Wasseypur, won this year's APSA best actor award for Aligarh. His recent producer credits include Udta Punjab, Masaan and Shaandaar. He won APSA’s international grand jury prize for 2012’s Gangs of Wasseypur, which screened at Directors Fortnight in Cannes, and he produced the APSA jury grand prize winner The Lunchbox (2013) and best youth feature film nominee Udaan (2010). Kashyap was nominated for best director for Raman Raghav 2.0, which chronicled the life of a serial killer in present day Mumbai. India's Sunny Pawar, 8, earned a jury grand prize special mention for his nuanced portrayal of the young Saroo Brierley in Garth Davis’ Lion. Lord David Puttnam headed the international jury which evaluated 39 films from 19 countries and awarded the best feature prize to Turkey's Cold of Kalanda. “If you make films on contained budgets the financial pressure is not much,” Kashyap told me on the line from Brisbane, where he attended the 10 th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) on November 24. The writer-director-actor imposes strict financial disciplines to ensure his budgets are very economical and hence do not need to earn huge sums theatrically to break even. ![]()
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