Jaideep Sarkar, who earlier made a documentary on rock band Indian Ocean, is using the life and work of Sudhir Mishra to look into the ethos of those who chose to make non-mainstream cinema
Jaideep Sarkar, who earlier made a documentary on rock band Indian Ocean, is using the life and work of Sudhir Mishra to look into the ethos of those who chose to make non-mainstream cinema
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Now another Indian filmmaker is set to join Ray in that rare list. For the last one month, Jaideep Sarkar, who earlier made a well-received documentary on rock band Indian Ocean, has been following filmmaker Sudhir Mishra to make a documentary on him. So far, they have already travelled to Delhi where Mishra spent many years as a youngster. Next they will travel to Madhya Pradesh and Lucknow, where Mishra grew up.
According to Mishra, he was earlier reluctant to give in to the idea of a documentary on himself, thinking that such a film might appear narcissistic. "But I got sucked into the project because Jaideep wanted to use my life and cinema as a window to look into the culture of the kind of filmmaking that I represent. What happened to my colleagues and the idealism of our cinema?"
The director adds, "So many of my colleagues from non-mainstream cinema are woven in the story that we get a microcosmic view of the whole generation of filmmakers that came with me."
The documentary is titled Bawra Mann, and is based on a song by the same name from Mishra's Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi.
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