Nitesh Tiwari on Ramayan: It is a fabulous human story on relationships

The 2016 Aamir Khanstarrer blockbuster Dangal will stay in the hearts of many for its entertainment value The film broke various records one of them being crossing the Rs 2000crore mark at the global boxoffice a feat that is not easily achieved by Bollywood The films director Nitesh Tiwari returns with his next directorial Chhichhore soon However he isnt feeling the boxoffice pressureAs far as the boxoffice is concerned we didnt know Dangal would become such a huge success We made Dangal purely for the love of the story We felt that the story needed to be told We never kept the boxoffice result in mind so there was never pressure when we made Dangal Tiwari told IANSHowever after the success of Dangal the only pressure I would take would not be the boxoffice pressure That would be unreal to have to take that pressure You cant say My film is going to perform so much at the boxoffice The only pressure and it is only human for me to feel that way is I want to live up to the expectations of people Whatever expectations they may have of me after Dangal I hope I will be successful in exceeding their expectationsAfter narrating the inspiring story of a wrestler in Dangal Tiwari is set to take the audience back to his college days in Chhichhore Unlike Dangal which had superstar Aamir his new film has a young cast including Sushant Singh Rajput Varun Sharma Tushar Pandey Prateik Babbar and Shraddha KapoorOn finalising the cast he said All of them needed to be great performers It was something that was a given The way I write most of my stories there is a lot of scope for interesting performances I was looking for people in a specific age category so that if I cut down a few years from them they would look like collegegoing kids and if I add a few years they would look like middleaged people effortlessly Thats why I kind of migrated towards actors who are in their early 30sIt is a college buddy film and the director has extracted a lot of stuff from his IIT days Does it also deal with bullyingIt touches upon various aspects of college life and hostel life in a positive manner Its all what I lived We were made to feel extremely comfortable when we were juniors at IIT Bombay he said of his time in the prestigious engineering institute where he even got to shoot a portion of the filmI consider myself fortunate to have got the chance to shoot inside IIT I got to shoot where the germ of the idea originated But mostly I shot all over Mumbai said Tiwari a fan of shooting at real locations That sadly wont be possible for his next bigbudget filmTiwari and Ravi Udyawar ndash who directed Mom ndash are set to helm a 3D version of the Ramayan With an estimated budget of Rs 500 crore this will be a liveaction trilogy in Hindi Tamil and Telugu The location doesnt exist so I cant shoot in a real location Ill have to create that he said with a smileThe project is unlike any of his past films in terms of genre or budget Physically it will be very different but emotionally it follows the same pattern that I follow ndash my films are all great human stories And Ramayan is a fabulous human story on relationships said the Chillar Party directorWhy Ramayan a story that has been repeatedly told especially on the small screen I think we dont really remember too much of the Ramayan What happened back then on TV was fine Time has passed many people only know Ramayan at a surface level If you dig deeper it is far more beautiful than what it seems on the surface People need to know the essence of Ramayan said TiwariCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates