Festival director Shekhar Kapur talks about Masoom 2 . He informed that the shooting will take place in 2025. It took him 10 years to write the script.
In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost, Kapur talks about the Masoom 2 , his grand-mother, memories of his Delhi house and most importantly OTT boom and how it helped actors like Manoj Bajpayee. Edited excerpts from the interview: Cinema is changing and what is your opinion on this with the digital platform taking over? Good content sells. Just look at 12th Fail .
It did well in theatres and it did even better on OTT. So, I feel one is not competing with the other. One is complementing the other.
OTT had brought in more directorial writing and talent than what cinema could have done in so many years. Cinema in theatres is cost heavy since it’s individually financed mostly. In OTT the cost of failure is not so high.
In films now there are all characters which play an equally important part. In the past a woman’s role was mostly ornamental. It was more about just glorifying the hero.
What do you have to say about this beautiful change? Let’s go back to the forties and fifties. There was a movie called ‘ Fearless Nadia ’. It was different.
But all the regular cinema showed women waiting for their husbands to come home and if he was having an affair, the woman would beg him to come back home. Then suddenly came this ‘ Fearless Nadia ’ and Hunterwali and not just with the educated classes, but the mass audiences lov.