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'It takes time to present truth onscreen'

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Last Updated 24 October 2012, 16:20 IST

Things around me inspire me. I observe as they are happening and they inspire me. It is a constant challenge to create stories out of them,”  says filmmaker Prakash Jha, who was recently in the City with his star cast of Chakravyuh.

With the film having releasing yesterday Metrolife brings you excerpts from an exclusive interview with Jha, the creative mind behind the film.

“Everybody has their own style. I make visuals the way I want to narrate a story. We keep trying again and again and it takes time to present the truth on screen. It doesn’t happen otherwise,” he says.

“This film is a story of two friends set against the backdrop of burning issues in our present day society. Humari apni growth ki wajah se jo vikar paida hote hain iss samaj mein yeh film un muddon ko ujagar karti hai.

Our society is caught in a whirl but how can we emerge from that whirl, is what constitutes this film,” says the director while stressing that the movie presents the issue of Naxalism from the point of view of the government, police, Naxalites and common man. “Naxalism is a by-product of politics only. This issue should be seen from every perspective.”

However, the director disturbed by the state of society feels, “sad about any situation where we have to take recou­rse to violence. But we have given a maximum share of our GDP to the top strata of our society. About 25 per cent of GDP is in the hands of top 100 families and the other extr­e­me earns below Rs 20-30 per day.

Even today there is no electricity in my village. Do you think this tolerance is going to continue?” he questions and adds, “It is very difficult to sit here and give a solution but a solution is possible. We have to work towards it. I sympath­i­se with the Naxalite movement and even with democracy, I believe we should work towa­rds restoring the latter.”

He shares that the research for this movie began after 2003 and has all kinds of characters – “black, white and grey.” But is it all real or imaginary? "Imagination does get involved. Whatever happens can be presented in a better way as a story if one adds imagination to it.” But for him it is a piece of cake to present such serious issues. “Jaan nikli rehti hai cinema aur storytelling mein and you say it is a piece of cake?!”

What is his take on corruption, a subject he is yet to explore in his films? “Roz hod lagi hui hai aur hum sab circus ki tarah dekh rahe hain. Mujhe lagta hai is desh me sab corrupt ho gay hain aur corruption ko poshan de rahe hain. Par corruption ek alag mansikta hai with which I will deal in a better way in my next film, Satyagrah.”

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(Published 24 October 2012, 16:20 IST)

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