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Kannada film director Dinesh Baboo, who is known for his projects based on real life incidents, always dons the hat of a thinking filmmaker with pride.
The nomination of his yet-to-release project, ‘Priyanka’, for the Bengaluru International Film Festival, is certain to leave Dinesh thinking about more such subjects for his future endeavours. “The film is based on a real incident that happened in the City a few years ago. But the scripting and the treatment of every character is what makes this a project to watch out for. It is a commercial film with almost all its songs being situational rather than contrived,” explains Dinesh.
The alleged murder of an IT professional in the City in 2003 did well to fuel Dinesh’s imagination but he decided to wait and probe a bit further to see if the incident could be made into a movie. “The murder of an IT professional by his wife’s alleged lover was enough raw material to build a story but I didn’t want to take the exact details and work around it. So, I began my own investigation and met the real life characters involved in the incident,” he shares. He states that the information he gathered from his interactions literally changed the course of the film.
Dinesh has also got a tagline for the film that reads, ‘Love can be dangerous too’, making it difficult to escape attention. “People always dwell on the positive aspect of love but as an emotion, love can take very drastic and sometimes, deadly forms. The hero of this film concedes that he murdered another man’s wife because he loved her. He says it is his love for her that made him take the extreme step,” Baboo explains.
This young man’s statement of confession inspired Dinesh to meet him in person. “It is only after I met him did I realise that even the calmest person can be stirred to do something unthinkable and still have no regrets about what he has done,” he adds.
The film also seeks to portray the different emotions of a woman. “Women are not as emotionally vulnerable as men. It is their mental strength that makes them face any extreme situation without fear. You also notice that very few women shudder in difficult situations,” he says, hastening to add that women are also very unpredictable when it comes to displaying their emotions. Talking about Priyanka Upendra’s character, Dinesh says she has done well to strike a balance between playing the role of a working woman and a wife. “She is just as conscious about her career as she is about her family. But her personality begins to change when another man enters her life. This is the turning point in the story,” explains Dinesh. ‘Priyanka’ will release on January 15.