Feminist and filmmaker Nishtha
Jain has said that her method of documentary making focuses on bringing the
audience right into the situation that the characters face. Nishtha, the
director of the 96-min documentary “Gulabi Gang” was speaking at the third
‘Face 2 Face’ conducted as a part of the 6th IDSFFK. Her recent film
was completed over a span of four years. While making films, she realized that
the real difficulties and frustrations of people are quite different from what
we infer from newspapers. But if given
proper treatment, a documentary can portray the real experience as it is - she
said.
In reply to a question about crossing
the division by a documentary film towards a fiction film, Nishtha opined that
“it’s high time to get rid of the divisions… as long as the film is good, it
doesn’t matter that much.” To the same question, Spandan Banerjee, director of
To-Let, who also took part in the session, replied that a good documentary should
fulfill the audience in all aspects. To make it entertaining, it could use some
fictitious elements, but it should also be informative with facts.
When asked why Thomas Mathai’s
film “Alfie” is an abstract one having no strong plot, the director replied
that “we are so used with plots in movies, that we forget to appreciate the
beauty of a visual, just as it is. ‘Alfie’ has a surrealistic approach and
there is no fixed plot, making it open to different interpretations.”
Shazia Shrivastava, who directed
and co-written the film “Do Peher (One Afternoon)” with her Mother Sharifa Roy,
said that her film was inspired from her Grand Mother, who was a very peculiar
person. The idea behind their film came from imagining the situations that
might occur if a hit man showed up one afternoon at the door of her (Shazia’s)
Grand Mother’s house.
Others attended the programme
were Archana Menon (director of Virag), Rajesh Jala (23 winters), Kunal Vohra (Plastic
Cow), Tushar Digambar (Firdoz), Sunil Sharma and Mini Sharma. Mammad Montage was
the host.
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