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Killer Soup director Abhishek Chaubey: Climate inconducive for some films
Updated On: 12 January, 2024 10:04 PM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma
Even as he is enjoying his first brush with web series, Killer Soup director Chaubey eager to return to big screen with his brand of cinema
A still from the film
In an Abhishek Chaubey offering, you can be assured of two things—devious characters, and a moody, almost earthy setting. The director found both elements when writers Unaiza Merchant, Harshad Nalawade and Anant Tripathi pitched Killer Soup to him, only months after Sonchiriya’s (2019) release. It was the perfect start, thought the director who was hungry to explore long-form storytelling. “These three bright writers had also penned a bit of the first episode. The show’s mood is what I immediately fell in love with. I felt I had the skill to blend the different tones into one narrative,” Chaubey recalls.
Expanding the crime comedy over eight hours initially felt daunting. But the story of the Manoj Bajpayee and Konkona Sensharma-starrer lured him on. Chaubey relished the shifting power dynamics between the lead characters as he told the story of a shrewd wife who plans to kill her husband and put her lookalike lover as the stand-in. “It took us two years to write. Shows like this should be enjoyed as a piece of music. I don’t want to explain to the audience, or preach. [I want to] show how power operates within the confines of a family. We mostly talk about power in terms of political or social settings, but not in terms of a family. In this show, you see how lust for power defeats love, and when the power balance shifts, it’s always ugly. Here, women are coming into power, and it’s going to be bad because [these characters] aren’t exactly the nicest people. After all, nice people don’t get power.”
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