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Director Rahul V Chittella: Manoj asked, when do you want to shoot it?
Updated On: 03 March, 2023 08:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Hiren Kotwani
Making his feature debut with Gulmohar, director Chittella says Bajpayee and Tagore came on board as soon as they read the script
Sharmila Tagore and Manoj Bajpayee in Gulmohar
In 2017, after Rahul V Chittella’s maiden short film Azaad was screened by the UNESCO, a deeply impressed Manoj Bajpayee promised to work in his debut feature film. Almost six years later, it has resulted in Gulmohar. It’s easy to gauge that the drama — starring Sharmila Tagore, Bajpayee, Simran and Suraj Sharma — isn’t your run-of-the-mill Bollywood fare. That has much to do with Chittella’s cinematic sensibilities that have been shaped by working on Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) and A Suitable Boy (2020).
Chittella has his wife to thank for the movie’s inception. The director recounts, “My wife thought that I only write about dark subjects and death. So, she challenged me to write a family film.”
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