Director Sanjay Gupta: ‘You cannot have fearless storytelling anymore’

Updated On: 23 October, 2024 12:28 PM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

While he gears up for The Miranda Brothers’ release, director Sanjay Gupta discusses setting the next Shootout edition outside Mumbai amid the ‘collapse of law and order’ in country

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Harshvardhan Rane (left) and Meezaan Jafri (right) front The Miranda Brothers

There has been much talk about the entertainment industry making room for stories over stars. But the on-ground reality is different, says Sanjay Gupta. The filmmaker learnt it the hard way as he set out to make The Miranda Brothers, starring Harshvardhan Rane and Meezaan Jafri. “To pull off such a film isn’t easy. I started my digital wing because we cannot ignore OTT,” he states. The casting for the football drama, set to première on JioCinema, had to be simple. The director needed two actors well-versed in the sport. “I wanted to make the film immediately. If I were to go to Varun [Dhawan] or Sidharth [Malhotra], I would have to wait for a year. None of the stars at that time were willing to do a direct-to-OTT film. Even now, most of them are not. As I shot this movie in Goa, I learnt that I’m not dependent on a crew of 300. You can be a big-ticket director and yet make a movie that you feel for. Every film doesn’t have to be with mega stars.”

Sanjay Gupta