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Updated On: 15 May, 2022 08:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
A former law minister as father and an SC advocate for brother make Shefali Bhushan the perfect candidate to take on the mantle of writer-director for a series on crime and legalese in India
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Shefali Bhushan and Jayant Digambar Somalkar have written and directed Guilty Minds. Pic/Sameer Markande
My father was animated in the courtroom, fond of cracking jokes and proving his point in a boisterous way,” says director and writer Shefali Bhushan, daughter to one of India’s most prominent legal minds. senior Supreme Court advocate and former law minister, Shanti Bhushan. Her husband Jayant Digambar Somalkar laughs when he recounts the time he witnessed Bhushan charge towards the judge in court. “Humour is a big part of the show, as it is of life, and we have picked up some jokes verbatim as they were cracked by Shefali’s dad,” he tells us in a joint interview.
The Delhi-based couple is behind the recent Amazon Prime release, Guilty Minds, starring Shriya Pilgaonkar and Varun Mitra. Mitra is the good natured, endearing lawyer, who doesn’t spend too much time thinking about who is guilty or not; Pilgaonkar plays the firebrand, idealist lawyer standing up for the “truth”. Written and directed by the duo, the series sees the actors play lawyers, and while their career and life form the backdrop of the show, each episode deals with a different case. Research and nuances came easily to Bhushan, who comes from a family of lawyers, which includes her brother, Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. And yet, she admits she was nervous before a special screening organised for a group of prominent lawyers from the capital. “They enjoyed most of it, but did point out a few things we got wrong, and we made notes. Interestingly, about the second episode, which sees a young boy commit a murder after he is inspired and obsessed with a video game, my father said he would have let him go scot free,” she shares.
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