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‘I’m running to keep up with the audience’
Updated On: 10 September, 2023 10:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Sucheta Chakraborty
Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh speaks of adaptations, choosing too-pretty-to-leave Kalimpong as location and keeping up with audience tastes in the build-up to his Kareena Kapoor-starrer Jaane Jaan
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Sujoy Ghosh says the Japanese novel that the film is based on was one he identified with when a screenwriter friend had gifted it to him. Pic/Getty Images
It was a doomed love story and I loved it because the only other love story I could think of in comparison was King Kong,” filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh tells us about his upcoming Netflix film Jaane Jaan, which is based on the 2005 Japanese novel The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. It’s a book brought to him years ago by friend and screenwriter Kanika Dhillon. He recalls being drawn to it instantly. “You don’t know whether it’s a good story or a bad story, but it’s a story you have identified with,” he explains. “It really got to me because I saw characters in that book who were big [and] honourable. It was something I was not used to. In Japanese culture, honour is a very big thing and [people are] big hearted. I wish I was like Naren [Jaideep Ahlawat’s character]. I wish I had that kind of honour instilled in me, the values, beliefs and morals that he has.”
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