Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar on Wednesday was in a dialog with Taran Adarsh throughout the Masterclass section on the ongoing 54th Worldwide Movie Competition of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa. He talked about how Tamannaah Bhatia hasn’t received her due within the movie business and the way his group was apprehensive about casting Prateik Babbar within the function of a migrant employee in his movie India Lockdown.
Speaking about Tamannaah, Madhur mentioned that she is a really gifted actress and completely good trying however she has not received her due. She has labored within the south movie business for a very long time and he feels pleased for her that his movie Babli Bouncer has modified her graph.
Speaking about Prateik, the filmmaker revealed that his writing group weren’t too eager about casting the actor as a result of he had tattoos throughout his physique and for a movie, he had carried out all his hair blue when he was known as in his workplace. He mentioned that Prateik was trying like a punk however he had a sure conviction in him.
When Madhur narrated the movie to Prateik, he requested the filmmaker, “Are you calling me for this function? Do you assume I will do it?” And Madhur mentioned, “Sure, I believe you are able to do it.” The filmmaker then requested his make-up artist to alter Prateik’s look utterly and make him appear like a migrant employee. He additionally advised Prateik to attract his inspiration from his late mom Smita Patil and father Raj Babbar by watching their performances of their movies.

Through the dialog, Madhur additionally talked about how he made his 2005 movie Web page 3 with a price range of solely Rs 2.5 crore. Since he could not forged huge stars in his movie, he determined to method Konkona Sen Sharma for the lead function.

Although Madhur was in two ideas whether or not Konkona will do the movie or not, the actress had a whole conviction in him. She advised him that he’s an excellent filmmaker and is aware of that he can do justice to it since she had already seen his movies Satta and Chandni Bar and she or he all the time needed to work with him.

The film went on to bag a number of accolades together with three Nationwide Movie Awards, together with the Golden Lotus Award for Greatest Movie, Silver Lotus Award for Greatest Screenplay and Silver Lotus Award for Greatest Modifying. Konkona was additionally bestowed with the title of Greatest Feminine Debut at Zee Cine Awards and it additionally earned Madhur a nomination for Greatest Director at Filmfare Awards.