aydeep Sarkar, who’s been an advert filmmaker and quick movie director, is ready to make his debut with a full fledged function movie and a web-show (Rainbow Rishta). In a fast chat with ETimes, he talks about his journey, his expertise in varied codecs of film-making, the style he enjoys probably the most, and extra…
From quick movies to tv exhibits and web-series – how do you have a look at your inventive journey?
I actually just like the pursuit of storytelling, and I am glad that I’m able to stroll between all these three worlds.For starters, a present like Rainbow Rishta provides you a very immersive expertise as a filmmaker, the place you’ll be able to enter and expertise a fantasy world that you simply in any other case wouldn’t. However, what promoting provides you is the enjoyment of having the ability to inform a narrative with sharper ideas and having the ability to talk loads in 30 seconds. So, your work needs to be layered, and it has to form of be on the forefront of your craft as effectively. And quick movies, I’ve made solely two. And each, in ‘Nayantara’s Necklace’ and ‘Ishq Mastana’, I acquired to discover themes that you simply most likely can not do in longer codecs or in promoting. So thematically, the sort of joys that you simply get briefly movies may be very, very attention-grabbing. And it is nice to have the ability to traverse all these totally different worlds.
You’ve got made a brief movie with Konkona Sen Sharma which acquired accolades on the New York Movie Pageant. As a filmmaker how assured does that make you?
I believe I used to be fortunate that in Nayantara’s Necklace, I had Tillotama Shome and Konkona Sen Sharma, each pricey associates of mine. And for each of them, the script actually resonated. They’re additionally associates in actual life. It is a movie about feminine friendship and one witnessed a good looking bonding between these women. So, that’s one thing that was very attention-grabbing for me as a filmmaker. And naturally, they’re on the high of their craft. There’s additionally Gulshan Devaiah within the movie, who’s simply sensible, so the way in which the chemistry between these three actors developed was nice.
Konkona can also be a superb director, how a lot does that assist? Has there been any studying?
Konkona is a superb actor and storyteller. Collaborating along with her is all the time enjoyable as a result of she’s extraordinarily candid, trustworthy and genuine along with her way of living, tales and conditions, and it all the time makes issues richer. Despite the fact that we’re childhood associates, we each have very outlined methods of trying on the world. This leads to nice synergy and an awesome synthesis that solely makes the work richer.
Inform us about your expertise in your present Rainbow Rishta…
It has been a very fruitful expertise, and discovering the tales on the edit desk made many issues attention-grabbing for us. For instance Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju’s story has turned out precisely how we wished it, and the final shot that we finish Trinetra’s story with, is definitely the primary scene we ever shot on the present.
What are your aspirations as a filmmaker by way of the sort of tales you want to inform and the wish-list of actors you wish to work with?
I wish to work with every kind of actors, actually. And I wish to work with actors who’re in love with the craft and produce constructive synergy on the set. By way of narratives, we live in instances when gore, rage, aggression is being celebrated however I’ve grown up on the movies of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and these wonderful Hollywood comedies. So, I actually hope we are able to veer in the direction of happiness and extra life affirming narratives. As an illustration, once I noticed ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ as effectively, it is such a life affirming, wonderful, stunning movie about not simply the elephants, however the couple who find yourself getting married.
Inform us about your upcoming tasks.
I like the facility of comedy and suppose it comes from a really actual place. Furthermore, it will possibly convey the darkest of ideas with out being preachy. So, subsequent up, I’m engaged on a present and film, each comedies. It has been such a joyful expertise and I’m actually having fun with myself.
From quick movies to tv exhibits and web-series – how do you have a look at your inventive journey?
I actually just like the pursuit of storytelling, and I am glad that I’m able to stroll between all these three worlds.For starters, a present like Rainbow Rishta provides you a very immersive expertise as a filmmaker, the place you’ll be able to enter and expertise a fantasy world that you simply in any other case wouldn’t. However, what promoting provides you is the enjoyment of having the ability to inform a narrative with sharper ideas and having the ability to talk loads in 30 seconds. So, your work needs to be layered, and it has to form of be on the forefront of your craft as effectively. And quick movies, I’ve made solely two. And each, in ‘Nayantara’s Necklace’ and ‘Ishq Mastana’, I acquired to discover themes that you simply most likely can not do in longer codecs or in promoting. So thematically, the sort of joys that you simply get briefly movies may be very, very attention-grabbing. And it is nice to have the ability to traverse all these totally different worlds.
You’ve got made a brief movie with Konkona Sen Sharma which acquired accolades on the New York Movie Pageant. As a filmmaker how assured does that make you?
I believe I used to be fortunate that in Nayantara’s Necklace, I had Tillotama Shome and Konkona Sen Sharma, each pricey associates of mine. And for each of them, the script actually resonated. They’re additionally associates in actual life. It is a movie about feminine friendship and one witnessed a good looking bonding between these women. So, that’s one thing that was very attention-grabbing for me as a filmmaker. And naturally, they’re on the high of their craft. There’s additionally Gulshan Devaiah within the movie, who’s simply sensible, so the way in which the chemistry between these three actors developed was nice.
Konkona can also be a superb director, how a lot does that assist? Has there been any studying?
Konkona is a superb actor and storyteller. Collaborating along with her is all the time enjoyable as a result of she’s extraordinarily candid, trustworthy and genuine along with her way of living, tales and conditions, and it all the time makes issues richer. Despite the fact that we’re childhood associates, we each have very outlined methods of trying on the world. This leads to nice synergy and an awesome synthesis that solely makes the work richer.
Inform us about your expertise in your present Rainbow Rishta…
It has been a very fruitful expertise, and discovering the tales on the edit desk made many issues attention-grabbing for us. For instance Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju’s story has turned out precisely how we wished it, and the final shot that we finish Trinetra’s story with, is definitely the primary scene we ever shot on the present.
What are your aspirations as a filmmaker by way of the sort of tales you want to inform and the wish-list of actors you wish to work with?
I wish to work with every kind of actors, actually. And I wish to work with actors who’re in love with the craft and produce constructive synergy on the set. By way of narratives, we live in instances when gore, rage, aggression is being celebrated however I’ve grown up on the movies of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and these wonderful Hollywood comedies. So, I actually hope we are able to veer in the direction of happiness and extra life affirming narratives. As an illustration, once I noticed ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ as effectively, it is such a life affirming, wonderful, stunning movie about not simply the elephants, however the couple who find yourself getting married.
Inform us about your upcoming tasks.
I like the facility of comedy and suppose it comes from a really actual place. Furthermore, it will possibly convey the darkest of ideas with out being preachy. So, subsequent up, I’m engaged on a present and film, each comedies. It has been such a joyful expertise and I’m actually having fun with myself.
