India’s
first POV film (a film where the camera is rigged to see everyone and everyone
is seen talking to the camera) Rakkhosh, was screened to a thundering ovation
at the Pune International Film Festival over the weekend after which famed
journalist Sameer Nakhate interviewed Team Rakkhosh, consisting of producer Sayali
Deshpande, Creative Producer Prashen Kyawal, writer and director Srinivinay
Salian, film strategist S. Ramachandran and actors Barun Chandra, Sonamoni
Jayant and Atul Mahale.
“When
I heard the script, I knew I wanted the world to hear this story. So I decided
to bankroll is,” says Sayali. Srivinay Salian who was then supposed to be just
the writer for the film, got a narration of this story called Patient No 302, by Narayan Dharap, and was asked to write it.
“I didn’t want to read the story and I said that I would write it first and if
they didn’t like it, I would then read the book and then modify my script.
Thankfully, they liked the story,” says Salian.
Rakkhosh
produced by Santosh and Sayali Deshpande also Sanjay Mishra, Priyanka Bose,
Tannishtha Chatterjee among others,
Creative
Producer Prashen Kyawal says that the uniqueness of the film also got him
hooked. “I liked the idea of the camera being the hero of the film. Normally
actors are trained to look away from the cameras when saying their dialogues.
But then this film needed the actors to look into the camera while saying their
lines,” says Kyawal.
Barun
Chanda who has worked in over 50
films including Seemabaddha directed by Satyajit Ray says, “I was given the
script and as I read it, I could not put it down. It was a tough script, but I
wanted to read it. I am sure, no one has ever made this kind of a film ever in
India before,” says Chanda who essays the role of Dr Idris in the film.
Actor
Sonomoni has a unique distinction. All the films she has worked in have bagged
national awards. Be it films like Traffic Signal, Bose, Chillar Party,
Shamitabh, Mukhabinay and Ventilator among others have gone to win national
awards. “When I was narrated the script, the director knew the character very
well and he exactly narrated what he wanted from the actor. And that was the
reason why I did the film and it was a very unique project in itself,” says
Sonomoni who plays a nurse in the film.
Actor
Atul Mahale from Nagpur who has an important role in the film also talked about
the challenges one has while doing a film in mental asylum. “If you see the
film there are 150 people in the asylum,
but each of them has a different character brief,” says Mahale.
Asked
how he would describe the film, S Ramachandran says, "It is a film which
tells you that there is an insane in every 'insaan'!'"
The
film has been edited by Filmfare award winning editor Dinesh Poojari.
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