This Bollywood actress is reviving one of India's most notorious criminals in a new series. Brut India spoke to Tannishtha Chatterjee at the Festival de Cannes.
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00:00Hi, this is Tanishta Chatterjee in the 72nd Cannes Film Festival for Brute.
00:05I think the colour that the role actually offers is really, really manifolds and fantastic.
00:36The world was a far simpler place.
00:56The world was a far simpler place.
01:01Far simpler place.
01:05Far simpler place.
01:26I'm excited as well as nervous at the same time.
01:29Excited because as an actor I think the colour that the role actually offers is really, really manifolds and fantastic.
01:37Nervous because Bandit Queen, Shekhar Kapoor's and Wabi Bedi's Bandit Queen was such a benchmark and Seema ji did such a wonderful job.
01:51The comparison will always be there and that makes me nervous sometimes.
01:54But the positive thing is that because this is a long format storytelling, it would be addressed and aesthetically quite different from how the film probably was.
02:06Unfortunately I can't meet Poonam Devi anymore but there are lots of stuff, lots of documentaries, interviews, newspaper articles, lot of stuff that's there and of course language would be another thing that I have to work on.
02:24I just feel that we have to slowly stop saying that women filmmakers and male filmmakers and we're just filmmakers and actors and artists who are trying to express ourselves.
02:55And I think the gender always has a different perspective of the world so the world view changes.
03:02So yes it's difficult because a lot of times the decision makers of who greenlits your projects come from patriarchal perspective.
03:12And so when you have a different perspective or a different world view, it's tough to get greenlit.
03:21But I think slowly it's changing. Last year there were two films in official selection in Cannes and both of them were by women filmmakers.
03:29We're saying that but I hope soon we are able to just not say male and women filmmakers, it's just filmmakers.
03:37It's called Rome, Rome, Me. I've written and directed it. It's in the final stages of post-production.
03:43It has Nawazuddin Siddiqui and me in the main roles and then there are a bunch of very, very good Italian actors, Valentina Cotti, Urbano Barberini, they are all very, very well known Italian actors.
03:58It's my directorial debut. I really enjoyed working with my team. I have a lot of strong women in the team. It's a very woman driven team.