MUMBAI: In an IANS exclusive interview with ‘Ground Zero’ director Tejas Vijay Deoskar shared his approach to storytelling. He explained that his film choices aren’t driven by genre or theme but by the strength of the story itself. “Whether it's Chhatriwali, which addressed a socially sensitive topic, or Ground Zero, rooted in patriotism — I don’t make conscious genre-based decisions,”
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00:00basically i want to have as much variety as possible in stories that i want to tell the
00:10people and not that i have actually thought about it that i want to have a particular subject like
00:16chatriwali which was a taboo topic or this one as a patriotic thing i usually select a story on
00:22the face of it if the story comes to me and if it is interesting i just grab it and that's the way i
00:30look at the films i don't look at it from the genre perspective yeah the way the stories are most they
00:38should be interesting enough to be told uh see mainly i have done hindi and marathi so being a
00:44marathi i understand the kind of audiences that we have in marathi speaking society especially in
00:51and we have a certain type of understanding we have a certain type of culture so when we are when
00:57i'm doing a marathi film i usually try and make something which is connected to the to the soil
01:03of the marathi audience marathi state and when we when we talk about hindi subjects we also need to
01:11understand that pan india we have a diverse culture we have many languages many cultures but there is
01:17something which is common and which is the which is the fact that we all belong to one nation bharat
01:22so that way i have to i keep keep that in in mind and try to talk about subjects which are common
01:31which have some common points for everybody so usually that is the difference also the scale that
01:38we talk about that also is a different in both in marathi and hindi so i think you have to just adapt to
01:45the situation and make a film accordingly
01:50okay based on it that i am in every way in marathi i feel as i feel like in
02:10but Telugu's budget and scale is quite big.
02:14In Marathi, you have a lot of limitations,
02:17but this is why I will say that filmmakers are quite smart when filmmaking is done,
02:21and the treatment of the way you find the way you can tell.
02:27Ultimately, the budget or the way you find one effect is,
02:35how effectively you can tell people.
02:39If it is effective, your film will be good.
02:49I think that was the need of the hour.
02:51Today, we are in a world where information is available on your fingertips.
02:55Anybody, any child is accessing internet very easily.
03:01Sometimes you don't even know what exactly that child is watching.
03:04So, it's always better to give a correct information at a correct age,
03:09and there is no harm in talking about matters which are extremely important for everybody.
03:15So, I think Chhatriwali was based on that thought that the entire family should sit together and talk about certain things which we thought as taboos, but they are not.
03:27They are very essential matters of our life.
03:35It was a delight because when you are actually working in your mother tongue,
03:40I think you are the most comfortable and with such a big actor, such a celebrated actor, you also have different energy.
03:52You feel elated, you feel happy about it.
03:54And also the kind of actor she is, the person she is.
03:58She is a very fine actress.
04:00She is also a director's actor.
04:02So, I never had a problem communicating with her,
04:06reaching out to her, sharing my ideas and getting the work done as a director.
04:11So, I think it was wonderful to work with Maduriji.
04:14See, whenever you have a subject like this, the actor needs to go through certain level of training.
04:25So, definitely Imran and other actors also went through that training.
04:29BSF helped us a lot in that.
04:31So, they trained the actor for 3-4 days.
04:34They told them how to hold the gun, what is the stance, what is the code of conduct, how to salute and all that stuff.
04:41So, as an actor, he had to sort of understand a BSF soldier's life from the point of view of doing the duty.
04:52So, definitely that went in.
04:54But more than that, he also tried to understand the psyche of the character.
04:59So, we talked about it a lot and Dubeji, whose character he is playing in the film.
05:05He was also instrumental in giving us more details of the character.
05:09So, I could actually take the details from Dubeji and give it to Imran.
05:14We had a lot of discussion about portraying certain elements of the film, certain parts of the character.
05:20So, that way he prepped himself and he got into the shoes of Dubeji and eventually he carried it on his own.
05:27So, he understood the character but he did not imitate.
05:30He is not a mimicry artist.
05:32He is an artist who actually blended the real life character into his own and he carried it with him.
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