‘Ekta Kapoor turns more antagonistic
‘Ekta Kapoor turns more antagonistic
Director Dibakar Banerjee returns with sequel to Love Sex Aur Dhokha after fourteen years.
According to Dibakar, after helming films like Khosla Ka Ghosla and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! the idea of a spiritual sequel was mooted by Ekta Kapoor.
He adds that Ekta Kapoor had told him Let’s go ahead with LSD 2. That’s when he realised that it had been a decade since the first film.
Adding further, he articulated that they had lived an entire lifetime in that decade, and had enough material to make a sequel. Before that, there wouldn’t have been enough life lived to make LSD 2.
In any case, he was busy with his Netflix series and then COVID happened. That’s why it took 14 years.
Dibakar admits that Ekta Kapoor is a different entity now as compared to 2010.
She has become even more
antagonistic and has realised that for content to survive in cinema, there is a need to look for maverick transformational original content for theatrical release, alongside the blockbusters. Otherwise, they may have to give themselves up to the monopoly of the OTT platforms, who are in no way to be blamed.
It’s just that monopoly of any kind is unhealthy. Ekta has evolved to the extent that she understands the fight to keep the cinemas alive, to keep collective viewing alive. She’s fighting it. Her decision to release LSD 2 in theatres is proof of her intent
Infact, Dibakar sees many changes in himself as well.
He has grown older, more accepting, isolated but more aware. He has less time to live, and so he is more aware of the preciousness of time passing by. He has become a parent and has seen how young lives grow into adulthood. He has also.seen how life unfolds and he has become balder, hopefully bolder and wiser.
His nieces speak to him more now than they did 14 years ago.
Dibakar is not perturbed by his relatively meagre output of 10 feature films in 18 years.
It has been 18 years and it’s been quite a decent record so far.
It’s been one film every two years and he wanted to push it even further but considering the kind of films he makes, two years is the required time.
In the midst of his tenure In between, with YRF and amidst COVID, when he was making films, the suppression of releases brought down the number of his films being released.
But he feels okay with his output and wants to make one film every two years and is chasing that target. But then things happen, the circumstances, the working conditions, the subjects he wants to make and the subjects that producers/OTT platforms want him to make… the difference between what he wants and what the world offers need negotiation and time.
News Edit K.V.Raman
