Wednesday 18 September 2013

Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 194



Talking Cinema ii


18.9.2013, Mumbai  

As audiences, we have over the years watched our favorite actors transform into diverse characters and wondered how they inhabit roles so contradictory to their persona. We have wondered how these portrayals affect the actors’ psyche and how they endure the suffering for so many years. Is it all as painless as it seems or do the characters affect the artist’s personal lives? What are the creative and the disconnecting process and does such a process exist?

Talking Cinema attempts to capture these magical moments as actors shed inhibitions and discuss their anxieties as performers. It draws directors to confess their conflicts and vulnerabilities while making a film. The book is a testimony of their passion for cinema and more important, their obsession with their craft.

In the centenary year of cinema it the right time for me to recapture milestone moments with actors and filmmakers I have interacted with for over 30 years. I choose artistes who were then at cross roads of their careers.

Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit, after ruling as a romantic pair in the 90s were traveling different landscapes...Kapoor as the angry politician in Naayak and Madhuri as Chandramukhi in Devdas.

Kamal Haasan was weighed down when he turned director with Hey Ram, Waheeda Rehman was anxious when she returned after a long break in Om Jai Jagdish.  Rani Mukherjee was at a turning point as an actor post Saathiyaan and Abhishek Bachchan was elated when he broke jinx with Dhoom.
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