Sudhir Mishra is one filmmaker who has given us beautiful cults like Dharavi and Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. Every film of his shows us what actual life is all about. It¡¯s not a bed of roses, there will be no hero and you have to learn and understand your responsibility because hey, life is not easy.
Sudhir Mishra had the most candid conversation with Indiatimes recently. He may come across as a very intimidating person, but he is totally opposite of his image and is a hardcore animal lover.
While talking to us he revealed why he likes to show life as it is, in his films, ¡°I think my films take life as it is and the nuances of it. It accepts the good and bad of everyone, life is not always happy, it¡¯s tough. I have tried to be faithful to what I had experienced in life through my films. I like people who are dissenters, who don't accept the life that is given to them, people who change things for themselves, like Dharavi (1992) for instance, was a story about a guy who was a taxi driver and had a dream to have a factory, he wanted to do things, didn't accept the screenplay of the life or in Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005) where three people who are dreaming in different ways and make an attempt to remake their life. Those people and subject attract me a lot.¡±
Sudhir Mishra has failed a lot of times in life, how does he bounce back? He said, ¡°I have made peace with failure, as a creative man you fail every day, you think of an idea and generally one hour later you say what crap. So you have to make peace and live with failure. Take failure as fun, if you start getting defeated by the failure then you will constantly get depressed. Failure is nice at times because sometimes it teaches you many lessons and you realize that you deserved to fail.¡±
He reveals what keeps him motivated to make films despite failures, ¡°The fun of cinema and people in this medium are both brilliant, it kept me moving, the actors, writers, camera department it's an amazing world to create something out of nothing. To create a film out of an idea is still magic to me. I still find filmmaking fascinating.¡±
Sudhir also admitted that he needs another life to make films and can never think of giving up, ¡°I want another lifetime; filmmaking process is damn exciting to me.¡±
¡°I find typical sugary and diabetic films fake. I think popular culture is responsible for a lot of unhappiness in people because it gives you a very fake and wrong idea about life and that is - it's easy, that love is forever, that there will not be any problem.¡±
"I think love is difficult but it's exciting and it may fail but what the hell, take a risk. I hope I don't make films which I call scam films, ¡®ki ek din koi aayega woh Sab thik Kar dega¡¯(Someone will come one day and fix everything), the idea of a hero who will come to save is a very big scam, stops people from taking responsibility for themselves¡±.
Sudhir wants audiences to be more responsible while watching films, ¡°Audiences should give themselves more respect where they feel to sit up and concentrate while watching a film and not leave their mind behind because if you get into a habit of leaving your mind behind you can't take decision.¡±
Sudhir Mishra is all set to come out with his next film called Dasdev. It's going to be a full-blown political drama starring? Richa Chadha, Rahul Bhatt and Aditi Rao Hydari in lead roles.