While The Lunchbox was a global success, Photograph is looking at a wide international release following a warm reception at international festivals.
I feel like if I can do something well, then I can try my best to make it happen.” But no, I don’t have an agenda that I want to make X number of movies in India. “I grew up here, I know the place, or at least how it used to be. Was it always part of the plan to make another film in Mumbai? “All these characters could only be from Bombay,” Batra said. Rafi’s first encounter with Miloni is framed against Mumbai’s landmark, the Gateway of India. The industriousness of the city’s working class, meanwhile, is embodied by Siddiqui’s Rafi in Photograph. The Lunchbox, a romance that unfolds through letters exchanged in containers of home-cooked food, would not have been possible without the city’s dabbawalla network. The “home” Batra refers to is Mumbai, where he was born and raised, and which has been inspired both The Lunchbox and Photograph.
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“I wrote Photograph because I was really eager to come back to my own writing – direct something that I wrote – and I thought to come back home and make a movie was a good way to do that,” he said. The Sense of An Ending(2013) is based on Julian Barnes’s acclaimed 2011 novel, while Netflix’s Our Souls At Night, starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, is an adaptation of Kent Haruf’s book of the same name.īatra wanted to follow the films up with a story of his own. Photograph marks Batra’s return to India after two English-language projects.
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She had just suffered an accident, she had broken her hip, but she still agreed to be in the movie and we were lucky to have her.”Ĭo-produced by Batra’s Poetic License and Amazon Studios, Photograph also stars Sachin Khedekar, Geetanjali Kulkarni and Jim Sarbh. “We needed that familiarity because that shows on screen. “I had seen her in Umrao Jaan (1981) and Peepli Live and Nawaz knows her and has worked with her,” Batra said.
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Siddiqui’s grandmother is played by the octogenarian Farrukh Jaffar, whose credits include Swades (2004), Sultan(2016) and Secret Superstar(2017). “I was really lucky to find them because they both brought something to it that elevated it,” Batra said. While Batra had Siddiqui in mind for Rafi’s role right from the start (the two had worked together in The Lunchbox), Malhotra, who made her acting debut in 2016 with Dangal, came in through auditions. The movie is about the corners of our heart that we don’t know exist unless somebody else leads us to them.” “So I was really curious about who these two people are – not just where they’re from and what they do, but who they are from inside. “I thought, what if there’s a way to make a movie like that, about a rich girl and a poor guy, but it was believable, it was true and it was organic, and you would believe that these two people would spent time together, actually spend time together,” Batra explained. Batra was also looking to reinterpret the great cliche of the romance between lovers from different classes that was a staple of Hindi films in the 1980s and ’90s, he told Scroll.in. They come close when Miloni agrees to pose as Rafi’s fiance so that his grandmother can stop pressuring him to get married.īatra fuses the time-tested idea of a pretend romance with themes of class inequalities and religious harmony in the film, which will be released in India on March 15 after screenings at the Sundance and Berlin festivals. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra, the movie follows the friendship between Rafi, a photographer, and the more privileged Miloni, a student. Six years after his international hit The Lunchbox(2013), Ritesh Batra turns his lens once again on two strangers whose dreams crisscross in Mumbai in Photograph.
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