Filmmaker Amole Gupte, known for films such as Stanley Ka Dabba, Hawaa Hawaai, and Sniff, says mainstream producers are now reluctant to back sensible stories and that’s one of the reasons why he is not able to make films for the big screen.
But here, they’ve their parents… “In 2015, Saina became world number one in February. And I said I want to make a film on her in May 2015. Finally, it was made and released in 2021.
“In the west, the kids go to work so that they can pay their college or tuition fees.
I did nothing else in that period,” he said. So, it is all about financial independence and the idea is to make the youth aware about it,” he said, adding the team is toying with the idea of releasing all three films on an OTT platform.
The director recalled the time when filmmaker Karan Johar helped him find a producer for his 2011 acclaimed movie, Stanley Ka Dabba, which was screened at the ongoing Jagran Film Festival. Because i’ve promised Deepa (wife), I am coming to launch the music’, he came unshaven and undyed and said, ‘I’ve to come straight from the airport,. So that I could make the next and then the next.
“The fact that they are not knocking on my door is an indication that they are not willing to back my vision. That’s good enough (reason) for me to stay away. Life is okay. “It has always been difficult. It’s not like a red carpet for me. “Karan came for the music launch of Stanley Ka Dabba. These are the people who kind of held my hand at that time.
The director, who has also acted in movies such as Kaminey, Phas Gaye Re Obama, Singham Returns, said it has never been easy for him to make his kind of films. I don’t fit into Bollywood, and it’s better I’m away from it,” Gupte told PTI in an interview when asked about why he makes fewer movies. It has never been,” he said. Otherwise, it’s difficult,” Gupte said.
