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Abuzz with WHITE NOISE
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Rahul Bose is a man of many parts. "White Noise", due to release shortly, is just one of his many projects, finds ANJANA RAJAN.
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RAHUL BOSE has certainly come a long way since the days he appeared four days a week in India's first English language television serial, A Mouthful of Sky, on Doordarshan. He tends to writhe in agony at the mention of this venture, and one can't blame him. Some viewers did wonder at the time, why, when so many Indians speak English to each other in real life, sounding quite normal, the characters in A Mouthful found it all such a mouthful. And its strong aftertaste seems to have ensured that not another English tele-serial made its presence felt on the small screen since, even with the cable era ensuring a proliferation of endless channels.
Never mind. However much he had to set his teeth to abide by the contract binding him to the tele-soap, it certainly helped Rahul Bose, as well as the likes of model Milind Soman and Nisha Singh, to get a foothold in the spotlight.
And once he parachuted relatively unscathed out of the Sky, Rahul Bose too never graced the small screen again till date. But he certainly didn't give up on acting in English. Just switched to the big screen. Sailing into celluloid success with the critically acclaimed English August, he went on to the popular Everybody Says I'm Fine, which he also directed, besides a number of Hindi films. Now, with Vinta Nanda's directorial debut White Noise, in which he plays a film editor opposite Koel Purie, due to hit the theatres soon, there is more than static in the air.
For Vinta Nanda, a television producer and director of documentaries, this is a first feature in English, also featuring Aryan Vaid and Jatin Siyal in the role of a married man with a glad eye and the head of a production house respectively.
Scathing commentary
White Noise incidentally, is a technical term for sounds of thousands of frequencies combining, like different coloured light combines into white light. White noise is used to wipe out disturbances. With Rahul describing it as a film about two people working on a soap opera and "a scathing commentary" on the saas-bahu themes, one is reminded how different each of the films he is associated with turn out to be. Also in the air is The Whisperer, a "psychological thriller" directed by Rajiv Virani for which Rahul has written the screenplay. The mix of films is only reflective of his personality, a man who believes in maximising his time and not wasting energy on frivolous pastimes. Mentoring disadvantaged youngsters, writing and lecturing on topics close to his heart are only some of them. He comes from what he describes as a "fairly uncomplicated upper middle class family" that does not interfere with his work, and doesn't make a fuss about it either. It's a family that supports him, but doesn't make a lot of noise about it, he remarks, since it is taken for granted in his home that you do what you have to do with sincerity.
"The only compulsory quality we had to have was to enjoy what you were doing and hold compassion in your heart," he recounts. "It's very difficult to stop and respect everyone and have compassion in your heart, but it's my ambition to make compassion cool, and secularism too," he declares. Now that's something worth making a noise about.
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