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Bollywood may specialise in sleaze, but director Mohit Suri has undertaken to wage war on pornography
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Photo: V. Sudershan
THE SURI SIBLINGS Director Mohit Suri with sister Smylie Suri
`Bigger ideas are more important than multicast big budget movies, and working with new people with fresh innovative ideas gives wholesome satisfaction rather than putting up with the petulance of big names,' says Mohit Suri, director of Kalyug. The man who made his directorial debut with Zeher, another film from the Bhatt camp, says he hates to do regimented routine work and loves to work on assignments that constantly throw up new problems demanding creativity and challenge. And pornography is the subject of his latest film.
Kalyug was inspired by Delhi's infamous MMS scandal. "The film is about a one-man war against the bizarre world of pornography. These heinous cyber crimes are a matter of fun for someone to watch but what about the victim? What about the pain the victim undergoes? Kalyug is a realistic film based on the current burning issue of pornography," explains Suri, dressed smartly in a denim outfit.
On Deepal Shaw's role
Asked about Deepal Shaw as a choice for the role of the vamp who plays an Indian porn star and anchors the whole thing, he puts in, "When I saw Deepal's music video, Baby Doll, honestly that didn't interest me in a big way, but once I saw her on a TV talk show arguing tooth and nail, proving her point in front of a hostile audience, who were gunning at her and blaming her for degradation of our culture. But she firmly debated and successfully defended herself. We were looking for someone like her for this role, so she came as a natural choice."
The melodious songs of Kalyug are already making waves. "My personal favourite is Aadat by Aatif Aslam which has been remixed by deejay Suketu, but Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaye by the inimitable Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is still catching on among the listeners," comments Suri who idealises and admires the films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
He has assisted Vikram Bhatt in eight films, and someday he wants to have his own film production house.
The maverick filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt had originally named the project Blue Film, which generated quite some noise. The phrase still appears in the film's publicity.
After all, says Bhatt, "we are living in the Kalyug."
SANJEEV CHOUDHARY
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