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Anubhav Sinha’s fear about India that came true
Updated On: 28 June, 2022 07:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Upset about Anek’s underwhelming run, director Sinha says he had a nagging feeling that mainstream audience wasn’t ready to see north-east actors on screen
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Anubhav Sinha
With Mulk (2017), Article 15 (2019) and Thappad (2020), Anubhav Sinha married content and commerce. But his hot streak stood broken with Ayushmann Khurrana and Andrea Kevichusa-starrer Anek. When we sit down to chat with the filmmaker, that’s where we begin. “When I made Anek, no one was questioning me. I had three back-to-back successes, so everyone felt I knew something. That isn’t true. Nobody knows anything. When I told Ayushmann the story, he lobbied for it. I wanted to do another film first, but everyone liked this project more,” he says.
Walking into the film that champions inclusivity, Sinha worried whether the mainstream audience would accept north-east actors on screen. “I had the nagging feeling that mainstream India will be put off looking at faces they are not used to. The Hindi accent [used] is not regular either. Within four days of releasing the film, I was in Istanbul with an acclaimed political journalist. He said the reason you made the film is the very reason the [audience] isn’t watching it. It broke my heart further. When I spoke to exhibitors, they said, ‘Who will see a film about people who don’t look like them?’” Confident of his material, the filmmaker states that a good film always lives on. “It has dropped on Netflix, so it will find more viewers.”
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