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Nikkhil Advani: Film's idea came from solitude, depression
Updated On: 16 December, 2020 07:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Helming a short film centred on lockdown in Amazon's anthology Unpaused, director Nikkhil Advani on how the Richa Chadha-starrer gives hope amid pandemic.
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Richa Chadha in The Apartment
It all started with a call from Amazon Prime Studio's content head, Aparna Purohit. The brief for Unpaused, the streaming giant's anthology that unites filmmakers Nikkhil Advani, Raj-DK, Nitya Mehra, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Avinash Arun Dhaware, was simple — intimate tales of lockdown.
"Every filmmaker was assigned a budget. We were given three days for shoot. The unit comprised 10 people, and at no point did the floor have more than six people," says Advani, who has helmed The Apartment, featuring Richa Chadha, Sumeet Vyas and Ishwak Singh. "The messaging was clear — while the pandemic is all-consuming, there's light at the end of the tunnel. The cynic in me would've made it gritty and dark, but the creative freedom at work made me feel like a kid in a candy store."
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