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Nitya Mehra on Unpaused: Wanted to champion humanity
Updated On: 31 December, 2020 12:09 PM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Nitya Mehra discusses her short film, Chand Mubarak in the anthology Unpaused.
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A still from Chand Mubarak
The film that stands out in Amazon Prime’s Unpaused is Nitya Mehra’s Chand Mubarak. Headlined by Ratna Pathak Shah and Shardul Bharadwaj, the short tells the story of an unlikely friendship two people forge during the lockdown. Mehra has been lauded for bringing to the fore a woman`s choice to be single without remorse. That aside, she says her film primarily celebrates compassion. "I wanted to open up people’s perspectives. Our society could often be insular that triggers us to judge the other. The film deals with societal structure, religious divide, class, age, gender-based disparities. In most ways, Rafiq and Uma (the protagonists) have nothing in common but there’s a connection nonetheless. I was in lockdown in Alibag and I was pretty clear that I didn’t want to shoot in a house where people are locked in. That’s where the idea of shooting in a rickshaw came from. With COVID, the societal structures that are already existent would only deepen. People will take a long time to trust one another. The word trust played an important role in condensing the story. I spoke to a lot of people and I realised how cut off people felt from their life as they knew it. I am glad Amazon took this opportunity, to make a film about hope. And I personally wanted to champion humanity.”
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