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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: Film is not about farmers’ protest
Updated On: 19 August, 2021 08:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who has nurtured the idea for past five years, plans to make a movie on plight of farmers in rural India
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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Even as he was making Toofaan with Farhan Akhtar and Mrunal Thakur, another idea was sprouting in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s head. The filmmaker has long been keen to bring the plight of Indian farmers to the big screen. “I have been living with the idea for several years. But you can only do one thing at a time. When I get into a film, I tend to completely lose myself in that world and forget about [other concepts],” he says, admitting it’s high time he put pen to paper and gave shape to the story.
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