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‘If you don’t make difficult films, you’ll have a dumb audience, a dumb voter’
Updated On: 14 May, 2023 08:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
Sudhir Mishra and Anubhav Sinha, friends and collaborators on last week’s political thriller that chases the life of a rumour, on why they don’t waste time on apprehensions
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Writer-director of Afwaah Sudhir Mishra with the film’s producer Anubhav Sinha at his Andheri West office. Pic/Sameer Markande
The day we visit Sterling theatre in Fort for an 8 pm show of Sudhir Mishra’s Afwaah, #LoveJihad has been trending largely thanks to the week’s other controversial release, The Kerala Story. It tells the story about a group of women from the southern state who are converted to Islam and forced to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Mishra’s film, a plausible antithesis to this rhetoric, appears light years away from this shor sharaba.
Afwaah is not unbothered, though. When we walk out of the cinema, we realise that it’s deeply invested in the great affliction of our times—the boom and doom of viral-ity and the nature of communal propaganda. With characters caught in the thick of the white noise on the web, the film cleverly chooses to play spectator instead of taking the moral high ground as commentator. “Here’s a town. Let’s witness the chaos,” it seems to say.
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