What direction did you give your lead actors Anushka Sharma and Varun Dhawan to ensure that they blend into this environment you had created?īoth of them visited the place before the shoot. Even the bedsheets are borrowed from someone.
Then we borrowed things from other people’s houses and used it, so there’s nothing that is bought fresh. Usually you go to a location and then find the best spot there to shoot the film, but we actually found a house the characters would live in and shot there even if it looked uncinematic. After visiting them the one thing I know is that I’m never going to bargain with a craftsman again. Chanderi is a beautiful place and it’s a village of craftsmen, and weavers. We don’t do touristy stuff in these places, we actually engage. So when we were coming back from the recce I thought this a funny character we should have him in the film, so I wrote it in. He sells paan and he sits with his back facing the people. About Bhopal, someone told me a story about this man who nobody has seen. I changed some characters because of the people I met. All of that happens when we actually step out to make the film. Also it’s basically based on people you know. We spent a lot of time in Chanderi before the shoot because we didn’t want to create any sets. We just shoot in real locations and pick actors from those areas. Even Dum Laga Ke Haisha (DLKH) is perceived as a film about small town India but neither in its sensibility or in its making were we trying to show the real side of India. I don’t see it as small town genre films. How do you bring in that authenticity when you’re sitting in Mumbai and writing? The real challenge here is to make it feel real and rooted, which you managed in Dum Laga Ke Haisha. In September there are films like Batti Gul Meter Chalu and Pataakha also releasing which tell stories of small town India. Here Katariya talks about creating the world of Sui Dhaaga in a way that looks authentic and then drafting his stars into that world. The whole struggle is to not fall into the trap of predictability and cliches.” “Very few times as a writer do you have this level of clarity while making a film, more than I had before my earlier film… Also as soon as I see something and feel this is really going to work, my instant reaction is to not do it. Katariya says there’s a natural fear that arises before release but he doesn’t feel the added stress. But the risks seems to be more – especially with the presence of A-list actors like Anushka Sharma and Varun Dhawan. This time around he’s back with Sui Dhaaga whose trailer evokes the same warmth and simplicity of his previous film. But he later explained, “When the risks are smaller, you are freer”. We all know how things turned out for Katariya. It wasn’t massively promoted, it didn’t really look like a regular Yash Raj film, lead actor Ayushmann Khurana wasn’t having a great run and Bhumi Pednekar (who looked dramatically different at the time) was a debutante.
The 29-year-old actress also acknowledged casting director Shanoo Sharma and added, "Thank you for your faith bro.On the face of it, there wasn’t much going for Sharat Katariya’s Dum Laga Ke Haisha in 2015. I'll cherish this film forever! It has given me not just my first break but a family for life in Ayushmann Khurrana, Sharat Katariya and Maneesh Sharma," read the caption on Bhumi's post. "4 years and 30 kgs ago, my dream came true in the maddest possible way with Dum Laga Ke Haisha. In her post, Bhumi thanked her co-star Ayushmann, film's director Sharat Katariya and film's producer Maneesh Sharma. Bhumi, who made her Bollywood debut with the 2015 film, opposite Ayushmann Khurrana, accompanied the video with an extensive note, in which she wrote that her "dream came true in the maddest way possible" with Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
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