Director discusses Homebound, India’s Oscar entry on caste and friendship

In the first place, he had to go a long way to start this very personal project. Now he started to study engineering in the middle of his forties and worked in the corporate world, then he was criticized online and finally started to make his own short films.

He made his first release with The Independent Drama in 2015 TableA common production between India and France that won the admiration of Martin Scorsese. However, until 2018, he did not define himself as a branch, he said, çıktı He came out with a tweet ”.

Until then, he was masked like the upper caste, as Chandan tried to do in the film and felt like a fraud. However, disclosing the truth did not immediately relieve.

“What did I do?” He asked when Tweet was going to viral, that he was afraid of his friends and his colleagues would leave him. For anyone who does not grow in the caste system, it is not easy to grasp the results.

“Caste is not a class, G Ghaywan says, especially worried about how home servants, which belong to a higher caste, will respond to the news.

“I told them two or three days later, and they were very hospitable.”

Film producers Ghaywan’s inspiration is basically from the field of art cinema (Federico Fellini, the number 1 hero). But Moss It maintains the independence of the soul, supported by one of India’s largest production companies and is directed to a large audience both local and internationally.

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Again, Ghaywan sees this as part of his responsibility. Festival screenings and potential awards are all very good, but for a limited audience, there will be no meaning to make a film on this subject. “Because what happens to the people you are based on? They never watch the film, they never experience it, they never see.”

This means that despite his concern about originality, the casting was first of all by who would be a bank at the Indian box office. Both young stars say that they were “completely alien ve to the characters they played – but he tried to correct it with the workshops that lasted for months, first focused on accent and dialect, and then traveled to the villages where they stayed with the families in the story.

This period was also the chance to establish a personal connection of the couple’s wounded on the screen.

Im I told them, you have very little time to be friends, G Ghaywan says. “And the easiest way to be friends is that when you open each other, you are vulnerable to each other and share your secrets.”

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He says that friendship is the theme that allows viewers from cultures to be connected to the film (Scorsese, who served as the manager producer, advised him during the regulation that he was “always about men)).

After one of the Cannes screenings, Ghaywan immediately remembers the hand of a crying audience member with troubles in North Ireland. But the most important thing for Ghaywan is that the film is accepted in India, “These people and their stories have never been shown,” he says.

“I’m here to come together and empathize, or he says. “This is all intention.”

Moss Now in theaters.