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Interview With The Director of Kota Factory Raghav Subbu
The second episode of digital commentary’s The Creators Show featuring Raghav Subbu reveals a director’s efforts in creating a show.
Raghav Subbu has directed esteemed shows like Kota Factory, Hostel Daze and Fathers S01 and talks briefly about the exciting process of turning a mere idea into a visual delight of a show. Formerly, he tells, the advertising world fascinated him and he wanted to be a copywriter. However, after working briefly as a copywriter, he switched and started working with TVF as an assistant director and making shows and sketches for the channel. For young enthusiasts he suggests that persistence is the key in paving one’s way to their goal.
Further in the Digital Commentary interview, hosted by Kshitiz Sudhakar, he talks about his approach of directing a show, gives us a peep in the creation of Hostel Daze, tells us in detail about his amazing experience of directing Kota Factory, gives us a behind the scenes glimpse and a director’s perspective of the critically acclaimed show. He tells he believes in the blend of ‘art and entertainment’ in forming the skeleton of the show and it is preferably the thought line he works and directs on. He also believes in creation of all forms of content suiting different tastes of the audience.
Concluding the interview, he suggests some great movies for the audience, talks about the creative liberty of the directors of digital shows and presents his views on the impact of the pandemic in the field of filmmaking. Dive into the interview if you’re waiting for Kota Factory 2 and hear the director’s word on it.
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Update Your Watchlist With These Movie or Series Recommendations
Is your watchlist empty? Get some great movie and series recommendations and reviews with DIgital Commenatry’s The Audio Feed.
Has the lockdown served you with boredom? Are you looking for a new web series/movies to watch? Well, here’s a retreat, Digital Commentary‘s new initiative “The Audio Feed” is here with delightful movie and show recommendations and reviews.
Aarya, the fabulous come back for Sushmita Sen is all set to take you on a thriller ride available on Disney Hotstar. The series features nine episodes of one hour each and presents a story of a woman who belongs to a royal family of Rajasthan who happens to deal with illegal drugs and dragged her husband into it too. Due to the inconvenient circumstances, the husband is killed and she is made to take over the business all on her own.
Penguin is a Tamil movie that got featured on Amazon Prime quite recently starring the phenomenally talented actor Keerthy Suresh who is known for her miraculous performances in the South industry. The honest review of this film has revealed myriad of its qualities along with the mistakes that the film presented.
Another review that has caught the attention of the audience is Kothanodi, an Assamese film, that has captured immense appreciation and has also been nominated and won for the best film, it features three stories that represent thriller, suspense in which all three of them broadcast a wide variety of crime thriller and engaging content.
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Interview with Arushi Sharma aka Leena from Love Aaj Kal
Digital Commentary conducted an interview with Aarushi Sharma aka Leena from Love Aaj Kal who discussed her whole journey of acting and other films.
It’s really hard to figure out what destiny has determined for you, you may work really hard for something but in the end it always proceeds with your fate that has been predetermined. A similar situation was encountered by Arushi Sharma aka Leena from Love Aaj Kal, she was observed discussing her acting journey in the recent interview conducted by Digital Commentary and hosted by Shashi Mukherjee.
The interview portrayed her entire journey from childhood until the time she decided to become an actress. It was not her initial plan of ever starring in any Bollywood movie but had a secret desire of acting in one. In the interview she was also observed to have discussed her debut film was Tamasha directed by Imtiaz Ali starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone, she also got featured in few short films and her recent was Love Aaj Kal that received huge appreciation by the audience.
Her journey describes the ordinary life of a girl that belongs from Himachal and even after Tamasha being a software engineer she got associated with a job and remained at it until she received the role of Leena. Now that she has been recognised by the audience she has been working on other scripts as well and will be acting further the lockdown settles.
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Behind The Curtain With “The Creators Show”: Amrit Raj Gupta
Digital commentary’s new show “The Creators Show” aims at revealing the tedious efforts of creators of the shows. Here’s a sneak-peek into the first episode featuring Amrit Raj Gupta.
It’s a creator’s vision that is reflected in the show and in fact forms a base on which a show could stand. Acknowledging and appreciating the enervating efforts of the creators, Digital Commentary starts a new show “The Creators Show” which unveils these behind the scene efforts of the creators.
The first episode opens with the director of the successful shows like Gullak, Bachelors S01 and S02 and Operation MBBS Amrit Raj Gupta. He talks about leaving Sitapur settling in Mumbai with an early ambition of becoming a singer, graduating in the field of mass media that kindled his interest in film making to finally working with TVF and becoming a director. He tells after graduation he settled with doing miscellaneous jobs with TVF and now landed up directing his own shows but also was appointed as the creative head of the TVF initiated channel The Screen Patti.
He further gives a detailed insight into the process of show making, from giving the raw vision a structure further molding it into a script, preparing what he calls “The Bible” of the show and forming a show putting together different elements.
Concluding the informative interview, he shares some utilitarian activities for enthusiasts of film making that are helpful in proliferating their expertise on the required skills and his top 5 list of Indian and foreign shows.
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“Never Kiss Your Best Friend”: Show Breaking The Contemporaries
Let’s have an insight into the making of the show “Never kiss your best friend” with the director Arif Khan and the lead cast Nakul Mehta and Anya Singh.
In the latest episode of Digital Commentary’s Hangout hosted by Ankit Shukla, the story behind the show from lights, camera to action is revealed. Leaving behind the contemporary legacies of murder mysteries, dark humor and romance, the fresh, sweet and ingenuous approach towards romantic comedy of the script of the show “Never Kiss your best friend” appealed its director Arif Khan. Although the show is based on the book by Sumrit Shashi, the direction has idiosyncratic approach based truly and solely on the show’s script as the director himself reveals.
The show is focused upon breaking the stereotypes, and an important contributing element in this is the “Her-centered” plot of the show. The show revolves mainly around the female lead character ‘Tani’, the show’s emotional perspective is slanted in the favor of its female lead as well. The character of Tani is portrayed ready to wreak vengeance on all who inflict unjust injuries on her bosom. The intrepid character complements the blatant approach of the show efficiently.
Later in the interview, Nakul talks about his challenges in adapting to the character of a 20-year-old. After deciphering the key characteristics like sprightly, youthful, spontaneous and fun-loving associated with the young age, he tells, enacting the role became quite easy for him.
Anya accredits the director for helping her grasp the crux of the role. At the same time, she refers to the relatability factor of the character Tani, which further helped her bring forth a fabulous performance.
The cinematography of the show is kept reserved in portraying the scenes apt and relevant to the plot rather than giving us the vistas of London where the show was shot, Arif tells us. The pertinent approach of each element contributing in the making of the show gives us a glimpse of wonders it might carry on the screen.
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From Wanting to be A Cricketer to Being an Actor: Tracing Akashdeep Arora’s Journey
From being a cricket enthusiast in childhood to finding his mettle in dancing in teenage years to exploring photography and cinematography in college to being an upcoming actor, Akashdeep Arora has worked hard in framing his multifaceted career.
Breaking the ice by narrating a fun incident from the sets of film Kamyaab Akashdeep sets a jolly tone to the interview. In the latest episode of Digital Commentary, in an exchange with Shashi Mukherjee, Akashdeep also reveals about his childhood and narrates his entire journey. Born and brought up in Kanpur he was formerly dedicated to cricket but due to unavoidable circumstances and degrading grades he left cricket. It was then he discovered his talent of dancing and soon became his school’s choreographer.
He pursued mass communication after school and discovered another landmark in his exploration. He discovered his inclination towards photography and cinematography making short films and enacting small roles at times as well. He runs a non-commercial photography page on instagram. In the course of his first project of still photography for Titli he realized the tiresome process of filmmaking is a hard task.
Doing photography for the film Detective Byomkesh Bakshi and getting inspired by Neeraj Kabi he joined a theater group in Mumbai called Shabd to hone his acting skills. Along with theatre he worked with an advertising agency in Mumbai as well. Marking the threshold of his acting career FilterCopy Akashdeep tells is very dear to his heart even today and he preserves a special place for its set.
Apart from this he believes Inside Edge was the breakthrough for him as an actor and the answer to the validation every actor seeks for. He has also been a part of film URI, web series Mirzapur and has worked as a leading role in the series Tum se Na ho payega. He also reflects on the fact that taking advices from senior actors is beneficial. His upcoming projects include sketches and short films.
No one’s life is smooth as a buttered surface it’s the patience, endeavors and belief in yourself are the factors that call out your success.
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