Against All Odds With Devashish Makhija | Where We Talk About Films S01EP011 | Part 02

On this episode of Where We Talk About Films, filmmaker and host Vidar Joshi speaks to Filmmaker, Fiction Writer, Graphic Designer, and Poet Devashish Makhija. He’s known for his films ‘Bhonsle’, ‘Ajji’, ‘Oonga’ and his books ‘Forgetting’, ‘When Ali Became Bajrangbali’. In this episode, they talk about his struggles as a filmmaker, Writing Novels and Poetry, Working as an AD on ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Bunty aur Babli’, His intense filmmaking approach, and a lot more.

Chapters:
00:00 - Cinematic influences - 2
2:22 - Approach towards writing a film.
5:14 - Financing Ajji.
6:57 - How to sustain your integrity as an artist?
10:22 - Decoding a scene from Ajji.
19:11 - Working with actors.
22:28 - Showing violence on screen.
25:17 - Devashish Makhija's take on style of a director.
27:36 - Exploitation in independent cinema.
31:43 - How do you function where there are so many issues going around?

Where We Talk About Films is a podcast where we discuss cinema with the artists who have brought us the stories we have loved. It's an exploration of the art form and how they approach it. We sit, we talk, we explore films and of course we face some internet issues.

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Credits: Host: Vidar Joshi Content Team: Aditya Raut, Lehar Khan, Darshan Merchant, Vidar Joshi Stop Motion Artist: Lehar Khan Graphics: Vinayak Chhabra Post Production: Bhumik Shah Music: Aaryaman Simhal