


I called up our police commissioner Rakesh Maria as soon as I came to know of it and he immediately acted upon it. And she feels victimised and I feel responsible. You try to take a step forward as a filmmaker, they take you five steps back. But when you put out a video like this without context, people start making jokes on it. I had shown the film before sending it to many of my friends including Vikramaditya Motwane’s mother and she cried as she felt it was so powerful and we needed to put out something like this. “It has to be some Indian guy there, otherwise other material from other sources that is much more sexual is available to the west and something like this does not get them excited. And then, all of a sudden after a month from nowhere, this video popped up online.” After taking all the care, the film was delivered to New York a month back. And everybody assumes that since it is an Indian film, it will always be pixelated. So, nobody even knew who is a part of the film. At every stage of the post-production, that part was either sent blank or pixelated before being sent. And there were girls at every stage of the post-production. The entire shooting crew was women as we knew that we were making something as sensitive as this. It was not easy to find an actor who is brave enough to participate in it.

It took us so much time to do it in a non-sexual way, as it is meant to be absolutely non-sexual and we took all the care we could. It was very difficult to make this short film due to this little sequence in the film of a few seconds that involves the actress to lift her dress and expose her lower front part and needed that very minor partial nudity front shot. My story was inspired by a true story and is a very powerful film. This film was with subtitles and meant for release only in the international market. “There is a short film of 20 minutes that I had been commissioned to direct (there are 6 other directors from different parts of the world who have also directed different films that will eventually form a part of one big film that is yet to be released). A few months ago Anurag Kashyap had shot a 20-minute short film featuring the bold and beautiful Radhika Apte, which required a frontal nude shot of the actress that has gone viral.Įnraged by the incident, Anurag Kashyap, in conversation with Times of India, spoke about how the shot seen out of context is an insult to an artist’s work.
