Cinematographer Pushan Kripalani returns to the director’s chair with Goldfish, seven years after his debut in the acclaimed director’s “The Threshold”.
In the film, Anamika, a half-Indian, half-English woman, returns home to the UK to deal with her mother’s dementia and the scars of her childhood. The cast includes Kalki Koechlin (“Holy Games”), veteran Dipty Naval (“Good Vine Hospital”), Gordon Warnick (“Venus”), Rajit Kapoor (“Rocket Boys”) and Bharti Patel (“The Undeclared War”).
“It is very difficult to make independent cinema, as it is not easily funded and so it took me a long time to get this film. I feel that dealing with the bigger questions is only possible by examining the smaller parts of human relationships. I feel my job is to foster human conversation and it has been This is a great way to try to do that,” Kripalani said diverse.
“Dementia will also be one of the biggest concerns in the next decade or two. I think everyone will communicate soon if they do not already have contact with someone with this condition,” Kripalani adds.
Navy said diverse: “It didn’t take much research for the role because I’ve known someone with dementia – it’s part of my personal experience. I’ve known someone close to me with dementia. So when I read the role, I thought this was my chance to explain something I knew firsthand.”
“Dementia is a very common condition in old age. So it is not something rare or out of the ordinary – we see it everywhere,” Naval adds. “It’s something we’ve come to know in the seniors around us, and it’s not hard to imagine. It’s from observing the life around us. It’s by knowing the seniors in our family and knowing how their behavior patterns might differ from ours.”
Koechlin says she didn’t know anyone with dementia, but “Goldfish” writer Argya Lahiri, whose father suffered from it, spent many hours recounting the stories to her.
“The main preparation I did for this role was working on the Oxford/Cambridge accent as Anamika’s father was a British university professor and she is an Indian born in London. Apart from Pushan’s own way of shooting uncut, and with two cameras at the same time, we had to practice on scenes and we rehearse them a few times until we get the whole scene flowing,” Koechlin . said diverse.
Kripalani, who sees his twin shooting and directing duties as complementary to him, said he set the film in the UK for a reason. When one examines the question of identity it becomes clearer when one is at a distance from it. The Indian population of the United Kingdom is well integrated into the mainstream society. So there is an interesting tension between what we perceive as Indian identity and British Indian identity – they both influence each other culturally,” says Kripalani. “The nature of being away from India and the UK has given me insight into examining what we might consider the idea of Indian identity. Being in the UK, away from India has helped me see India and the idea of India in a clearer light.”
The film was produced by Amit Saxena for the American company Splendid Films. “Once I read the synopsis, I knew this was going to be my first film as a producer. The woman-centric theme was one of the biggest attractions for me, along with the immigrant aspects because I myself am an immigrant and I relate to some of the nuances of the film,” Saxena said. diverse.
‘Goldfish’, which premieres in Busan on Friday (October 7), will premiere at London’s Raindance Film Festival. Next for Kripalani is an exciting spy thriller that he writes with Lahiri.
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