City Diary
IN A RECENT CONVERSATION WITH US, ADITYA KRIPLANI CANDIDLY SPOKE ABOUT HIS JOURNEY, AND HOW WOMEN GENERALLY HEAD HIS MOVIES.
Coming from a non-filmy background, Aditya Kriplani is now one of the finest storytellers in the industry. An independent filmmaker, writer, musician and a producer shot to fame with three international best-selling books Backseat, Frontseat and Tikli And Laxmi Bomb.
Aditya was recently in the National Capital for the screening of his movie Totta Pataaka Item Maa at Navrang — The Film Society of Ashoka University. In a recent conversation with us, Aditya candidly spoke about his journey, upcoming project and how women generally head his movies. Aditya as a filmmaker began his journey with Film and
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Television Institute of India (FTII), he shares, “Getting into this school was all, it took me to the new world of filmmaking. As it was the first and last chance, we put all our life savings in it. “For me, cinema is all about interdependence. It has been a fabulous journey and deeply satisfying,” he further adds. On asking why his movies are generally helmed by women, to whom he replies, “We need movies in which women and men come together and work as one and also talk about their issues. We need movies where there is equality of pay, work, responsibility, power and spirit. We need to see the similarities in each other more than the differences. This is my belief. We have a lot of women on board because they've, in my limited time as a filmmaker, been a better worker.” Aditya felt that all of us had said and made a story a lot about Mumbai as a city and about the personification of Mumbai as a woman, and that’s how he lands upon the idea of Totta Pataaka Item Maal, he continues, reasonable prices.
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When: till 4 April Where: IGallery Art Magnum, Yusuf Sarai, New Delhi “Now it was time to make one about Delhi. Seeing Delhi as an enraged woman, we wanted to deal with the rage of a woman’s feeling, as being treated like it's not her city, she can't roam on the streets freely. She is being objectified, used and thrown multiple times in the city. That anger simmering within the women of Delhi is what we tried to give vent to.”
He shared that his upcoming projects — Devi Aur Hero and Not Today — are based on mental health. “Devi Aur Hero is based on Dissociative Identity Disorder and Sex Addiction while Not Today is based on suicide prevention. Both subjects are something that we really need to talk about. Not Today, is about a young girl who has come for her first day as a suicide prevention counsellor. And how she tries to convince this one 50 years old to not jump off a building.”
Aditya feels that he is more aware and more dimensional now. “I hope I can remain grounded and such stories keep finding me because I don't find them, they come to me, and I am in service of them,” he concludes.