Published 17:55 IST, November 26th 2019
Zoya Akhtar shares thoughts on Lust Stories, digital medium and her upcoming work
Zoya Akhtar in a recent media interaction spoke about how cinema is evolving and her experience directing an online film. Read to know more about the interview.
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Zoya Akhtar has made a name in film industry with her movies like Luck By Chance, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and most recent Gully Boy, which incidentally is official entry from India for Oscars 2020. In a tete-e-tete with a leading entertainment magazine, director expressed her views on evolving cinema and much more. Here is all you need to kw.
Zoya Akhtar on how Indian cinema is evolving
Zoya Akhtar, who made her directorial debut in 2009 with Luck By Chance, believes Indian cinema is in one of best phases, where re is a demand for content that is vel and intriguing. Cinema is evolving, she says, with streaming platforms and infrastructure making cinema and content available to all houses. She loves this phase of cinema where she can tell many different kinds of stories without worry of censorship.
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Zoya Akhtar on Lust Stories and depicting female perspective through movies
Early this year, Zoya, made her digital debut with Netflix's Lust Stories. movie is an anthology directed by Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap and Zoya Akhtar. Akhtar's movie features Bollywood actor Bhumi Pednekar and Neil Bhoopalam in lead and narrates an illicit affair between a housemaid and her bachelor employer. Akhtar believes movie brought a female perspective to forefront and director wishes to put forth stories narrating same in future.
On professional front, Zoya is busy writing script for second season of Amazon Prime's Made In Heaven. Or than Made In Heaven, director is reportedly working on endless productions with her production house, Tiger Baby Films.
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08:35 IST, November 26th 2019