Kiran’s Peeve

At the 12th Osian Film Festival in New Delhi, the cast and crew of Dhobi Ghat, aka Mumbai Diaries, delved into their experience of making the film.

At the 12th Osian Film Festival in New Delhi, the cast and crew of Dhobi Ghat, aka Mumbai Diaries, delved into their experience of making the film. The film’s director, Kiran Rao, said that the multiplex phenomenon is largely profit driven and does not help the cause of parallel cinema—which does not always have popular content and therefore does not draw a large audience. Dhobi Ghat released in multiplexes across the country in January 2011. But if Rao had it her way, she would have liked to rent a small theatre where the film would be played for a nominal fee but over a long period of time. This would have given the audience enough opportunity to watch the film. Rao did say, however, that Dhobi Ghat showed that you could make different kinds of films in India.

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