EXCLUSIVE! Director Sejal Shah on Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Costao: ‘He was bit a maverick and a mad man’
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In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost, Costao director, Sejal Shah talks concerning the movie, working with Nawazuddin Siddiqui, assembly the true Costao and extra.
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Costao is a really complicated protagonist and director Sejal Shah introduced that out brilliantly in his character performed by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Based mostly on a real story, the movie is a few Goan customs officer Costao Fernandes (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who made historical past by catching an enormous gold smuggling operation within the Nineties.
In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb Roy, Shah talks about
Costao
who’s a little bit of a maverick and the way in which she wished to point out the character within the movie. There may be absolute honesty in her strategy and the way in which Nawazuddin has depicted it.
Edited excerpts from the interview:
What made you provide you with the thought of
Costao
and make it right into a film?
I was a journalist earlier than I turned a producer. I additionally had this aim of desirous to direct. I used to be additionally engaged on a few concepts and assembly lots of people. And I used to be a journalist as you understand. I’ve a buddy of mine known as Pranati, who used to work for Indian Specific. Once I met her as soon as truly 4 to 5 years again. She launched me to this individual known as PK Das who was truly Costao’s boss. He’s a really senior man in customs and really revered. I used to be simply chatting with him and in one of many conversations, he talked about Costao. I knew about this story which occurred within the 90s.
Once I began studying about Costao, I requested him to introduce me to him. Das very particularly instructed me that Costao had been approached a number of instances for a movie, however he isn’t very eager. I went to Goa and frolicked with him and it took plenty of time to earn his confidence and belief. Most individuals love to speak about their heroic battles, however this was very sophisticated. Even whereas watching the film Costao, you will need to have realised that he’s a really complicated protagonist.
What was the method of casting Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Costao? And what was the character of Costao that you simply wished to focus on?
Once I went to Nawaz, I very particularly instructed him that we don’t need to do a whitewash hero, like in typical movies the place we see a hero, heroine, dancer, comic and all that. Costao
performed by Nawaz is unquestionably a heroic man, however he feels responsible. His angle in the direction of household fails and he realises that. There are plenty of complexities within the character of Costao and that’s what me.
After we met him for this film, by no means as soon as did he say that we must always present solely good issues about him. He’s such a truthful man that he demanded the identical from us. There was plenty of artistic integrity that went into the movie. Lots of people felt that we must always have proven a happier ending. That’s as a result of we’re so used to seeing whitewashed characters and a lot romanticization of a hero that no one desires to see a hero who’s flawed. However I imagine that each one people are flawed. That’s what me about Costao. And that’s how the movie occurred.
Going again to Nawazuddin Siddiqui, he’s an actor with a really robust Hindi diction, how did you handle to assist him play a Goan man?
Nawaz as you understand is an especially devoted actor and figuring out his caliber, I knew that he would be capable to match into this character. The concept was to not make a caricature and secondly, to get the soul of the individual. And he understood the character of Costao and did his position brilliantly.
As I realised that Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s eyes had been doing many of the speaking. The expressions had been good. How did you convey concerning the honesty within the character?
All of us labored on the movie in such a manner that there ought to be some honesty to the character. He, in keeping with me, obtained every part that the character demanded. And Costa was additionally a maverick. He’s a little bit of a madman. After which it will get very simple for a director when you’re working with an actor of that caliber. He understood the precise tone and therapy of the character.
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