Netflix’s ‘Sikandar Ka Muqaddar’ producer Shital Bhatia on the movie: ‘The suggestions now we have obtained to date has been wonderful’ – Firstpost

Netflix has launched Neeraj Pandey’s Sikandar Ka Muqaddar on its platform from November 29. Starring Jimmy Shergill, Avinash Tiwary, and Tamannaah Bhatia, the movie is produced by Friday Storytellers. Sikandar Ka Muqaddar unravels a gripping story of a police officer’s relentless pursuit to unravel a diamond heist — however at what price? As the stress builds, questions come up: Are the three suspects really responsible, or is there extra to the story than meets the attention?

In an unique interview with Firstpost, Friday Storytellers’ Shital Bhatia, who’s additionally the producer of the movie, spoke about collaborating with Neeraj Pandey, cinema altering, and the evolution of OTT.

Edited excerpts from the interview

Netflix’s Sikandar Ka Muqaddar is a really quirky title and depraved form of a film. What was the thought that went behind it when it got here to you?

The story was very attention-grabbing. Such as you’re saying, it was very quirky. The story didn’t come to me. The story involves Neeraj, and as soon as it involves him, we focus on it. And we discovered it very attention-grabbing, and we thought we should always make this into a movie, and that’s the way it occurred.

And, cinema is altering and the entire perspective of the entire lookout for cinema can also be altering. Your ideas.

The best way we’re issues, there aren’t any adverse or optimistic characters, very nice characters. An individual will not be a hero or a heroine, particularly with the digital platform coming in. Each character performs a vital function.

So what do it’s important to say about this alteration?

I believe our trade has been continuously altering. You all the time are on a lookout for telling newer tales and newer manners, and, I believe that’s a course of that’s all the time been there. At present, we’re going by means of a journey the place, for the final couple of years haven’t been that nice as an entire for the trade. So it additionally tells us to introspect and we’re all the time searching for newer tales to say. In order that’s a continuing course of.

It’s not that it’s simply occurred, it’s an OTT growth. And the OTT is popping out with concepts, which now we have in all probability not thought of some years again. And, particularly this story. The best way it has turned out to be from shifting from one finish. Who would have thought on the finish that this might have occurred? So the storytelling can also be altering.

So what do it’s important to say when these form of concepts come to the director and the director involves you with the concept to money on him?

So it’s a means of fixed innovation. So, whether or not it’s for function movies or OTT, the problem is how how one can inform newer tales. However, sadly, I don’t see a lot innovation on the the function movies that’s on the theatre movies. It would occur. It’s one thing that you simply continuously try for. So it’s not that it’s going to occur in a single day, however, sure, it’s going to occur.

And, when it comes to OTT, sure, it provides you a chance to inform tales that earlier you’ll have thought that you simply don’t know whether or not it’s going to work on the field workplace. OTT has additionally given you the chance to make longer tales. I imply, content material that you could’t say in 2 hours, tales that you could’t say in 2 hours. And when you have 6 hours of story, then you recognize it helps in growing it as an OTT sequence.

And what do it’s important to say when the story involves you? What was your response to it, like, when this narration was executed for your entire story? Did you say that when a part of it?

We undoubtedly thought it could, and it’s like getting a whole lot of love from the audiences. In an earlier interview at this time, someone was telling me that it’s obtained a combined response. So I don’t learn the opinions as such, however the suggestions that we’ve obtained has been wonderful. It’s been monitoring very effectively on the platform inside simply 3 days.

What’s the subsequent concept that you simply’re going to be encashing on?

We’ve obtained a few sequence popping out. We’ve obtained Khakee Chapter Two popping out early subsequent 12 months. Then, we’ve obtained Particular Ops 2 popping out. And, there are a few movies which might be within the pipeline, nevertheless it’s too early to talk about them proper now.