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By Our Correspondent Š2004 Bollyvista.com |
Newer generation of people wanting to make different films with economic viability and fresh crop of talented actors are joining this fold. Today things have changed in the film industry. The success of crossover films like Hyderabad Blues, Rockford, Monsoon Wedding, Bend It Like Beckham have paved the way... With many such films in the making, the pre-historic notion of packaging saleable stars seems to be a distant past. Why should anyone blame. Today the viewer's notion towards films has totally changed. He wants something better that the softwares he is getting on his TV sets through satellite channels. It's good to see many professional multi-faceted companies growing on the lines of Hollywood. Here arrives one more addition to the lot.
PRIYA RUTH PAUL happens to be the youngest TV producer-director, who was responsible for experimental, yet popular shows, The Dream Merchants and Bazaar Blues. That was in 1993. But the television boom with ghar ghar ki kahani type of serials, made her opt for greener pastures, to strongly convey her message - big screen.
Writer-producer-director Priya is dealing with marriage dilemma in her first feature film The Perfect Husband in English, a crossover film crafted on the lines of Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding. Speaking about the film she enunciates, "My film deals with the subject of expatriate Indian. It takes an interesting look at how marriage in India has become a game of all sorts and pitites the scenario. The film is a tongue-in-cheek look at the prejudices that whir around us. Indians still treat a girl like an equipment that needs to be checked out before purchase. Is there an illness in the family, can she breed well, what are her talents? The only thing they leave to chance is whether she is good in bed. Success of failure doesn't matter much to me. My idea is to bring awareness and getting the message across. That's my style of film-making."
The Perfect Husband starring Rajeshwari Sachdev, Neha Dubey, Pravin Dabas, Sanjay Singh, Pawan Malhotra, Sinia Duggal and British writer-actor William Randell, is a comic romance set in an upper -middle-class North Indian family, that explores a woman's hunt for a soulmate. Sukhwinder Singh has composed the music for the film and has succeeded in bringing a Punjabi flavour in its sound track and also keeping in mind the upbeat mood of today. The music is acquired by Times Music.
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