Alia Bhatt is known as one of the best actors of her generation and in a recent interview, cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee spoke about his collaboration with Alia in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. Sudeep said that cinematographers have to form a relationship with the actors so they can get the best out of a given scene. He recalled that while shooting a scene for Gangubai Kathiawadi, he could not decipher if Alia had even heard his instructions as she did not react at all but her performance said otherwise.
He shared with Film Companion, “With Alia, when I give her an instruction… Initially, I used to say that there is no response. I wouldn’t know whether she has heard me or not. But she would do it to the point.” He then recalled a scene from the film where Seema Pahwa’s Sheela is performing with Alia’s Gangubai and is trying to suck her into her brothel.
“There was one sequence where she is being trapped into the brothel and Sheela mausi is holding her face. I left a small slit of sunlight on her face. The light is almost a symbolism of her hope, her dignity, her pride, everything. And she would really want to cling on to that. In my mind, she would try to move towards the light and Sheela mausi would keep on dragging her to the darkness,” he shared.
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Sudeep said that he wondered if he should share this with Alia so she could move her face accordingly and they could achieve the desired effect. “I thought maybe if I tell this to her, and it was early in the shoot, I said if I tell this to her, she can help me in achieving this. When I told her, I didn’t realise that she had even realised what I had said and she… But you see that scene and see what she does. Then after the take, she came and asked me that ‘could I manage?’ I was so happy,” he said.
Alia Bhatt was widely praised for her work in Gangubai Kathiawadi. The actor will next be seen in Vasan Bala’s next Jigra.
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Alia Bhatt gave no response when cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee gave her instructions during Gangubai Kathiawadi: ‘Wouldn’t know if she heard me’ – The Indian Express
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