Anushka Sharma's maiden production Paatal Lok has garnered appreciation from all over the industry. Creator Sudip Sharma has now explained what went behind making the Amazon Prime show.
“We wanted to explore these divisions in India that run crisscross - be it class, caste, language, religion or gender. Caste and religion are two prominent faultlines. What makes them different is that it’s possible to outgrow class through a change in socioeconomic status, but it’s impossible to grow out of your caste or religion in the country,” Sudip told a news agency in an interview.
“We wanted to revert that and look at us through the eyes of this Delhi cop. What he sees when he sees us? What it means to do a job which earns Rs 35,000-40,000 a month in a city like Delhi and to be subjected to all the crime and violence day in, day out and then go back home. Hathiram can be rude and politically incorrect but as we spend more time with him and start seeing his world through his eyes, something changes in our perception of him. That was the idea,” Sudip said.
As someone who grew up looking at some of the prominent journalists of 1990s and 2000s as they set the discourse in the country, Sudip said he wanted to look at what changed in the profession. “Some of it changed because the country changed, and some of it changed because the values that we aspired to as a country, they changed. But some of it was also the doing of the media, their moral failure and giving in too easily. The show attempts to understand what happened there and what went wrong with these people. Also what it means to be a media person in India today, to take all the abuse that you get on social media everyday and still be able to do your job with some amount of dignity,” he said."
(Source: PTI)
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