[pullquote_left]Darsheel Safary, who plays the young Saleem, was a tough act to follow! Darsheel is a natural but also very disciplined for one so young.[/pullquote_left]
You’ve shot scenes of holocaust and the battle including the Bangladesh massacre. You are no stranger to massacre scenes. How difficult was it for you to shoot scenes of such unimaginable brutality? It can be very emotionally draining. However, those types of scenes often require a huge level of focus and orchestration to pull off, so often, While I’m concentrating my energy on creating such a scene, when I walk away or get a rare moment of quiet, I emotionally process the implications of what we just shot. While it may not be real life on a film set, to know that at some point in time, certain events were real, with real people is quite powerful and humbling to say the least.
Tell me about your next project in some detail.
The next project is a film called ‘Masterpiece’, a story about the French artiste Henri Matisse and his nurse, model and muse, Monique Bourgeois that we will be shooting in France. It’s all very exciting and I very much look forward to shooting it. But after some rest when Midnight’s Children releases.
