| No Images? Click here  CASHING IN ON TRAGEDYIt's been quite a hectic few days for the Hindi film industry. Earlier this week, producer Guneet Monga's short documentary, Period. End of a Sentence won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (short). After soaking in the euphoria of the Oscar win in LA, she got on a phone call with HuffPost to chat about her journey from being an insurance sales agent to an award-winning, festival-trotting movie producer.However, Sinu Joseph, a menstrual educator has raised some concerns regarding the facts presented in the film.While Bollywood recovered from debates about how Green Book was perhaps the least deserving Best Picture winner (Crash finally can rest easy), the Balakot retaliatory strikes kept the industry buzzing. Not for the best reasons though. A visit to the IMPPA offices, an industry body, revealed that Bollywood producers were fighting to register 'patriotic' titles for movies they might or might not make in the future.Well, just another day in B-Town. On the brighter side, once arch-rivals Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra bought the house down during the finale of the relatively dreary season of Koffee with Karan and Abhishek Chaubey's Sonchiriya, a well-crafted drama about rebellion and redemption hit cinemas. At the offices of an industry body, HuffPost Entertainment Editor Ankur Pathak posed as a small-time producer, who's trying to put together a web-series inspired by the recent attacks,What followed was a hilarious encounter, where he witnessed first-hand a producer trying to register the title, "Pulwama: The Deadly Attack" while suggesting us bizarre variations of the title.The trick, the producer confided, was to come up with a sentence that had all the key words. “Then, just reduce the font of the rest of your title and highlight Pulwama/Balakot/Surgical Strikes 2.0 in big, bold letters.” Whaaat!   "They said I am there to tick a box, the diversity one, the woman one, the inclusivity one. When The Lunchbox succeeded as a truly crossover project, they said it was luck. When our film, Masaan, went to Cannes, they still said the same,” says Guneet Monga, following her film's Oscar win.“But I’m not bothered. I work bloody hard. My work is for all to see. Constantly putting Indian films on the map doesn’t happen by fluke, it takes a lot of relentlessness, a lot of hard work...” In case you missed it… New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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