Acclaimed director Hansal Mehta’s cinema has all the gravitas needed to make thought-provoking content. Only on Day 2 of the Cinevesture International Film Festival in Chandigarh, we see his delectable sense of humour as much as his deep insight into what goes behind the scenes.
In a session, he and his current muse, the talented actor Pratik Gandhi, talked about director actor-relationship and what it takes to crack the code. Mehta joked how its ‘lazy casting’, which brings him to his Scam 1992 actor once more. On a serious note, he shares how Applause Entertainment, which has produced the much-anticipated series on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, actually roped-in Pratik first and came to him later. But then who else but Pratik, who has been playing Gandhi on stage for years would have been a better fit for the part of the Father of the Nation.
