Film Industry is Facing Many Challenges feat. Hansal Mehta

On this episode, host Sidharth Bhatia is joined by director Hansal Mehta. Hansal has made some highly critically acclaimed films such as Shahid and Aligarh, and recently dominated the OTT space with his web series 'Scam 1992' - a multi-part series that tells the compelling story of the stock market scandal of the 1990's. Hansal often also tweets on current topic and speaks up about industry matters.

Here, Sidharth talks to Hansal Mehta about how the lockdowns have affected the film industry, the closure of cinemas, and the future of films and the wya films will be made in the coming months and years.

Hansal also talks about not expecting this kind of euphoria and response for Scam 1992, at what point he realised they were working on something that would resonate, the combination of factors for the show's success, the 3 years it took to write and shoot the show, and lots more.

They also talk about the banking system and frauds that have taken place over the years since Harshad Mehta's 1992 scam (Ketan Parekh, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya), how the pandemic has affected creativity among people, the big screen experience going away for the near future at least, how the benchmarks for success have changed and are not restricted to box office success anymore, the freedom to express ourselves, censorship, and tons more.

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