EXCLUSIVE: Paatal Lok Creator Sudeep Sharma Talks About The Most Difficult Scene: People Fainted On The Set, There Was Chaos
This Was The Most Difficult Scene To Shoot Inn Paatal Lok
Updated : May 13, 2020 02:51 PM IST
Paatal Lok is the all-new Amazon Prime Video web show which has been created by Sudeep Sharma. The show stars Jaideep Ahlawat and Abhishekh Banerjee in key roles.
The web series portrays the events following the murder of a journalist and a cop who is determined to hunt the culprits and pin them down. The creator of the show Sudeep Sharma got into an exclusive conversation with us where he revealed that the show is inspired by the book The Story of My Assassins written by Tarun Tejpal.
EXCLUSIVE: Paatal Lok Creator Sudeep Sharma Talks About The Most Difficult Scene: People Fainted On The Set, There Was Chaos
Time and again, we have seen how liberal journalists are brutally murdered in our country. Sudeep revealed that these real-life cases were definitely a starting point of the show but the show has a much deeper story to tell. “The real-life incidents of journalists being murdered was the starting point of the story but the story does go much beyond that. For me, more than the crime, it was the idea of exploring the life of the journalist. And where does he come from, what crossroads he finds himself in, from a particular point in time and where does he go from there. A whole section of the liberal media finds themselves on some crossroads and are no more in the driving seat of the discourse. What choices do they make now, because those choices shape it all, I wanted to portray that.
He further shed light on how shooting a particular ‘chase sequence’ that is there right in the very first episode was a herculean task. “There was this one particular sequence that comes in the first episode of the show. It is a chase sequence on the streets of Delhi culminating onto a bridge. So, besides shooting on the Delhi streets we also had to lock down a particular bridge there for two days and it was a very difficult thing to do logistically too, we didn’t get permissions. Because shooting somewhere meant, the entire bridge had to be locked and no movement of any sort could be allowed. We wanted to find a bridge like the one we saw in Delhi. For that, we looked high and low, throughout the length and breadth of the country. We looked in Allahabad, we looked someplace else in Delhi and finally, we found it in Ahmedabad. And when we found it, it was the month of May and we are talking about 45 degrees heat, people fainted on the set, we had 200 plus cast members, there was chaos, vehicles because the scene needed to look alive.”
He went on to say that the movement of the commuters was not hindered because, “While the roads were blocked, there were some roads that the authorities opened up. However, with the bridge that wasn’t possible because you have to lock the entire bridge to shoot.