loop wrap The German thriller comes 24 years after run lola run, starring Franca Potente as Lola. But the cast and director of the Hindi adaptation are confident of creating something new. In a video interview with his co-star and director, Taapsee Pannu, who was the first to join the project, says that half the battle was won when directors Akash Bhatia and Tahir Raj Bhasin came on board. Like run lola, loop wrap A woman (Pannu as Savi) races to raise money to save the life of her lover (Bhasin). So Savi has 80 minutes to navigate the many dead ends and three time-loops to raise ₹50 lakh.
Fortunately, 34-year-old Bhasin recalls the original style and cutting edge music from his college days and was excited to see it adapted for a contemporary Indian audience. Pannu, 34, was also particularly happy when she accepted the role as she anticipated casting the actor “difficult” to set aside her ego to work in a film with a female protagonist. However, this was not Bhasin’s first time in a female-centric film; His Bollywood breakthrough came as the antagonist opposite Rani Mukerji in the thriller Mardani (2014). Recently, he played the role of Sunil Gavaskar in Kabir Khan’s film ’83 (2021).
Bhatia: Doing it my way
It is Bhatia’s first feature film, but he has directed several episodes of the Prime series. inside edge And a music video. Pannu says she admires his approach to do something different from mainstream Hindi cinema. And while he preferred not to track the monitors on the sets, Pannu felt Bhatia’s energy when he saw the cameras moving dynamically. His style of filmmaking was hard to adapt to, but he believed he was making something that had never been seen before.
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- Given Lola’s iconic appearance, the team was under pressure to create a unique look for Savi. But in 2022, not only was Lola’s look dated, but Pannu also sported red hair. Manmarziyan, So it wasn’t easy for Bhatia and National Award-winning costume designer Indrakshi Patnaik – especially since 90% of the film sees characters in the same outfit. Pannu laughs and says that she is in movies again and again where she is stuck in the same outfit the whole time. She admits that she wanted to burn her clothes by the end of the shoot Game over, But he adds, “My pride doesn’t matter. I have to do more things than this, so be it”.
- As far as Bhasin’s Satya is concerned, his nose-pin not only reflects Satya’s bohemian approach to life, but is also a gender-bending assistant, and is a reflection of his non-judgmental attitude.
“You’re not competing with a film of that level. You’re trying to give it an homage, and you should do it in an honest way, while to yourself and everyone involved, it’s going to be a new By making the film as it is,” shares Bhatia.
game for anything
As they recount the scenes from the film, Pannu delivers an intimate scene where she and Bhasin are lying on a log by a crane in an open-air studio with several crew watching. “We knew, from that day forward, that we were going to do things we never imagined or were prepared for,” she says. “It’s just being thrown at us. After that, nothing felt weird about the intimacy, not even the camera, which was so close I could hit my head at it.” He jokes about it. tells how the weirdest person on the sets was cinematographer Yash Khanna who was constantly in heated scenes with the couple and between Savi and his father.
Akash Bhatia
loop A fast-paced, dynamic, exaggerated film, and playful in its craft. But for Pannu, Bhasin and Bhatia, creating intimate scenes shot over three days in a bungalow was the most beautiful part of the process. Compared to the original, Bhatia wanted the audience to be more invested in the couple’s “modern” relationship, which is at the heart of the film.
The intimate scenes are in stark contrast to the rest of the film, giving him room to show his vision of an equal relationship. For Bhasin, these moments helped slow down the frantic rhythm of the film, and relieved the actors from the constant physical demands of shooting.
Savi is a former athlete, so many hours of running every day exhausts Pannu. Luckily, she was training to play a runner. Rashmi Rocket, Bhasin goes on to say that for him, maintaining Satya’s anxious, hyperactive personality till the end of the day was taxing. That said, today, every new project for him feels like a pivotal moment. loop, “You are at a crossroads, and anything can happen.”
Loop Lapeta is streaming on Netflix from February 4.
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