Director Swaroop RSJ discusses ‘Mission Impossible’, the story of three children in search of a dreaded criminal

In 2014, three school children leave home from Patna in the hope of locating fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and winning a handsome reward from the Indian government. In New Delhi, the police traced the boys and sent them back home. At that time, aspiring filmmaker Swaroop RSJ was happy and curious about this news and started writing a crime comedy thriller. The story was put on hold when he started working on his first film. Agent Sai Srinivas Atreya with Naveen Polishetty, but he was keen to see it again. telugu movie Mission ImpossibleReleasing in theaters on April 1, is a fictional story inspired by three boys.

The trailer has attracted attention for its humor and pop culture references. The boys in the film – Raghupati, Raghav and Rajaram – call themselves RRR And indulge in jokes with actors Rishabh Shetty (in a cameo) and company who call themselves KGF, “When I wrote this, I never dreamed that my film would be released in theatres.” RRR And KGF2Swarup laughs.

Swarup sets the story of the film in Vadamalpeta near Tirupati with three boys as protagonists and Taapsee Pannu as an investigator. “Initially I had written a male detective, but I felt it had similarities with Naveen’s character. Agent… So I rewrote it as a female character and thought Taapsee would be ideal. With the work she has done in Hindi cinema over the years, I couldn’t believe whether she would agree to do a 45-minute role in my film.” However, Taapsee liked the story and agreed to come on board. This is his first Telugu film after three years of being a Tamil-Telugu bilingual. Game over,

the hardest part of Mission Impossible Three teenagers were selected. Swarup and his team auditioned around 400 children. “Many on-screen kids speak beyond their age. People who came for the audition also saw the popular dialogues of the film. I picked boys who still had that charming innocence,” says Swarup.

After a month of audition, he picked three boys – Harsh Roshan, Bhanu Prakash and Jayateertha Mollugu. Swaroop conducted a two-month workshop to ensure that the boys forget any filmy overtones and look at their characters anew.

The film went on floors in 2020 after the first lockdown; Shooting in a village ensured that they lived in a bio bubble. “The real challenge was when we resumed filming after the second wave. There were reports that children may be affected. 60 to 70 children are needed in a sequence. We noticed that the children wore masks all the time except in front of the camera and maintaining social distance. ,

Swarup remembers how children used to log in for online classes from 8 am to 9.30 am, after which the shooting would begin.

Agent… And Mission Impossible Shows Swarup’s fondness for crime and comedy scripts. “Thrillers, crime and comedy come naturally to me when writing.”

Agent… It was written in collaboration with Naveen Polishetty. While developing the screenplay, the two watched detective films to see how the plot developed. For Mission Impossible, Swarup had no reference point. “I didn’t want it to be a normal children’s film. It’s a fun film with kids as the protagonists. Raghupati is a movie buff, Raghav is an over-smart boy from the village and Rajaram is Masoom who wants to be a fast bowler. I also had to understand how the children of a village would behave in a big city.”

He shared the first draft with writer-directors Venkatesh Maha, Bharat Kamma and Vivek Athreya and took their feedback to take it forward.

The Nellore-bred Swaroop traded his corporate career for cinema in 2016. “My interest in cinema was growing and in 2012, I decided that when I take this step, it will be a one-way street. My intention is to make the stories of then and now authentic and fresh. ,

why spelling mishan, The clue lies in how one of the characters mispronounces the barber as ‘Barbar’ as shown in the trailer.