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Naseeruddin Shah bats for realistic cinema

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Posted: Jan 12, 2009 at 0052 hrs IST

Pune “Realistic cinema, which neither belongs to the normal commercial pot boilers genre nor to the 'art' or 'parallel' genus, has arrived in India and is here to stay. With the overwhelming response, movies like Barah Anna have received an immense response at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF),” said Naseeruddin Shah addressing a news conference at the Deccan Rendezvous Hotel on Sunday.

Shah also plays a role in the movie Barah Anna, directed by Raja Menon. The movie revolves round the lives of three men, a driver, a watchman and a waiter and the comic capers that they get into.

Says director Raja Menon “The characters are very believable for the simple reason that they all portray an abstract quality that we associate with the common man. As a result of their quirkiness they look very real and very believable. The film on the whole was the effort of many people. Right from the entire cast to the whole crew and the producers who believed in the script."

Speaking on the movie Naseeruddin said, “the important part about movies like this is that the language used in the movie in not chaste Hindi or English but local spoken lingo which makes it very real. As a result of it, it brings a freshness to the film. Luckily for us we were cheered during the screening of the film at the PIFF.”

He also spoke about removing this artificial divide between different genres of cinemas, and the tendency of people to slot actors and typecast them. He said that films were neither a medium of education or learning but they were meant to be a record of the times that people lived in.

The English version of the movie will be titled Short Changed. The movie is slated to be released commercially somewhere in the middle of March. The movie stars, Naseeruddin hah, Vijay Raaz, Arjun Mathur in pivotal roles.

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