“What are human beings? Just different colored tokens on the board of life,” says the narrator of Ludo, who happens to be the film’s writer-director Anurag Basu. In his latest anthology with a twist of dark humour, Basu weaves in four stories using the metaphor of the board game in which a roll of the dice can affect the blue, red, yellow and green quadrants.
The director of Life…In A Metro (2007), Barfi! (2012) and Jagga Jasoos (2017) shared his insights into the colour-coded world of his latest feature, which will be streamed on Netflix on November 12.
Filmmaker Anurag Basu is geared up for the release of his upcoming multi starrer film Ludo, and he has a quirky anecdote on how he finalised the title of the film.
“Throughout my last film ‘Jagga Jasoos’, we would play ludo on the set. Actually, not just on the set but even during long drives the game of ludo never ended. This film is similarly a story of four different journeys coming together, so the name ‘Ludo’ fell in place,” said the director.
On how he decided to make the film, Basu added: “Before we started ‘Ludo’, I had four to five scripts ready and I had to make the difficult choice of which one to go ahead with. Tani (his wife) and (composer) Pritam da pushed me towards this script and that’s how it came together.”
The film is a dark comedy anthology starring Abhishek A. Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Rohit Saraf, Pearle Maaney, Pankaj Tripathi, Asha Negi, Shalini Vats and Inayat Verma.
