Be it a complicated inter-twined story of urban life in a film like ‘Life in a… Metro’, taking us through nooks and corners of Singapore in ‘Gangster’ or even taking the audience through the beautiful hill-station of Darjeeling in one of his most successful films ‘Barfi!’, Anurag Basu is one of those filmmakers who always tries to treat his story like a painting unfolding on big-screen.
As the conversation around screen size and cinema changed in the post-pandemic era, the filmmaker says even though the process of learning and unlearning continues in his mind to stay relevant with time, he finds it romantic to visualise a story to be watched on the 70mm screen.
His film ‘Ludo’ has been selected to be screened at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), keeping the pandemic in mind, from August 15 till August 30, all films will be screened virtually as well.
