Niren Bhatt

Niren Bhatt reinterpreted an original short story of Satyajit Roy for the screen adaptation “Spotlight”, one of the segments of the recent anthology, “Ray”, starring Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor and Radhika Madan. “I think one of the common feedback we got for ‘Spotlight’ is this could have been an original story. It is true that in the screen adaptation I have changed a lot of elements, and have taken creative liberty, but I think that is how creative interpretation should be. The core of the original story was the meeting between a filmstar and a spiritual guru, eventually who turned out…

Writer Niren Bhatt wrote two stories — “Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa” and “Spotlight” — in the anthology “Ray”, which was based on short stories of iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Bhatt says he had initially visualised late actor Irrfan Khan in the role of Musafir in “Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa”. Eventually, Manoj Bajpayee played the character. The segment “Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa” is based on the short story “Barin Bhowmik-er Byaram”, and it features Gajraj Rao, Raghubir Yadav and Manoj Phawa along with Bajpayee. “It is a little sensitive thing and I am opening my heart here. I want to be…