Hansal Mehta Talk’s About His Film Simran

Hansal Mehta talks about the stunning success of his recent show, Scam 1992. Hansal Mehta also revisits the scars of his film Simran and how that film was affected by his psychological state

Hansal Mehta has been a prolific filmmaker for the last 20 years. He makes films on social Issues like Shahid, Aligarh, Citylights, Omertà, and is now basking within the glory of his show, Scam 1992's staggering success. In one of his recent interviews, he talks about the series and also revisits the scars of Simran.

In one other recent interview, when asked about the show, Mehta said, "I've been an enormous fan of those sorts of dramas. I used to be excited to urge my hands on a project as complex as this. Oliver Stone's Wall Street is one of my favorite films. More recently, films just like the big gun and call, which was about the Lehman Brothers, topped my list. it is a phenomenal, underrated film."

He also stated in one of his interviews that, "As for TV shows, I really like Billions. what proportion are you able to understand that? But once you discover out more, it all starts making sense. He added, I realized that along the way, people pick the story up. you've got to be respectful and mindful of the audience's intelligence. sometimes I feel we dumb it right down to such an extent, it's disrespectful to the audience. once we were writing, it had been a conscious call to not disrespect them but instead explain it during a way that did not encounter as unnatural."

When he was asked about his 2017 film Simran and what was the impact of its failure, this is often what the filmmaker had to mention, "It was a painful time. Every day. Beyond that, it's difficult to talk about it. I do not even revisit it. There was a time after the film released, I went through a really low phase mentally. Took therapy. The film affected my psychological state. I went into a shell, I didn't want to satisfy people. I used to be during a period of very low self-esteem."

The filmmaker also stated in their interview that although he enjoyed Kangana Ranaut's company of the sets, something went wrong while the film was being made. He boldly stated that " It went out of my control completely. That's not a cheerful situation to be in. aside from handling the very fact that she completely took charge of the set and commenced directing other actors, I lost tons of cash too. Which had nothing to try to together with her. Financially it hit me badly. He further added that I used to be stupid enough to sign some papers when the film was stuck for a few reasons, which got me into a financial and legal tangle. So almost a year-and-a-half, there was arbitration happening in court. I've kind of emerged back."

The filmmaker is now collaborating with Rajkummar Rao once more for the sports-comedy Chhalaang that's ready to arrive on Amazon Prime Video on the eve of Diwali.