Filmmaker Bedabrata Pain, a former award-winning NASA scientist, whose first film 'Chittagong' won the national award as a debutant director, believes Hindi films are suffering from a dearth of talent and new ideas.
He said that the standard of Hindi films is poor as compared to US or Iranian movies and felt that "a simple film with a good script can earn us international accolades".
He pointed out that filmmaking required dedication and honesty and it should come from the heart.
One of the inventors of CMOS digital image censor technology which brought about the digital camera revolution, Pain said the public relation people in the Hindi film industry were responsible for not correctly selling films based on simple and good ideas to the audience.
Recollecting the experience about his debut film 'Chittagong', which is based on the Chittagong uprising of 1930, Pain admitted that it was a difficult journey for him in overcoming the odds including the 2008 severe recession.
"When several producers decided to stop work amidst recession in 2008, I had continued with making 'Chittagong' which I completed in 2010 with the money I had earned as royalty for my work on CMOS digital imaging technology," Pain said.
The director was interacting with the audience at the Jamshedpur Film Festival organized by the city-based film society "Celluloid Chapter".
Pain, who was born here, said he was happy at being able to screen his movie in his birth place and added he had put in a lot of thoughts to make the film for which he even hired a script consultant.
