Billed as "provocative and anti-romance", director Aadish Keluskar's "Jaoon Kahan Bata Ae Dil" has been one of the most talked about films at this year's MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and its producer, Vinay Mishra, says they want the audience to see it as it is and without any cuts.
The film chronicles a day in the life of a Mumbai couple, who have a conversation about everything- from relationships, movies, politics to sex but things take a turn in the end as the sun goes down.
"Jaoon Kahan Bata Ae Dil" doesn't hold back, neither in the usage of provocative language nor in the depiction of intimacy to draw home a larger point.
"It's going to be tough. We do of course want a lot of people to watch it. We will have to figure it out. We are not prepared for cuts. What will you cut, where? I don't think we have really thought about censor. I am convinced we will find some mechanism to get it out," Mishra said.
He was speaking at the screening of the film at the 20th edition of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star.
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Mishra, along with Preety Ali and Pallavi Rohatgi, has co-founded the banner Humaramovie, which has backed the film, and he said they can also look out for a digital release.
"Whether I have to self-release it on the Internet or get Netflix, we will figure out. This film is very massy but I don't know if masses can consume it because it assaults you. If that be the case, it needs to go out in all parts of the country, which is very difficult.
"It's not just an acceptability problem but something that perhaps we won't have the bandwidth unless somebody big comes up. I'd now like people to talk about it, have a conversation. Then we will figure out where and how to release it," he added.
The film throws a lot of names in its narratives, from film stars to political parties and even makes a commentary on censorship.
But Aadish, who won tremendous acclaim for his debut feature "Kaul A Calling", says self-censorship was never his aim.
"To me, self censorship is to censor something which is dishonest. Whatever I felt in the second draft was dishonest and so I cut it out. Whatever I didn't, it's all there," Aadish said.
The filmmaker said he wrote three drafts of the film in a month before finally locking the script for the talk-heavy film.
The film is competing in the India Gold category and has also been shortlisted for the Oxfam Award for Best Film On Gender Equality at the festival.
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