We rely on outdated, trade-driven data in making movies: Hansal Mehta

Industry needs to invest in writers, by paying them and in helping them evolve: Filmmaker

The success of Scoop, on Netflix, has once again put the limelight on Hansal Mehta, who also made Scam 1992, the 2020 show that revived SonyLIV, the Sony Pictures India-owned streaming platform. Last month, Netflix signed a multi-year, multi-series partnership with Mehta.

In a conversation with the filmmaker, Vanita Kohli-Khandekar finds out that the man earlier known for making award-winning movies that did not always run has found liberation—creative as well as commercial—on streaming platforms. Feeling vindicated, Mehta says it is the quest for mass success that is destroying storytelling in movies. Edited excerpts.

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