Writing was a thankless job within the Hindi movie business a couple of years in the past as all of the credit score for a movie’s success used to go to the actors or the director. The quantity of hardship and sleepless nights a author spends in making a story was by no means acknowledged. However, with extra content material pushed now being made, writers are additionally getting their due. One such author who’s being vastly admired today is Chandan Kumar, who has penned down the Amazon web series Panchayat.
After the stupendous success of season 2 of the present, many have been desirous to know in regards to the man who wrote such an attention-grabbing script with such vibrant characters. Indianexpress.com caught up with Chandan to know what went behind the conceptualisation of Panchayat.
“TVF wanted to create a show with rural India in the centre. We live in urban India. But what happens when a man from a cosmopolitan city is made to live in a village. So an urban guy in a rural set up was the idea. What challenges he faces and how he deals with them. His challenges should be real but it should come across in a humorous and entertaining way. That was how we thought of Panchayat. Real people with real drama,” mentioned Chandan.
Chandan believes his private expertise of residing in a village helped him etch out the characters so properly. “See when you are familiar with that world, it becomes easy for you to write about it. Me being from Patna used to visit my village Paliganj often. The memory of people there is still in my mind. And most of the anecdotes that you see in Panchayat like the funny discussion between Banrakas and Binod or between Prahlad, Pradhan ji and Vikas are from my own experience,” mentioned the author including that “we made sure the casting should be perfect.”
Talking additional in regards to the story of Panchayat, Chandan mentioned it additionally offers with the actual subject within the society. “You see the culture of Pradhanpati where the husband of a woman Pradhan holding the real power is still prevalent. And it’s not just restricted to villages. It happens in cities too. So we wanted to highlight those realities. My director Deepak Mishra and I had the concept clear. He also comes from Varanasi and he too understands the ground reality well. So it came easy to us.”
Born in Patna, Chandan accomplished his engineering from Dehradun. But it was his ardour for writing that made him give up his engineering job and turn into a author at Faking News, a satirical portal. Talking about his journey from Patna to Mumbai, Chandan mentioned, “My ardour to put in writing introduced me right here. I wished to do one thing completely different. I knew of the battle folks face within the leisure business in Mumbai so I didn’t give up my job. In 2015, I joined TVF and wrote sketches for a few of their movies. I bought an opportunity to put in writing the second episode of Humorously Yours. It was appreciated after which Panchayat occurred.“
Talking about writers not getting the popularity and remuneration as actors get, Chandan mentioned “things are improving now”. “See writing is very subjective. If a show or a film that you have written becomes a hit, you are flooded with offers. But since writing is different from other jobm you have to be selective also. Talking about financial security of actors, again as I said things have changed now. It’s not that you are now remunerated well. If you write decently, you will have a job.”
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