My son has made 5 films: Vishal Bharadwaj

Director Vishal Bharadwaj was seen sharing tips on filmmaking with young kids on Friday at the ongoing 17th International Children’s Film Festival, something that he really enjoys doing.
Watching kids embroiled in discussions over their first stint behind the cameras, Vishal was so impressed that he personally congratulated the little directors, saying, “Please take my e-mail ID, I want to watch your films and stay in touch with all of you henceforth.”
So touched was he by the children’s passion for cinema that he could not stop raving about them.“They are so knowledgeable. I don’t think I knew as much when I was their age. That’s the advantage today’s generation has, you know. The Internet and other technological advancements has opened a wide world to them. They are exposed to so much and they are very quick to learn too. I am really glad that kids as young as a 12 years old are attempting to make a film these days. It is truly laudable. Even my son has already made five films and he is just 16,” says a proud Vishal.
From “Makdee”, “Maqbool”, “Omkara”, to “Kaminey” and “7 Khoon Maaf”, Vishal has always been a hatke director when it comes to choosing his subjects. “I choose whatever I find interest in. I feel if it interests me, I will present it in a way that it will interest the audience also.”
Ask him what went wrong with “7 Khoon Maaf” then and he is quick to say, “It is a dark film and I think it didn’t touch the chord with the viewers. I definitely believed in it and that’s why I made it. But somewhere people couldn’t relate to Priyanka. I mean I thought after two killings, audience will understand that she (Priyanka) has become a serial killer but they didn’t. That, I guess, went wrong.”
So, after “7 Khoon Maaf”, does he have any apprehensions about “Dayaan”, a supernatural film. “I am producing it. And, no, I don’t really have apprehension because the concept of witches did exist in our society. Moreover, people will get to see a real dayaan, and not like what Shabana Azmi played in “Makdee”. Next, I want to make a science fiction.”
One of the first projects that brought Vishal to limelight was TV serial “Jungle Book”, but the small screen isn’t something that Vishal wants to get back to. “Yes, I did start with “Jungle Book” on TV, but budget is a problem with the small screen. It is too low. So, I am not looking at TV.”