I am always very comfortable when intelligent women are handling. I had someone like Sapna and Rajshri around. In this case, I had a director, for whom this was also experiential so, I trusted her vision,” he says, adding, “There was nothing overtly vulgar. Does that mean I’d never play a footballer in a film? Of course, I would. But, there are so many things that I don’t know about.like football. So when she came to me with the idea, I’ll be honest, I didn’t understand a lot of it. Sapna is someone I trust, and when you collaborate for a project like this, it becomes a very important factor. Jha, who has previously worked in an erotica film, Mastram (2020), says that being an actor gives you the opportunity to visit worlds that are otherwise unfamiliar to you. So, who really is in control here, and who is the power figure? These are important questions to examine even in relationships and life.”ĭeshpande and Bhavnani are seen wearing an identical pink wig in the film But, if you understand BDSM, the one who is submissive, also known as the sub, really enjoys all of that, while not doing any work. “A lot of people think if you are a dom, you are in-charge and in a position of power. “I have been a dominatrix before,” says Bhavnani.
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The movie has no dialogue, relying solely on the acting prowess of the cast, and the background score, which is haunting to say the least.īoth Jha and Deshpande admit they had no knowledge about the world that Bhavnani was trying to recreate. With My Dog is Sick, Bhavnani has also become the first Indian woman director to premiere her film at the New Horizons International Film Festival, held this month in Poland. That’s how I feel’.” The production team ended up creating this golden poop just for the film (from glitter and clay), and which she admits took three weeks to perfect, eventually becoming part of the teaser. “She said, ‘Because that’s how I feel Sapna.
“But, why golden?” Bhavnani remembers asking her. I have eaten, digested and thrown this boy out.’” ‘Phir main bahar jakar ek golden tatti loongi.
But, I won’t bite this man, I will eat him up.’ When she said this, everyone listening to us, including this boy, fell silent. Replied, ‘If a dog can love you unconditionally, it can bite you too. What would happen?’ Taking a few swigs of her drink, the woman But, you are like this dog, who feels only love. There was this young boy out there, and I said, ‘Imagine you are in love with this boy, and he is treating you like crap. I got so intrigued by her that I asked her if she’d role play for me, just for fun. “I was having my drink, when this older woman came up to me, and said, ‘Hey! Can you see any guy out here, who I can pick up, and who is older than my 36-year-old son?’ She immediately had my attention. The idea, she admits, fell onto her lap, at a bar. But, this is just not sexual, as understood in the BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadochism and Masochism) subculture. The filmmaker explores the idea of dominance and submission in relationships. Not only is her cinematic language unlike anything we’ve been exposed to, the theme is also largely alien to the Indian audience.Īctors Rajshri Deshpande and Anshuman Jha play a couple traversing isolation
Renowned Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas who found it to be a “radicalising experience”, said it could “superficially be described as a feminist experimental horror film”. The film travelled to 21 festivals and won nine awards. My Dog is Sick comes close on the heels of Sindhustan (2019), Bhavnani’s last feature-length documentary about the migration story of the Sindhi community told through her own familial history and the tattoos on her body. I think that’s because Sapna has been through so much, and all those experiences shine through in whatever she does, even her home,” Deshpande feels. At one point, I had this feeling of being surrounded by hundreds of people, when there was nobody really. Every object in her home, be it the bed, her side table, or cupboard, relayed an emotion. “It felt like Anshuman and I were playing in her house. The two actors play the couple in Bhavnani’s new outing as filmmaker titled, My Dog is Sick (64 minutes). “Sapna’s house was a character in the film,” feels Rajshri Deshpande, who has joined us for the video chat along with Anshuman Jha. Barely 12 hours ago, we’d been in this same room, but in a film, watching two lovers traverse isolation-the kind many of us experienced during the Coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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