Vishal Bhardwaj on turning to thrillers with Charlie Chopra, Khufiya: ‘Wanted to direct one long before I wrote Talvar’
1 year, 5 months ago

Vishal Bhardwaj on turning to thrillers with Charlie Chopra, Khufiya: ‘Wanted to direct one long before I wrote Talvar’

Hindustan Times  

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley and Khufiya are not the first time Vishal Bhardwaj is adapting text to screen. Vishal Bhardwaj has directed two new thriller titles In an exclusive interview, the filmmaker discusses his long-pending desire to helm spy thrillers and whodunnits, making every adaptation his own, and designing the soundscape of the Vishal Bhardwaj thriller: Your journey with murder mysteries started with co-writing Meghna Gulzar's Talvar, based on the Aarushi Talwar murder case. But is adapting an Indian text in the case of Khufiya easier than adapting a British text like in the case of Charlie Chopra? Do women-led titles like Charlie Chopra and Khufiya provide ample scope for creating music with female voices like Sunidhi Chauhan and Rekha Bhardwaj?

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‘Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley’ series review: An elementary whodunit
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley’ series review: An elementary whodunit

The Hindu  

Embarking on his first Agatha Christie adaptation, director Vishal Bhardwaj has skipped the usual suspects — and detectives — and settled on The Sittaford Mystery, a shivery, snowbound story from 1931. Bhardwaj takes a different, slightly arthouse route to this trend: in addition to the entire Shah family — Vivaan, Naseer, Ratna Pathak, Imaad, Heeba — we get Lara Dutta …

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley review: Vishal Bhardwaj's whodunit ensemble is pulpy and perceptive
1 year, 5 months ago

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley review: Vishal Bhardwaj's whodunit ensemble is pulpy and perceptive

Hindustan Times  

Give Vishal Bhardwaj any text and he'll infuse into it a life of its own. Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley review: A great new whodunit from the mind of Vishal Bharadwaj. Agatha's novel also started with a table-turning session, but the theatrical quality of the scene in Charlie Chopra makes it amply clear that it's not a …

Wamiqa Gabbi says Vishal Bhardwaj's shelved project helped her bag 'Jubilee'
1 year, 6 months ago

Wamiqa Gabbi says Vishal Bhardwaj's shelved project helped her bag 'Jubilee'

India Today  

Wamiqa Gabbi is collaborating with director Vishal Bhardwaj for the third time for ‘Charlie Chopra and the Mystery of Solang Valley’. In an exclusive interview, the two talented stars revealed that they were supposed to work together in 2019 for another Vishal Bhardwaj project, ‘Midnight’s Children’. WAMIQA ON SHELVED PROJECTS AND NOT GETTING THE DUE During an exclusive interview with …

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