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Sudhir Mishra says showing the poor in Serious Men as 'crawling, earnest' wasn't what he wanted to do
Firstpost“That’s the bad art film you drink wine and discuss at film festivals,” Serious Men director Sudhir Mishra said of films that show the poor without agency Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra was clear when he set out to adapt Manu Joseph’s Serious Men for the screen that he would not mould its protagonist in a poor-man stereotype, giving the character agency as well shades of grey. Adapted from the author’s 2010 novel, Serious Men chronicles the story of an ambitious underachiever Ayyan Mani, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who capitalises on his son’s newfound fame as a boy-genius Adi to improve his family’s fortunes. It’s a form of cowardice not to give the poor this agency.” Over the years, Mishra has chronicled stories with sociopolitical backdrop successfully in films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli. With Serious Men, Mishra said he didn’t want to make a film which would ignite a discussion among the privileged only because the poor were viewed with sympathy and not as equal, flawed beings.
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