Rajat Kapoor: Marketing independent films is tougher than making them

To observe a couple’s wedding anniversary, a clump of friends get unneurotic astatine an aged bungalow, and 1 amongst them gets murdered successful the dormant of the night. As immoderate different murder-mystery, everyone is simply a suspect. But this not immoderate different murder-mystery. Directed by Rajat Kapoor, known for his off-beat storytelling of the oddly specific, Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa unfolds much similar an immersive talkie than a stylistic genre piece. Named ironically aft the assertive execution victim, Sohrab Handa (Vinay Pathak), the movie is simply a intelligence survey of a bully that helium is. However, Handa is riddled with complexities, arsenic the movie besides gives abstraction for a softer broadside to him. “For me, radical are not achromatic and white. Everyone is simply a small grey. Nobody is conscionable 1 thing. I tried to find a shaded quality being successful each this,” says the actor-filmmaker.

Sohrab Handa is played with assurance by Vinay Pathak, a long-time person and collaborator of Kapoor, having worked with him successful films and plays. Pathak says that helium didn’t person to conflict overmuch to embody Handa. “Rajat kept the quality truthful cerebral and straight-forward that I didn’t person to bring my ain imaginativeness to recognize his mind. You cognize what benignant of a idiosyncratic helium is conscionable by speechmaking his lines,” says Pathak.