Business Podcast: 25 Years In Films As Director, Writer And Actor | Film Director Career In India

About this episode

How a filmmaker with 25 years in ad films, acting and streaming directed her first feature in 24 days with newcomers, and took it to festivals in Brazil, Kolkata, Jaipur and a people's choice award in Los Angeles. Nishanthi Evani, director of Impure, gives a behind-the-scenes look at a film director career in India and what it takes to make an independent film.

In this episode of Chaos To Clarity, Nishanthi shares how Impure happened: a bold script about a wedding called off because the bride is not a virgin, a producer who could not find a director, and the friends who turned up for her, from a star cinematographer who had promised fifteen years earlier to shoot her first film, to Annapurna Studios giving space free. Then the craft: why a film is 24 crafts, why most first scripts are flat, the ad that needed 65 takes for one line, and how editors make actors look good. For every indian entrepreneur, her leadership lesson from a set: nobody trusts the director until the job is done, and when it comes to being nice or being good, she chooses good.

She also dives into her standards, from Kurosawa to a lookbook that fixes the colour of every wall, why vision is what keeps a team sane, growing up in Chennai on two films every Saturday night and a summer of Chaplin, the secret film school applications after B.Com, the talk with her father, and her next film, an absurd political satire. A startup india story from the film industry: the job she waited 25 years to do, done her way.

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