![]() ![]() Though I haven’t done any serious work for about a year, but who knows when I do and have a series. While he keeps writing and making films, the painter in him has taken a backseat for a moment. Meeting and interviewing former drug users who are in rehabilitation centres, he has made interesting observations: “Peer pressure, lots of free time, easy money and availability, and lack of direction has led many to addiction.” He believes this insider view would become the content for his films in the future. He is working on a 10-film series on drug addiction with Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and University of California, Berkley. It was such a great compliment.”Īpart from the musical, Gurvinder is also doing lots of non-fiction work. When he saw, he said, ‘with this I got to know the difference between cinema and literature’. “Before Gurdial ji saw the film, it had already won awards. Not that he wasn’t conscious of how Gurdial Singh would view his work. One can take inspiration from a book for a film, which is a completely different medium but it should do justice to cinema,” he shares. “I am a storyteller and my language is cinema. It’s not easy to win purist readers with cinematic adaptation of a book, but, interestingly, Gurvinder isn’t even aiming at that. His first was a documentary, Pala, which was based on folk artistes in Punjab, and then came along Anhe Ghore Da Daan and Chauthi Koot. I chose Punjabi to be the language of my work, I had never explored the land in person.” If I knew very little about Punjab, I knew nothing about UP as well. Post FTII, I realised that ethnicity and anthropology were the setting for cinema. The screening of the films have been organised by Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi. While he is not divulging the name as yet, Gurvinder is happy bringing two of his films to Chandigarh, which he now calls home. ![]() Interestingly, this singer is not one of the many that have turned actors in Pollywood, but a female! Gurvinder has now turned a leaf and is going to make a film on the story that he has written – a musical that trails the life of a Punjabi singer. While Anhe Ghore Da Daan is based on Gurdial Singh’s book by the same name, Chauthi Koot has been adapted from Waryam Singh Sandhu’s short stories. ![]() He gained experience, and then made films, including Anhe Ghore Da Daan (2011) and Chauthi Koot (2014), among others. From a feeling of rootlessness to getting back to his roots, Gurvinder Singh was happy to be in Punjab after his days at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. ![]()
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