My Indian film will not be on slums: Karri
Indian-born American filmmaker Nagendra Karri, whose film Where are you Sophia? was part of the ongoing IFFI, finds working with Indian producers very unsettling. "The main problem is to find finance in India. Partly we are ourselves to be blamed as directors and producers. Indian producers borrow money from industrialists and invest in their own names. They will always find financiers from construction, oil and steel and give their own names as producer," said Karri in jest.
Of his movie Where are you Sophia?, Karri said it is the true story of a local newspaper columnist from the rural town of Highlands. "I have four projects in the pipeline and I would like to do a movie on an Indian subject. India has always been a mystery for lots of people around the world."
Of his proposed Indian movie, Karra said his project will not show any slums. "When you show New York, it is always skyscrapers and posh locations. You never show the dirty aspects there. So why does it have to be only slums when you relate the story in Mumbai?"
Karri felt that people do not look at India as a place where there is a lot of pain but as a country where there is a lot of healing.
