![]() The best of both worlds approach doesn’t usually work. You can either make your film pretty and escapist or regular and real. ![]() As a result, they’re less interested in recreating a space, more in appropriating it or cherry picking bits that look visually appealing and cinematic. These films are shot on locations, so the geographical spaces are real, but the people dealing with them – directors, writers, production designers, even actors – belong to the world of movies or, as it were, certain upscale parts of Mumbai. The small towns of these films, more often than not, are less real, more imagined. And that’s so because these films are marked by disconnect: between the real and make-believe, between life and cinema. ![]() Bollywood filmmakers backed by big production houses who set their films in small-town India often run into roadblocks.
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