Mumbai, Feb 03: Ashvin Kumar, whose film 'Little Terrorist' has been nominated for the Oscars in the short film category, today said there were many stories to be told but most of them are smothered under the monopolistic umbrella of masala films.
"India is like a mine full of stories, but the real stories all get lost in the mire of Bollywood masala," Ashvin, who was on a visit to the city told reporters here.
"I am not against Bollywood masala, in fact I myself have never ruled out the option of making a film that fell into the genre of a musical, but India has still so many stories to offer and films that could be made about it," he said.
Though currently based in London, Ashvin said that his stories like the 'Little Terrorist' would continue to be drawn from India. "In fact my next venture, 'Forest', is a horror thriller based in an Indian forest," he said.
"The forest has always intrigued me. There is so much of enigma that surrounds the Indian forest and I was keen to capture this mystery, to make people appreciate the forest and treasure our natural resources. However, the slow deforestation has pained me and I have decided to capture it," Ashvin, who will be shooting it in Kumaon, said.
"I do not want to make a serious-serious kind of film on the forest, who would want to watch it? But it will be packaged in the form of a thriller and slipped with messages on the environment and its degradation," he said.
On his film 'The Little Terrorist', he said the story was inspired by a real life incident. "I have always wanted to make a story on the India-Pakistan tension and what better way to tell the story than through the eyes of a child."
Bureau Report
