Director Tigmanshu Dhulia, whose film Raag Desh is about the Indian National Army (INA) trials, says that a film on such a subject is not always possible in the industry as producers will send him back if he approaches them with it.
“Doing a subject like this is not possible in this industry. If I go to a producer and say that I want to make a film on Indian National Army, that person will send me back home,” Mr. Dhulia said here.
“I have been a student of History and graduated from Allahabad University... Judiciary runs in my blood, so I knew about INA trials since childhood. When Sapal sahib (producer Gurdeep Singh Sapal) met me in Delhi, I jumped at the project and said that only I would do it, no one else would be able to do it.
“If Indian National Army wouldn’t have been there, perhaps we wouldn’t have got independence in 1947,” Dhulia said.
The film’s plot revolves around the joint court martial of Col. Prem Sahgal, Col. Gurubaksh Singh Dhillon and Maj. Gen. Shahnawaz Khan. The characters in the film will be played by Mohit Marwah, Amit Sadh and Kunal Kapoor respectively.
—IANS
