{"id":6038,"date":"2016-04-22T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:19:21","slug":"neeraj-ghaywan-masaan-sacred-games-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=6038","title":{"rendered":"Neeraj Ghaywan: The Middle-Class Boy Who Breathed Life into Bollywood\u2019s Masaan and Sacred Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> pyre burns on the banks of the river Ganga. Flames flicker, forming a silhouette of a man standing with a long pole in his hands. He swatches unruffled and occasionally stabs at it with the pole. Sounds of bones crushing emanate, but the man stands there unmoved and watches the pyre burn to ashes. The man is Deepak (Vicky Kaushal) and he is from the Dom community, a stigmatized \u201clow-caste\u201d section of corpse-burners in Varanasi. We are watching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masaan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">visionary<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> behind this film was debutant director, Neeraj Ghaywan.\n\nThe 109-minute drama captures some pretty brutal truths of Indian society \u2013 sexual repression, intractable caste divides, and life on the barely genteel edge of poverty, intertwining into a tale of love, loss, and grief \u2013 a narrative quite <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unheard of in many mainstream Bollywood films.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masaan<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marked Ghaywan\u2019s personal journey to success<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 the film was screened at Cannes and went on to win many accolades at home and abroad. To be screened at Cannes is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remarkable<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where a film competes with about 7,000 odd entries from 250 different countries. It snapped up the prestigious FIPRESCI (International Federation Of Film Critics) award and the Prix de l\u2019Avenir at Cannes 2015, joining the small but proud list of other Indian winners, including Mira Nair\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salaam Bombay <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1988) and Ritesh Batra\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lunchbox <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2013)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">among others.\n\nHyderabad-bred Ghaywan\u2019s journey to Cannes is no less enchanting. He started life afresh at 30, after <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quitting his day job to follow his passion<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. From being a manager at UTV, he lugged lights and cameras and worked 4 am shifts, assisting Anurag Kashyap on his magnum opus <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gangs of Wasseypur <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2012)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Masaan<\/em> marked Neeraj Ghaywan\u2019s personal journey to success \u2013 the film was screened at Cannes and went on to win many accolades at home and abroad. <\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nJust like the characters in his films, Ghaywan too was brought up in a middle-class Indian family where \u2013 like most middle-class Indian families \u2013 success was measured by a professional degree and secure salary. Plus, he is the family\u2019s only son. To escape those pressures, he turned to films \u2013 a world he could disappear into whenever his became too stressful. The classics of Bimal Roy and Shyam Benegal that would play on Doordarshan every Sunday, were his early introductions to the diversity of our cinema.\n\nAfter graduating from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, he was hired by Tech Mahindra. But the cinephile inside him refused to die, and he started writing for the now defunct film blog Passionforcinema.com. The crowdsourced blog became the film school he never went to, where he would write reviews of his favourite films like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bandit Queen <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1994) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nadiya Ke Paar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1982). One thing led to another, and Ghaywan became close friends with Kashyap.\n\nGhaywan\u2019s corporate life, however, soon started to get to him. H<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e began <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doubting if he would ever be able to make his mark in the industry.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But eventually he decided to quit his job at UTV and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">follow his passion, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and started working with Kashyap on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gangs of Wasseypur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But this choice came at a cost, from earning \u20b916 lakh per annum at his corporate job, he was barely making \u20b92 lakh, and struggled to make ends meet. But he didn\u2019t lose hope and continued <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">working to achieve his dreams<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\n\nAnd finally his efforts paid off, when he shot to public notice with his short film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shor <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2011), a tale about a couple from Varanasi struggling in city lives. He also started working on his own script with Varun Grover in the meantime, which eventually became <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masaan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\n\nThe film, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unlike<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> most Bollywood outings, tackled the caste system in a small-town of Varanasi. Ghaywan tied together the various narrative skeins in the film with confidence and sensitivity. Varun Grover\u2019s philosophical lyrics elevated Ghaywan\u2019s simple storytelling, and deeply resonant songs by the band Indian Ocean added to the overall impact.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Neeraj Ghaywan has never shied away from sparking conversations and portraying harsh realities of our society on screen.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nAfter the success of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masaan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ghaywan was struck by what is called the \u201csecond film syndrome\u201d \u2013 the pressure to make as good a second feature. He was offered films by various studios, which he didn\u2019t want to do. But Ghaywan <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decided not to play by the rules,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and instead directed another short film titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juice <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2017). In an industry which places little value on short films, Ghaywan asked hard-hitting questions on internalised patriarchy and misogyny in a household set-up through his 14-minute short. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a snapshot of what every middle-class Indian home is like, where drunk men ramble about issues they know almost nothing about and women are expected to give up their careers to take care of the family.\n\nGhaywan has also directed many commercials. The Vicks commercial which he directed in 2017 spoke about a beautiful relationship between a transgender mother and her adopted daughter. The commercial sparked a conversation on the internet about the discrimination the trans community is often subjected to because of their misrepresentation on the screen.\n\nWhat makes Ghaywan\u2019s films <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">different and unique<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is that the characters in his films don\u2019t break into elaborate song and dance sequences set in exquisite foreign locations. His characters develop their own arcs, accompanied by poetic interludes that ease the transitions between drama, romance, and tragedy \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which has become his own distinct style.\n\nLast year, Vikramaditya Motwane offered Ghaywan the opportunity to take on from where he had ended with the storyline of Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Season 2. Ghaywan drew some criticism for a scene featuring a young Muslim boy getting lynched by a mob \u2013 some people even labelled it an \u201citem number\u201d and accused it of having no connection with the storyline. Still, it was a bold move, considering the severe controversies that plague independent filmmakers who choose to depict reality. And <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghaywan has never shied away from sparking conversations and portraying harsh realities of our society on screen.\n\nIn a Bollywood populated with big-budget over-the-top productions, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghaywan has always strived to make films which are backed by simple storytelling and have authentic character portrayals. Despite being an outsider, he has left a mark on the back of his own signature style.\n\n<b><i>If you have a story, Signature Masterclass has the stage for you, submit <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialgoat.in\/signature-masterclass-in?utm_source=Digital&#038;utm_medium=Arre&#038;utm_campaign=SMC_S04\"><b><i>your story <\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>t<\/i><\/b><b><i>oday and get a chance to see you story become a film. *Celebrate Responsibly<\/i><\/b>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award-winning filmmaker, Neeraj Ghaywan, quit a cushy corporate life and charted his own course at 30. 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