What Happened To Dibakar Banerjee’s Netflix Film? (image:facebook.com/DibakarBanerjee)
Dibakar Banerjee known for the films Khosla Ka Ghosla, Love Sex Aur Dhokha, and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! revealed how he is still stuck with the his last project, Tees. The movie, filmmaker”s latest is is facing challenges in terms of its release. Though the movie has been commissioned by Netflix, the platform is not releasing the project expressing its possibility of risk in impressing a larger audience.
In an interview with Unfiltered by Samdish, Dibakar Banerjee revealed how he is unable to move ahead from Tees. When asked why the film is not being released, Dibakar said, “It is best to ask them.” The director told the interviewer that though Netflix has commissioned it, it has been fully made, and streamers have bought it as well, streaming giant then told him that “We don”t know if this is the right time to release this film.” Besides, in an interview, Netflix said that the film didn”t fit their slate, he added.
“Now I am knocking on all doors, begging people to buy the film from Netflix. I am meeting people in India as well as abroad so that someone buys it from Netflix and releases it. I have not been able to move on from the film because I am entangled in it,” Dibakar Banerjee said.
Tees is about three generations of an Indian family, which begins in the 80s and ends in 2042, filmmaker said. The movie features Naseeruddin Shah, Manisha Koirala, Neeraj Kabi, Divya Dutta, Shashank Arora and Huma Qureshi, among others.
The director also said that he has made the movie for the audience who liked his film, Khosla Ka Ghosla. “Khosla is an uncle-pleaser, all the uncles love it,” he said. The similar portrayal worked in his Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar. The filmmaker points out that the uncle audience loves the idea of the “dictator,” and these are the same audience who agree with the death of Muslims and Adivasis in exchange for symbols of progress like a six-lane expressway.
As per the reports, Amazon Prime Video”s Tandav controversy, in the line of evoking communal disharmony, and registration of FIRs prompted streaming giant Netflix to abandon Dibakar Banerjee’s Tees, Anurag Kashyap’s Maximum City, and Vikramaditya Motwane”s Indi(r)a’s Emergency.
