Sonal Sehgal's multinational film wins half a dozen awards

- The hard work of the actress and her artist-craftsmen. The film, which has been at film festivals for the last six months, has bagged seven awards. It is worth noting here that Sonal is a theater, TV. And has contributed to various mediums such as films.

The actress was overjoyed when Sonal Sehgal's Indo-Latvian surgeon 'Mani' performed in Florence's 200-year-old La Copagnia Theater in mid-May, in front of 80 per cent of the audience, following the rules of Kovid-18. Sonal was always on the lookout for Hollywood and local mainstream cinema. Such a response from the actress was also natural. Sonal was devastated to see a small budget presentation like Psychological Science-Fiction. "I was ready to go there in advance and be quarantined," he said. But so far air travel from India is banned.

However, the actress-filmmaker joined online for a quiz after the release of her film. Sonal, meanwhile, was overjoyed when a viewer praised him for the film. Because she is also the author of this film.

The movie actually revolves around a writer and a homosexual. This role is played by Sonal herself. Sonal went to Latvia to work on this autobiographical novel. The film weaves three love interests (real, fictional, virtual male and female and artificial intelligence).

The film focuses on the extent to which humans today rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI) not only physically but also emotionally. Sonal says she once wanted to buy shoes online, but didn't. However, Shoes' ads started appearing on her Facebook, Instagram and other social media accounts. In addition, the virtual voice-based assistant AI technology 'Alexa' was also his inspiration.

Sonal says that once we were talking he called someone 'bastard'. At that moment, Alexa immediately said, "This is not a good thing." The word 'Alexa' is inappropriate during someone else's conversation. It must have been realized. That's why he responded to the word 'bastard'. But I was shocked to hear this response. It was then that the idea came to me that I would develop this issue in film form.

Sonal was thumping to make this film on this issue. But in Mumbai, he received a resounding response, contacting other like-minded people, including Latvian filmmaker Des Pius, who was Sonal's classmate at the New York Film School. He agreed to invest in the film as well as co-direct Sonal. Crystal collaborated with Puden and line producer Renate Barrow in the production of the film.

Finally, a 15-day workshop was organized for the film by selecting multinational artists. Then in the year 2012, shooting of the film started in Latvia. The film was made between December 2013 and January 2020. Its main actor is Russian. But he has spent a lot of time in India. The actress says the entire film's post-production work was done online due to Corona.

For that, files were sent online from one country to another. The files were downloaded at night and checked in the morning. From three in the afternoon to seven in the evening we would have discussions in the virtual office. At one point, things that seemed impossible to me became possible. And my three months of last year's lockdown went by in a jiffy.

The hard work of the actress and her cast. The film, which has been at film festivals for the last six months, has bagged seven awards. It is worth noting here that Sonal is a theater, TV. And has contributed to various mediums such as films. In addition to directing a short film, he has also written a book.

"I used to tell my mom when I was little that I would grow up to be Charlie Chaplin," Sonal joked about how he could do so much at once. My mom reminded me of this when I was growing up. However, he immediately became serious and said that he had written two scripts related to science fiction as well as road trips. But given the current circumstances it is difficult to say whether it will happen this year. I don't want these films to be eclipsed by lockdown.