Nikhil Advani: Why are our heroes only cricketers and Bollywood stars?

- 'Why should we forget that doctors, nurses, social workers, employees of Mumbai Municipal Corporation have done amazing work when the lives of people were completely cut off due to the epidemic for one and a half to two years?'

Filmmaker, director and screenwriter Nikhil Advani has just returned from Estonia in Northern Europe a few days ago, where the shooting of his Wadeb series 'Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway' has begun. The series is based on a 2011 case. Where an organization called Norway Child Welfare Service interprets Indian cultural sensibilities in a big way, like children sleeping in bed with their parents. Or force to feed by hand. She felt that the mother was not fit to take care of her children. So they put five- and three-year-olds in the nursery.

Talking about the webseries, Nikhil Advani says, "My mother is shocked and the incident is so well told that director Ashima Chibber sent me the screenplay. I read it and I really liked it. I immediately sent the screenplay to my sister Monisha, who read it and called me to say that we were going to make the film. '

Did you meet Sagarika Chakraborty, the protagonist of this story? Rani Mukherjee plays the role of a traumatized mother in our film. Talked to him a lot in this regard. We have also made this film very imaginative and dramatic, as is clear from the title. Along with this we have also shaped another project, which is called 'Mumbai Diaries 9/11'. We had already completed the shooting of this web series before February 8, 2020.

An Italian man arrives in India on February 21 and travels through six districts of Rajasthan. He is admitted to the hospital with covid, then the matter goes on. I have been thinking about this series since 2012.

Speaking further, Nikhil Advani says that everyone knows the story of 'Mumbai Diaries 9/11', but in this web series, 10 terrorists infiltrate Mumbai. Fishermen's settlement, crossing various routes to reach Taj Mahal Rotel, VT railway station, firing on the way and killing many - all these incidents are covered.

"Why should we forget that doctors, nurses, social workers, Mumbai Municipal Corporation employees have done amazing work when the lives of the people were completely cut off due to the epidemic for a year and a half?" Saying this, Nikhil Advani says, 'The name of Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal is echoing from house to house today.

I'm also thinking of some science-drama series right now, including Rocket Boys, Homi Bhabhi, Vikram Sarabhai, APG Abdul Kalam, Indian space exploration and development contributors, I often don't know that our heroes are just cricketers and Bollywood Why are there only superstars? Why don't we talk or think about teachers, doctors, scientists? '

Commenting on the Bollywood film 'Belbottom', Nikhil Advani says, "First let the theaters open 100 per cent. I hope that after that people go to see the movie on the big screen. '

Referring to 'Satyamev Jayate-2', he said, 'The story of the film is to be told by writer-director Milan Javeri. Let them tell the story in their own way.

Speaking about the 'The Empire' web series, he said that Alex Rutherford's 'Empire of the Mughals' series is an anthology of six books, and the idea for the series is his. If I make a film on Babur's story from a 200 page book, he will be said to have done injustice.

Apart from this, Nikhil Advani is also thinking of another mega web series. It remains to be seen where and how far Nikhil Advani can go.