Name Calling

“After being selected for a top job at the local coal mine,Mohandas is shocked to see that someone is working under his name. The idea is based on a real life occurrence which a close friend narrated to me on one of his visits to MP in 2005,” says Kamran,45.

He has pooled in contemporary elements and satire to create a gripping thriller. “I concentrated on giving an impression of the rugged rural landscape,” says Kamran,who completed filming after a 35-day shoot from July 2007 in the Sonbhadra district of MP. “I did not want a plastic feel of a village and preferred real locations. I could draw on my familiarity of the terrain from my shooting assignments region years ago,” he adds. The film will release in multiplexes on July 10.

Even when Kamran was roped in Ram Gopal Varma in Satya,he harboured dreams of directing films. “I wanted to master what happens on the shooting floor before getting into direction. That has helped me get a perspective in making films since nobody can teach you how to direct a film,” says this graduate of FTII,Pune. Some of the tautness of Mohandas also comes from Kamran’s five-year-long experience with documenting short films for teleserials like Turning Point and a 25-minute bio-pic on the life of writer Qurratulain Hyder.