“A fellow FTII filmmaker has raised a priority. She has each proper to lift a grievance. And I’ve respectfully held my fact. The declare has been made based mostly on assumptions, with out watching my short-fiction comedy movie. And I had no thought about her ‘unfinished’ documentary challenge. There’s a distinction between an allegation and a discovering. Aasmani got here from its personal world, its personal journey. And with none information of some other movie in growth. To see that distinction collapse right into a public narrative of ‘copyright infringement’ just isn’t solely deceptive, it’s deeply unfair to the movie and to everybody who has tirelessly labored on it. What has been troubling to look at is that this turn out to be a copyright difficulty when it completely isn’t one.”
The filmmaker continued, “Two movies can share a broad thought, theme, a girl, a automotive, growing older, independence, and exist independently, with out one being copied from the opposite. Copyright protects expression, not each shared thought or emotion. Sarcastically, this one expertise has taught me extra about copyright, than within the final 15 years. I’m not a big studio or an establishment standing throughout from an impartial filmmaker. I’m an impartial filmmaker myself. The seed of which was sown at my alma-mater, FTII. It’s due to this spirit we’re in a position to make movies in opposition to all odds. And precisely the rationale I’ve spent the higher a part of the final 15 years creating, collaborating, and championing impartial movies, at all times selecting story and intent over fame or cash.
“My movie is about freedom. And I consider freedom is the one factor value combating for. Freedom additionally means having empathy, holding house for one more individual’s standpoint. And everybody has the liberty to assume, query, assist, disagree, distinguish, and finally determine for themselves with out being instructed by the noise. There’s a distinction between talking loudly and talking the reality. The remainder belongs to information, course of and time.”
Written, directed, and co-produced by Gupta below her maiden banner, Sayani Gupta Motion pictures (SGM), Aasmani marks the actor’s formal transition into filmmaking. The quick movie options veteran actor Revathy within the lead, alongside Daria Bedi and Abhay Kaul.
