Shekhar Kapur Wonders If 'Simplicity Has Gone Out Of Films' Before Starting Masoom - The Next Generation; Here's Why

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filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has spoken about his journey from a MBA graduate to an acclaimed filmmaker in the entertainment industry while also remembering the making of his directional debut Masoon, a 1983 release, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Saeed Jaffrey in lead roles. Taking to his social media handle, Kapur remembered the shooting days, calling it 'beautiful happy days,' as he is now headed 'to make Masoom-the next generation.'

Shekhar Kapur had not read any book on filmmaking while...

Taking to his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, Shekhar Kapur has taken a moment to reminisce Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah 1983 film Masoon while also announcing its sequel. The acclaimed filmmaker also spoke at length about creativity which comes from within as his film Masoom earned praises after the release, all while he had no experience. The message read, "Those beautiful happy days when I was directing Masoom. Making that film was such a joy. For everyone. And that joy can still be seen in the film, even though it’s so long ago. Thats why today, all these years later, I cannot go anywhere without people coming to me and talking to me about Masoom. Most of them so young that they were not even born when the film released. They’ve seen it on TV / YouTube/ etc .."ALSO READ: Harshvardhan Rane To Star In Milap Zaveri's Next 'Massy' Film After Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat? Details Inside He further continued to write, "Now as I am heading to make Masoom-the next generation, I really want to recapture that sense of joy of film making .. but I worry .. I’ve just come back from an extensive trip in Mumbai and all my film maker friends speak of film making as a ‘task’ .. not as something joyful. Most talk about ‘interference’ from funding sources. I find that really surprising. Masoom was my first film. I had not assisted anyone, nor even read a book on film making .. I just wanted to tell a story, and told it as best as I could .. and as simply as I could .. And as honestly as I could .."The caption ended with, "Is it true that words like simplicity, joy, honesty , story telling has gone out of films in Mumbai ? Have the new systems of funding created a system that is anti-creative .. a system of interference by those that have come from (for example) MBA and management backgrounds .. ? .. by those that forget that true creativity comes from intuition. From Instinct. From a sense of individuality.. with large dollops of humility .. Well.. I am about to find out , aren’t I ? Hopefully Masoom-the next generation, will be made with the same sense of joy you see in the picture above .."

Masoom (1983) is an adaptation of the 1980 Erich Segal novel Man, Woman and Child, which was also adapted into a Malayalam movie Olangal and an American movie Man, Woman and Child.