Aanand L Rai on the characters of Dhanush and Kriti Sanon in Tere Ishk Mein, "They are not consistent in their behaviour. They are not even trustworthy"

Aanand L Rai is not into beating his own drums. “Success, good, failure, even better. What is there to say?” he asked me shyly when I called to congratulate him.

 

Aanand L Rai on the characters of Dhanush and Kriti Sanon in Tere Ishk Mein, "They are not consistent in their behaviour. They are not even trustworthy"

 

Tere Ishk Mein drew almost unanimous flak for portraying love so dark, messy and, yes, bleeding. There is so much blood coming out of Kriti Sanon’s Mukti’s every pore, in the last half an hour.

 

Aanand humbly agreed, “I know it is messy, and I was aware that audiences may get put off by the last hour. But tell me, aren’t life and relationships like that? Messy? Our cinema tends to sanitise, clean out relationships. Leave out the mess. I don’t mind keeping it messy… even at the risk of seeming confused. But the conflicts are also a part of my DNA as a filmmaker.”

 

Tere Ishk Mein is being questioned for the two protagonist’s erratic behaviour. Aanand is unapologetic. “Yeh dono aise hi hain (these two are like that). Shankar and Mukti are mixed up and foggy in their heads. They are not consistent in their behaviour. They are not even trustworthy. You wouldn’t ask either Shankar or Mukti to babysit your child. They are what they are, take it or leave it.”

 

Luckily for Aanand , audiences have chosen to accept the film’s protagonist with their flaws.

 

“I firmly believe it’s the flaws that make us who we are. What would we be if we were all perfect human beings? That would make a very boring world. I cannot tell you how hard we have worked on the film: Dhanush, Kriti Sanon, Prakash Raj, Tota Roy Chowdhury my writers Himanshu Sharma and Neeraj Yadav, the cinematographers Tushar Kanti Ray and Vishal Sinha, A R Rahman Sir… all of us have given our blood sweat and tears. And then we are put in the middle of these cross currents…ek teraf logon ka pyar doosre teraf critics ki gaaliyan…,” Aanand trailed off.

 

He owns all the mistakes in the film, as much its virtues. “You say you loved the sequence when Kriti comes to Dhanush and his father’s hovel and the father offers her dinner. Believe me, that sequence for me was the entire film. Poori film ek teraf, yeh wala sequence ek teraf. I know where I have scored and where I have gone wrong. The audience knows it too. The audience has accepted Tere Ishk Mein with all its flaws. I cannot be more grateful. My film doesn’t need any other validation.”

 

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