Nandita Das says playing is much less demanding than management

Nandita Das says she loves to play and direct, but being behind the camera gives her a more creative flourishing.

Actress-filmmaker says management helps her to highlight her concerns and start conversations about various socio-political issues. 19659002] "It's less demanding than playing the direction, but if management requires a lot more time and challenges, it's also more fulfilling, both creatively and emotionally, but everyone has their merit and I do not feel any reason to choose how I would like to like to do both, "Nandita told PTI in an interview.
The critically acclaimed director, who directed films like "Firaaq" and "Manto", said that one should not be afraid to tell the stories he believes in.

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"For me, the art remains a way to an end.I am rather a traveler, so I do not feel the pressure to reach anywhere in particular.This presents the l & # 39; advantage of not being afraid of failure, at least in the conventional sense of the word

"If you have strong convictions and courage, things automatically follow. When I did 'Fire', I did not know if I would have a second film as an actor. Similarly, when I did "Firaaq", I did not know that I would stage a film, "she said.

Nandita will be featured in the new version of Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai? ", Directed by Soumitra Ranade, she describes this project as a" conceptual "remake, because the designers took only the germ.

" The film is quite the opinion of Soumitra on the way it sees the country of today and the distress of young people. I did it for nostalgia because the original was an iconic film. This is our homage and I did it for Soumitra, a longtime friend. "

When Nandita first saw the 1980 cult clbadic, she said she could understand Naseeruddin Shah's protagonist's anguish.

According to her, the film deals with Albert's pain, which probably represents many people in society.
Asked about the relevance of the new film, Nandita said that the common man's problems, from jobless poverty, still exist.

"The first" Albert Pinto … "was created at a critical moment in our history.It was the post-emergency era.The Jayaprakash Narayan movement had failed to providing a stable government at the center We were at a crossroads

"Today we are in a similar situation where politics and conversations have become so polarized. Divisive forces distract us from the real problems of unemployment, poverty and inequality. Anger reigns among the young, the farmers, the marginalized, and that's what underlies the film, "she said.

Nandita thinks that problems are not lacking today. to make us feel angry, but we should find ways to make the world a place of compbadion.

"I am sad to see that we have normalized the glaring inequalities and that the divisive powers polarize us even more in the name of nationality, religion, caste, clbad, bad, more.

"Finding productive means is a conscious choice if we want a more just and compbadionate world."
"Albert …" is a step in that direction. I think the audience will connect to his anger and this will trigger a deeper reflection on their own anguish and their willingness to change things for the better. "
The film is released on April 12.