Mumba Devi Motion Pictures‘ newest characteristic “I’m Not an Actor” (“Predominant Actor Nahin Hoon”), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Chitrangada Satarupa, could have its world premiere on the 2025 Cinequest Movie Pageant in California this March.
The Hindi and English-language drama, directed by Aditya Kripalani, follows a pissed off however puritanical actor in Mumbai who spends a day instructing performing to a depressed just lately retired banker in Frankfurt over video calls. The movie was uniquely shot concurrently throughout India and Germany over 28 days, with each lead actors performing their scenes stay by way of video chat regardless of difficult climate circumstances and a 4.5-hour time distinction between places.
Kripalani selected this unconventional method to seize genuine video name interactions between the characters. “The movie has a dialog that runs by a single day throughout two nations on a video name. One way or the other in actual life when a dialog is occurring on a video name, if it’s intense, we nearly overlook {that a} display screen is concerned. And we aimed to make the identical occur by the conversations within the movie,” Kripalani defined. “To attain this, we shot either side concurrently. One group in Frankfurt and one group in Mumbai.”
“Labelling somebody makes us really feel comfortable as a result of it provides this false concept that we have now understood somebody; when it truly does precisely the opposite and creates partitions for us to then slowly and painstakingly scale,” added Kripalani, explaining the movie’s themes. “The movie takes a have a look at how our labels maintain us away from the core concept that human beings are at a a lot deeper stage, a lot alike.”
For Siddiqui, who additionally serves as a producer by way of his Aspect Hero Leisure, the position provided contemporary territory: “The concept of me enjoying a banker who learns performing was thrilling from the beginning. I’d by no means heard of a script like this,” the “Sacred Video games” star mentioned. “It appeared like the proper of script to return on board with. Specifically since Aditya has explored a lot in regards to the craft of performing within the movie.”
The bold manufacturing confronted distinctive challenges resulting from its intercontinental stay taking pictures method. “Whereas I used to be freezing at 2 levels [in Frankfurt], in India typically resulting from excessive warmth the cameras would overheat and we’d need to cease shoot for hours,” Siddiqui famous.
Satarupa, who shot her scenes in Mumbai, known as the expertise each demanding and fulfilling: “Balancing the logistical complexities whereas staying true to the character, and taking pictures within the intense Mumbai warmth at actual places – typically even guerrilla-style – was no straightforward feat.”
Following its world premiere, producer Sweta Chhabria confirmed plans for European, U.Okay. and Asian premieres for the movie, with goals for a restricted theatrical launch in India adopted by a streaming platform launch. Ranjan Singh (“Kennedy”) serves as affiliate producer.
“I’m Not an Actor” marks the most recent socially aware characteristic from Mumba Devi Movement Footage, following their Netpac Award-winning “Devi Aur Hero” (2019) and Fipresci Prize recipient “Not As we speak” (2021).
