On
invitation of Filmi Box we got a chance to meet producer Dr. Sanjay Patole at
music release of his maiden film “Riwayat” based on shocking issue of female
foeticide. Film is releasing on 7th Sept all over. Here is a brief
chat with Dr. Sanjay Patole…….
Q
: What provoked you to produce this film ?
A
: First of all I would like to thanks Mr. Narendra Singh & Mr. Arshad
Siddique of Filmi Box as because of them I am able to release “Riwayat” in
India as I am settled in Australia, and by profession I am Professor of
neonatology at the University of Western Australia and my colleague Dr. Ajay
Rane is the founding Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at James Cook
University, Queensland, Australia, we both are motivated to preserve life one
as an obstetrician and the other as a neonatologist since last 25 years, we
have been saving many infants life in our entire carrier, I have even saved a
child who was just weighing 450 grams, by studies we came to know that about
100 million baby girls are missing from this world since 1984 - 40 million from
India alone, this provoked us to do
something on this issue, and we though cinema is the best media by which we can
pass on a message to save female foeticide because the practice of female
foeticide is still rampant judging by the falling female to male baby ratio in
India.
Q
: Why did you selected new actors
instead of stars ?
A
: Established actors are having a particular image, whereas new actors are not,
this was the main reason we took Samapika for main protagonist in film along
with Khalid Siddique, Salil Ankola, Achint Kaur, Sourabh Dubey, Aditya Lakhia,
Narendra Jha, Rajendra Gupta, Mangal Kenkre, Gauri Kulkarni, Major Vikram,
Rakhi Mishra, Tanya Tiwari & Sayaji Shinde in main roles. These actors can
justify their characters.
Q
: Your director Vijay Patkar is a well known comedian in Hindi & Marathi
cinemas, what made you to select him as your doctor ?
A
: I knew Vijay since many years, so I can understand that there is a serious
person behind his comic image, beside this he has made a hard hitting film in
Marathi film ‘Ek Unad Diwas’, so I was confident that he can give justice to
this film. Beside Vijay I have good technical team like dialogues by Imtiyaz
Hussein, music by Sushil Lalji. Songs are rendered by stalwart singers Shaan,
Kailash Kher, Shreya Ghoshal, and the legendary Jagjit Singh and lyrics are by
Sudhakar Sharma and Nusrat Badr. Cinematography is by Suresh Suvarna, art by Yunus
Pathan, sound Shrikant Kamble, and editing by Dinesh Mengade.
Q
: Do you think “Riwayat” will stop killing of female foeticide ?
A
: At least we are trying, I believe
audience will be forced to think on this, even Millennium Star Mr. Amitabh Bachchan expressed
his feelings in an event, where he said ‘how we can congratulate ourselves as a
superstar nation when we lose millions of female infants to foeticide’.
Recently, even Super Star Aamir Khan brought this issue in light in the very
first episode of his mega talk show ‘Satyamev Jayate’. Our film has achieved
worldwide recognition by winning 5 awards and 12 nominations in 12
international film festivals – an outstanding achievement for an unusual
commercial film that handles a serious social issue while still retaining all
the color, songs, and dances of Bollywood films.
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