With “All We Think about as Mild” having gained the Grand Prix at Cannes and later incomes Greatest Non-English Function Movie from a number of critics teams, together with the New York Movie Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation, author/director Payal Kapadia is already planning not solely her subsequent undertaking, however doubtlessly the undertaking after that, too. Talking in a current interview with Selection, the Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker teased her future plans now that the movie has positioned such a highlight on her.
“I began writing my subsequent film, and it’s additionally going to be a movie in Bombay,” mentioned Kapadia. “It’s a bit early, however I’m fascinated with doing two extra movies in Bombay, to have this type of a trilogy.”
Regardless of the success “All We Think about as Mild” has discovered, it was not chosen to be India’s Oscar submission for Greatest Worldwide Function Movie. As an alternative, its Oscar committee awarded this honor to a different female-directed movie, the comedy “Laapataa Girls” from Kiran Rao. Kapadia nor her movie had been damage by this transfer nevertheless, with the director telling IndieWire’s Vincent Perella final month she was simply pleased each movies have discovered such recognition.
“I simply suppose it’s actually nice that there are two movies from India which are doing this effectively, they usually’re each by ladies,” she mentioned on the 2024 Gotham Awards crimson carpet. “So it’s an amazing 12 months for us.”
She did, nevertheless, have a unique response to the criticism India’s Oscar committee head, Jahnu Barua, laid down on her movie, calling it “very poor technically.”
“I don’t know what he meant… perhaps I’ll meet him in the future and ask him,” Kapadia informed Selection.
Although she didn’t go into additional element on what audiences may count on from the subsequent installments of her supposed free trilogy, she did go into element in regard to her personal sensibilities and the way her work is formed.
“I like watching films the place I get very a lot absorbed into it, and the place it might take me into this dream-like feeling,” mentioned Kapadia. “And we had been making an attempt to do that with this film as effectively, with going from this very documentary feeling to one thing that’s extraordinarily dream-like and magic.”
“All We Think about as Mild” is presently in theaters from Janus/Sideshow.