Brahmastra: Ayan Mukerji shares his 10 years journey with the Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt starrer

Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra starring Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Amitabh Bachchan has to be one of the longest films to be in production in Hindi cinema. The film has lived quite a long journey but it’s all about to finally unfold in front of the audience this September 9. But to make that experience all the more engrossing, Ayan has been sharing the vision behind Brahmastra in new and unique ways, and today, the director shared a video where he spoke about how the film came into existence and where it all began.

 

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While the shooting of the film might have begun in 2016, the inception of the idea happened even 5 years prior to that. Ayan shared, “The journey of Brahmāstra began in 2011 on a writing trip in Shimla. My first feature film had released at that point and I was working on the script of my second movie.”

 

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He shared that his inspiration came from the mountains of the Himalayas. “I have always felt a very powerful energy, a strong spirituality in our Mountains. And I truly believe that it is from the energy of the Himalayas that the vision of Brahmāstra was born. From the start, that vision was to create a very new, amazing kind of world for our Indian audiences with Brahmāstra. A truly cinematic spectacle unlike anything that had been created out of the Indian film industry before. A mystical, epic, movie trilogy, made up of images that could only be created with the most modern technology, but a film whose soul was deeply inspired by our ancient Indian roots, our culture, our spirituality,” he insisted.

 

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However, Ayan also admitted that from the beginning he knew that what he was planning was way beyond the realm of possibility in Indian cinema by then. Something too far fetched for the time. “Even in its earliest form, Brahmāstra was a ridiculously ambitious idea. Nothing like it had ever been created out of India before. So there was no roadmap of how to do, what I wanted to do. I realized very early that the visual effects and the scale of movie I was imagining, was totally out of reach, beyond the limits of where technology and film budgets were capped at in India,” he said, adding that even after all that, he always believed in his vision and he knew that if he gets it right, the film will change the face of Indian cinema. “A film that our country would feel proud of!”

 

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Ayan noted that it has been a 10 year journey for him with the film, but he promised that all the wait will be worth it. He concluded, “When Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani released I was 29 years old, and now when Brahmāstra releases, I will be 39… But I truly believe that all this time and energy was needed to create a truly high-quality, once-in-a-lifetime experience for our audiences… with Brahmāstra!”

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