Nikkhil Advani’s Mumbai Diaries is again and is getting praised for its portrayal of the 2005 Mumbai Floods. The collection continues a number of months after the occasions of the primary season, with the Bombay Basic Hospital workers going through a contemporary array of obstacles because of a day of relentless rainfall. Within the collection, you’ll as soon as once more see acquainted faces resembling Konkona Sen Sharma, Mohit Raina, Tina Desai, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satyajeet Dubey, Natasha Bharadwaj, Mrunmayee Deshpande, and Prakash Belawadi, all reprising their roles from the primary season. Moreover, the brand new season will introduce new forged members, together with Parambrata Chattopadhyay and Riddhi Dogra.
In an unique dialog with Filmfare, Mohit Raina, Tina Desai, Satyajeet Dubey, Natasha Bharadwaj and Mrunmayee Deshpande, share their expertise of working with Nikkhil Advani, capturing scenes in water, whereas additionally sharing insights about their characters.
This season is predicated on the 2005 Mumbai floods, are you able to share concerning the filming course of
Satyajeet Dubey: Because it was bodily so difficult we needed to be on our toes on a regular basis but it surely was nice. However there’s new studying, I’ve learnt how one can act underwater. I endure from sinus and thus confronted lots of issues performing these pictures however I assume that’s one thing it’s important to bear to get the job completed proper.
Mrunmayee Deshpande: I solely confronted the difficulty of studying the medical time period issues.
Mohit Raina: To start with I eliminated my specs and stored them within the bag, so I haven’t got to time and again wipe them. I’ve all the time stored one thing on high of my head, in order that I may converse. These are some issues that you simply study on the go however all and all it was a unique expertise for all of us. I additionally learnt there is no such thing as a use of sporting the footwear, in reality on the primary day I wore them I used to return out and dry them however then I realised what number of instances will I do that. and so I began sporting slippers.
Mrunmayee Deshpande: And you understand, Nikkhil sir took lengthy takes. When somebody is performing one surgical procedure, somebody is coming with new sufferers. So, it’s important to be in your mark on a regular basis. You have got to concentrate on what’s occurring round you and be prepared to provide your response on time.
What had been a few of your private prep work for this season?
Mrunmayee: Script was every part for me personally. See it’s important to carry out surgical procedures and the problem stage was elevated, so we needed to redo our medical workshops, we needed to keep in mind all of the medical phrases and we needed to get it proper.
Tina Desai: I had lots of stuff to do as a result of my character is pregnant on this season and so I needed to a) perceive what it is prefer to behave usually whereas being pregnant, b) how one can really feel the discomfort in a automotive, and in addition as a result of the observe continues with additional problems and what precisely goes on mentally? What goes on bodily? How does one transfer in such an surroundings? Fortunately, my neighbour who’s been by way of a really related state of affairs, so I used to be in a position to get, like, reside, actual, testimony of what can occur but in addition I wore the prosthetic stomach and I walked round the home simply to see the way it feels to take a seat and stand, and it is very creepy. As a result of it is made from silicon, it is actually uncomfortable and it sticks to your physique.
Mohit, what mindset did you go in whereas filming Farzaana’s operation scene, when your character, Dr. Kaushik Oberoi freezes within the ER?
So, Nikkhil sir had referred to as me to the workplace and sat with me and defined to me, what he’s anticipating from Kaushik Oberoi and he had instructed me very clearly that, ‘it is a man who’s a workaholic, who has been working for therefore a few years and works 22 hours a day and now there’s a hole of 9 months, he has not labored for these many hours, so you must perceive that it is a one that is making an attempt to comeback, he isn’t assured now, he has forgotten every part, he’s on the backfoot, you see the way you need to go about it,’ so, luckily for me as a result of, within the first season I used to be not in a position to save Mr. Kelkar, these visuals had been very contemporary in my thoughts, so whereas filming that scene I did not must do an excessive amount of, I solely needed to keep in mind these visuals from the primary season and that actually helped in that scene. Final night time, I noticed that scene and it actually got here out fantastically. Because of Malay Prakash, our DOP (Director of Footage) the way in which he has performed with the sunshine and the digital camera as a result of whereas filming I did not realise it, however once I noticed it, he has completed a implausible job.
Natasha, how did you faucet into the position of somebody who simply misplaced their mother and father?
I believe it was season one, which ends with Diya shedding her mom, which is one thing for anybody is extraordinarily life altering, once you lose such a powerful pillar in your life. And extra so for Diya, as a result of her mom is the hyperlink between the daddy and Diya, so for her to grapple with that, to select up the items and herself and simply stand up, act stronger as a result of she all the time needed to be a physician, she all the time needed to avoid wasting lives, so she would not need to deter that. So, this season, she is extra hopeful, she is making an attempt to work on herself, she has completed remedy, and he or she needs to take care of her nervousness and melancholy in a wholesome method as an alternative of taking tablets. She is making an attempt to empathise along with her father and this season she can be coping with a affected person who’s going by way of id points, so when she is speaking to the affected person’s mother and father it is also very therapeutic for her and on the final second Diya comes out stronger.
Inform us about your actual life 2005 Mumbai Flood expertise
Mohit: I used to be in Chembur, I used to be coming again, I had gone there to assist my nephew get admission in school and I acquired caught in Bandra for about three days. There was no meals, all the highway was blocked and it was additionally my first day within the metropolis and so, I wasn’t actually accustomed to the roads, so I had no different possibility however to remain in a single place as a result of I did not know the place to go. Social media wasn’t there so you actually did not know what was the state of affairs, so that you had been solely listening to from the passerby, {that a} tree had fallen, a automotive had fallen, accidents, and other people serving to one another. I survived these three days on Parle G biscuits, so, the ‘spirit of Mumbai’ got here and all of the folks had been serving to one another. I do not suppose that anyone ought to face this, however what we will study is to assist one another every time one thing like this occurs.
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