: Nagraj Manjule on ‘Unpaused’: ‘My aim is to say something without forcing it on people’ #IndiaNEWS The hair has been trimmed. The beard has vanished. But the memory of shooting a film in a

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Nagraj Manjule on ‘Unpaused’: ‘My aim is to say something without forcing it on people’ #IndiaNEWS
The hair has been trimmed. The beard has vanished. But the memory of shooting a film in a crematorium and playing a worker who gives flame to bodies is unlikely to go away in a hurry, Nagraj Manjule says.Manjule’s Vaikunth is one of five episodes in Amazon Prime Video’s coronavirus pandemic-themed Unpaused: Naya Safar. It is also one of its most memorable. Manjule directs the episode and also acts as Vikas, a worker at a crematorium that is struggling to cope with Covid-19 deaths.For several dialogue-free minutes, Vikas takes tightly wrapped bodies off gurneys, sets them on fire and bears silent witness to the sobs and wails of relatives. As the pile of ash from the cremated bodies rises – a measure of the pandemic’s grim toll – we learn that Vikas too is affected by the pandemic.He is forced to bring his son Avinash (Arjun Karche) to the facility and worries about his father (Hanumant Bhandari), who is ailing from Covid-19 at a government hospital – the same one that frequently sends over corpses to the crematorium.“It was hot, very hot,� Manjule remembers of the shoot, which took place about three months ago. “The smoke, the heat, the labour involved, all got to me. I got boils in my...Read more

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