It takes a little while to find your balance, but soon youre on your way.
Making films with fresh faces
Lost Ladiesfirst started out as a story titled2 Brides, written by Biplab Goswami.
Khan felt that the story would be a good fit for Rao to direct.
Director Kiran Rao (R)Jio Studios/Aamir Khan Productions
I was lucky that I had that opportunity to make the film the way I wanted.
I was sold at the thought of striking this delicate balance and the rest was up to the execution.
Its great to have the ability to visually make our films exactly the way we want.
However, Rao tried to stick to real locations, dialogue and sound as much as possible.
In terms of sound, we were shooting in very different and difficult circumstances, she says.
We managed to get all of it in live sound.
I feel that added a lot of real texture to the scenes.
Its the journey film thats always very interesting for me, says Rao.
My favorite part of making the film was the romance of the journey, she says.
Ive grown up traveling on Indian trains right through my childhood.
We would take these long distance trains from where I lived to my grandparents house.
Its a kind of a meditative experience.
We thought that each of these characters could have an instrument or a sound that would go with them.
It was really exciting to know that weve been chosen, she says.
It was unexpected, but an absolute delight.
We got a message from the Film Federation of India and the whole crew was ecstatic.
[The] rest is on the merits of the film and each film will have its own destiny.
We are making so many friends and getting so much love along the way.
One project that she is currently developing is a scary fairy tale a climate horror set in the Himalayas.
