I’m not a horror movie aficionado: Kajol on newest film ‘Maa’

“Maa”, directed by Vishal Furia, is the primary horror mission of Kajol’s profession of over 30 years. The film shares the identical universe with the 2023 film “Shaitaan”, which featured her actor-husband Ajay Devgn.

“I do not watch horror movies. I’ve watched quite a lot of large movies. I’m not a horror movie aficionado in any respect.

“I haven’t watched ‘Maa’ yet. Only in parts with lots of green screens behind me so that I don’t get scared, and no background music, or anything like that. I really have to watch it, for professional reasons,” the 50-year-old actor informed PTI in an interview right here.

As an actor, Kajol had initially assumed engaged on a horror movie could be no completely different from every other style.

“It was a really fascinating expertise, truly, it was not one thing that I had carried out earlier than. I at all times assumed engaged on the horror style was the identical as working in every other movie, and I used to be utterly incorrect.

“Horror has a pitch when you are acting, and the pitch is completely different from regular movies. It’s not a rom-com, it’s not a love story, or it’s not a drama. Vishal and I used to have long conversations where we were like, ‘no, this is not the pitch. You have to keep it at this pitch.’ And that was really emotionally draining… to keep it at that pitch constantly,” she added.

“Maa” options Kajol as Ambika, a lady main a contented life together with her husband, and daughter Shweta.

When the mother-daughter pair journey to Chandrapur in West Bengal to promote the ancestral bungalow, they confront the eerie traditions and tightly held secrets and techniques of the village and are drawn right into a chilling internet of worry, superstition, and one thing even darker, in line with the official plotline.

Kajol stated the film was initially conceptualised as a decent thriller however in the course of the improvement course of, the makers realised the necessity to add a horror factor to it.

“We did not begin out to do a horror movie… however by the point the script got here out, we realised that the characters and conditions had develop into so large, that we wanted an even bigger platform to do justice to them, and to climax for them.

“As it was, the audience would not have been satisfied if we had come out with a very simplistic ending… it just didn’t leave you that satisfied. So, that’s why we had to attach the horror tag to give it that kind of staging,” she stated.

Kajol stated her character of Ambika offers with the “basic notion of the parent”, which is to guard her little one.

“…and she wants to do everything that she can to protect her child from physical harm,” she stated.

At the tip, the movie turned out to be a studying expertise for the actor.

“From doing action, to working with VFX, all of it, and even the dramatic scenes… I love the music of the film, so it all came together really nicely,” she stated.

Although Kajol has carried out a big variety of initiatives on OTT, together with authorized drama collection “The Trial: Pyaar Kaanoon Dhokha” and suspense thriller “Do Patti”, the actor stated nothing beats the attraction of watching films in theatres.

“Cinemas still have magic, somewhere down the line… You just don’t have that same vibe or feel when you’re watching a movie at home. It’s something that only a cinema theatre can give you,” she stated.

“Maa” additionally stars Indraneil Sengupta, Kherin Sharma and Ronit Roy. Presented by Jio Studios and Devgn Films, the movie is produced by Jyoti Deshpande and co-produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak.

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