The trailer for Shamshera (2022) was released last week and has got a good response. The larger-than-life film, which is set to be released in Imax format, looks promising.
Director Karan Malhotra was confident about the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer when he said, “The theatre-going audience who come to cinema halls to get soaked in this world of movies and forget their lives, the film celebrates all that. I do believe that this film is the future of our cinema.”
Asked about the trend of larger-than-life movies from the South clicking with audiences across the country, Malhotra said, “The films that have worked have worked because of just one thing: the filmmaker’s conviction. Irrespective of language, region or state, it’s the conviction of the filmmaker that has met with humongous success. As a country, we should be celebrating that. I hope we are able to create that sort of conviction while creating stories.”
Shamshera was shot over 140 days and the director lauded his crew for working tirelessly. “It was the culmination of 140 days of fun, madness, screaming-yelling breakdowns and all of it that is captured in the three-minute trailer,” Malhotra said.
The film’s music and background score are by Mithoon and the director said it was very important to get it right. “There are six songs in the film which you will discover when the album is out, but as far as the background is concerned, a lot of credit goes to Mithoon," Malhotra said. "We gave seven-and-a-half months to it. It was an intense process because we were collaborating on a visual that needed much more than what an ordinary film would need.
“For that, we needed the right partner, which Mithoon was. Since the film’s visuals are larger-than-life, the background score had to be larger-than-life too. When we hear the dhol [a traditional drum] in the Ganpati festival, or any live instruments, such music had gone missing, and Shamshera for me was the opportunity to reinvent all of that in today’s times.”
Shamshera is set to be released on 22 July. Watch the trailer below and let us know if you are keen to watch the film.