![]() I mean it still is, but I don’t see how exactly. When I was growing up in Bombay, I thought it was wonderful. Nostalgia is a theme you keep coming back to. We had a wonderful conversation and then we did rewrites on the screenplay and slowly one thing led to another and we were on a set 10-12 weeks after we spoke. Robert had seen The Lunchbox and he wanted to speak to me about a possible adaptation of the book. One day I got a call from Robert’s office. His book Benediction is a particular favourite of mine. It was a great time just to work through a scene with them. Before shooting, the three of us got in a room together for a week to rehearse. But they are masterful actors and played off each other wonderfully. For them to pretend that they are strangers was difficult in the beginning. A part of the challenge regarding this movie was that the characters don’t know each other and they slowly get to know each other. Redford and Fonda have known each other for years and this is their fourth film together. So I had a good time making this movie, imagining him get a second chance where he makes a connection with someone. My grandfather had a lot of quiet dignity and he was very civil in the way he spoke to people, which is how I asked Robert to be for his character. Maybe, it has got something to do with that. I got to see him from close quarters going through things I did not understand completely. So sometimes he was my best friend, sometimes he was an elderly person I could talk heart to heart with. We shared a room together for the first 18 years of my life and the last 18 of his. When I was young, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather while growing up in Bombay. You are much younger than the average age of your protagonists. In an interview, Batra spoke about working with Redford and Fonda, his filmmaking inspirations and working across film industries. Batra is in India scouting for locations for his next movie, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra. Our Souls at Night is Batra’s third film to deal man-woman relationships and longing and nostalgia after The Lunchbox (2013) and The Sense of an Ending (2016). Based on the novel of the same name by Kent Haruf, the film is available for streaming on Netflix. The next night, Waters is in Moore’s bedroom and thus begins a short-lived but fulfilling romance in Ritesh Batra’s Our Souls at Night. The octogenarian widower has not expected such a proposal near the end of his life. When Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) walks up to Louis Waters’ (Robert Redford) and suggests that they start to live together after sundown each day to “get through the night”, Waters is flummoxed. ![]() Wrestlers protest shows how Indian law is a tool of oppression rather than an instrument of justice.Modi’s new parliament could see Hindi belt gain, South lose power at the Centre.Watch: Cast of the ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ musical performs in New York’s Times Square.Fiction: How a Muslim man from Motihari deals with everyday life as right-wing extremism rises.‘Who will stage the inaugural walkout?’: Cartoonists chuckle over India’s new Parliament building.IPL 2023: As Chennai Super Kings clinch record-equalling fifth title, a look at the list of winners.So how did Erdogan win a fifth term in office? Why a Tamil sceptre handed over by Mountbatten lies at the heart of Modi’s new Parliament.Comeback Super Kings: Reactions to CSK winning fourth IPL title after excellent win against KKR.IPL 2023 Final, GT vs CSK as it happened: Chennai Super Kings clinch fifth title after thriller.Readers’ comments: Freedom to choose religion is constitutional, but does not include missionaries.Reading list for young readers: The 12 books shortlisted for the 2023 Neev Book Awards.
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