Every character in ‘Black Out’ has a grey shade: Director Devang Bhavsar said – Night shooting on the streets of Pune was challenging

Vikrant Massey’s film ‘Black Out’ has been released on the OTT platform Jio Cinema. It is a dark suspense thriller comedy. It also stars Sunil Grover, Vikrant Massey and Mouni Roy. Neeraj Kothari’s 11:11 Production is also involved in its production. The director is Devang Bhavsar. A special conversation with him about the film… How and when did the idea of ​​’Black Out’ come from? I always thought that I would make a comedy story based on one night, which has a lot of confusion. If I talk about where I got the inspiration for this, then yes, whenever the light goes out, then the mind works on what all cannot happen in such a situation. It can be understood like this that one day the light went out and the light in my mind lit up regarding this story. I always write or make any story from the audience’s point of view. I try to do something in this story that the audience will enjoy. Was Vikrant the first choice for the film? Yes, Vikrant was the first choice. Neeraj Kothari and Vikrant had worked together before. While looking for the lead actor for this, both Neeraj and I felt that there could be no better casting than this. When the audience will see this character, they will find that there are some things that only Vikrant could do. He was fitting well with this character. It is just like Akshay’s character in ‘Welcome’ gets stuck from many sides. What difficulties did you face during the shooting? The biggest challenge was shooting it at night. Although, some day scenes were also shot, but most of them were night scenes. Shooting at night was challenging not only for the actor but for the entire team because you are working at night and sleeping during the day, in such a situation the body cycle changes. Then we were shooting on the streets of Pune. In such a situation, blocking the road, shooting action sequences, crashing vehicles. Fortunately, no one got hurt during the shooting. Our stunt master and all of us took full care that no one got hurt. Yes, it was definitely challenging for Sunil Grover because he did action sequences in it even though he had undergone some surgeries. He himself pushed us to do it. Does every character in the film have many layers? Not only Vikrant, all the characters in the film have some mystery behind them. Everyone has a grey shade. I have always tried to explain that every human being does not have only two shades, black and white, but there is also grey. This is what I am trying to explore in this. I am showing in this that when a person gets greedy and when greed overpowers him, he does a lot of wrong things. Everyone has a back story in this. Does Mouni have a full-fledged role in this or is it just a cameo? Mouni has a full-fledged role in this and I am damn sure that she has not done anything like this before. It was exciting that she joined this film and her role is also very important. Why did you take it to the dark comedy zone, you could have kept it comic too? For me, this film is a comedy. Now how do I explain that if you try to show a genre in a new form, then it takes a lot of hard work. I have also tried to give it a little fresh perspective. I think our mind gets distracted by watching social media, OTT and many other things. I believe that if the audience is watching this film, then the biggest enemy is their phone. If they picked up their phone while watching the film, it means that somewhere, something is weak in the story. My effort was to make it such that the audience does not get distracted anywhere else even for a moment. Its screenplay is so fast that if you miss even a single scene, you will not understand what happened next and why. If the film is liked, will you take it forward? What do you have next at the writing level? It is the audience who will decide whether to take it forward or not. We have not planned this for now. But we have planned that if the audience responds well, then we will make its part 2 with Vikrant. Of course we have a story. I have two more films at the writing stage. I will start pitching them after the release of this film. One of these is a thriller and the other is a slice of life drama.

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