“It makes me work harder and better because of the challenge and the responsibility that comes with it,” shares the filmmaker. Gulzar’s biggest challenge, however, was in recreating the period the film is set in. “You are trying to recreate the 1970s Pakistan and you don’t have a visual reference — not on an immediate personal level. So, you lean on your imagination and logic.” For her research, Gulzar met sources and think tanks and requested them for inputs without compromising their position or the institution they work for. “Not only spies, every human being has shades of grey in them.

Source: The Hindu May 09, 2018 15:32 UTC