Sudhir Mishra: I have lost a bit of my swag after pandemic

BY SUGANDHA RAWAL New Delhi, Oct 31 : For Sudhir Mishra, the pandemic has left an everlasting impact on his life, and not everything about it is good. The filmmaker says holding his ill father in his arms and running towards the ICU, and then watching him die has changed him, and he is still figuring out how.
“You know, (author) Manu Joseph once wrote an article about me and said that ‘I’m the collector of frail men’. Now, I see myself as much more frail after the pandemic,” Mishra told IANS, when asked about the projects he is working on.
“I’d like to relook at things that I’ve been working on. I am working on a film, I am working on a script, I am working on a couple of OTT long form things. There is a historical series that I am rewriting. So, there is a lot of work, but through these five or six months, some other story seems to be emerging and I am trying to get a grasp of it,” added the filmmaker.
He continued: “I don’t know this whole experience of the pandemic. I’ve lost a bit of my swag. When I saw myself terrified, holding my father in my arms and running towards an ICU, and then watching him die, that has done something. I don’t know what exactly. It will show in my next (project).” Mishra entered the showbiz as a director with “Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin” in 1987. He added strokes of diverse stories on the cinematic canvas, from “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi”, “Chameli”, “Inkaar”, “Khoya Khoya Chand”, “Calcutta Mail”, “Inkaar” to “Hostages”.
His most recent project was “Serious Men”, an adaptation of Manu Joseph’s book of the same name. The Netflix Original film featured Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and narrated the story of a father who wants to create a bright future for his son.