By Baaree Siddiqi
I am excited to introduce you to an amazing writer, director, and lyricist, Junaid Imam. I’ve seen the trailer to his movie, and being impressed was an understatement. I heard about him from my mother, and I was thrilled to know more about his journey. And, well, here he is! This is what he’s saying about his journey.
Q. Why you join film industry what was the reason?
Q. What kind of challenges you faced, as an independent film maker?
A: I started working for the film industry from 2005. I was working on television series. But eventually, my interest started fading away due to various reasons. I wanted to write my own stories and film them too. But the kind of realistic stories that I was writing, it was difficult to get any sponsors for it. Whomsoever I approached for fund, wanted to make a commercial-entertainment movie. I always was more interested in writing social humorous, satirical films. Due to shortage of funds and support, I started making independent low budget films using my own resources. On top of this, the people from the industry, weren’t ready to accept such social satirical concepts.
Q. Tell us about your journey so far?
Q. What was your feelings when you got Best Director award from UK for “Merit Animal’?
A. Merit Animal is a very special film for me. It took me around 2 years to write its script and I had written the script from the bottom of my heart. After trying a lot, I luckily got producers like Akola’s Pradeep Deshmukh and Mumbai’s Reena Jadhav. They gave me complete freedom for creativity and trusted me. Because the film was on children’s education and city life, I had to face new and different challenges. But, seeing that now I have been awarded, I am satisfied that all my efforts were worth it. I am very grateful to Allah for this.
Q. Your short films got so many awards; how do you feel?
Q. You are director/writer/lyricist, which role is more difficult to play?
All the three fields are challenging. But personally, I feel playing a role of Director is more challenging for me. Because, for every scene I have to make sure that what I have captured on the screen is same as what I have visualized. At the same time, I also need to coordinate with different departments and handle all of them very calmly. I guess this is also something that I enjoy the most in film making.
Q. What would come next in your career?
A. I have recently published my first novel in Urdu. It is currently being translated in other languages.
Then, I am working on the script of two films.
And then, some of my short films are already on OTT platform. Now, I am working on another mini web-series for OTT.
Thank you for your time J.I. Wishing you the very best for your future endeavors.
Baaree
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