For Mrunal, working on the film also brought a deeper understanding of the conversations around consent and personal boundaries. She said, “It definitely made me more conscious of how nuanced these conversations could be. Honestly, consent and boundaries are really complicated concepts, for me at least. I didn’t realise it until this point. When I was shooting this film, I was still very naive and vulnerable. But at this stage of my life, I understand what boundaries are and the fact that I’m able to have those boundaries in my personal life as well; this film helped me understand it even better. This film kind of really made me think more deeply about how important it is that we communicate and how we respect someone’s ‘no’. That is the theme of the movie and how easily this obsession can be mistaken for love. That’s an important distinction for all of us to understand. Obsession, the movie that was recently released, also allowed me to delve deeper into it. It really changed the way I looked at life.
Mrunal said conversations with director Navjot Gulati were important in deciding how to approach the story and its sensitive subject matter. For her, the challenge was to understand the emotional intentions behind each scene without making the character or her circumstances feel manufactured.
She said, “Navjot and I spoke a lot about the emotional intentions behind every scene – what should be said, what should remain unsaid and where we should allow the audience to make their own judgment. It is also important, especially when we are dealing with subjects like consent – be it rejection, be it boundaries- we will have to be responsible about how I portray or how the director portrays this particular character.”
She continued, “Navjot and I, our intention with this film, including Dinu and Amar’s take on this particular subject, was to be truthful rather than make it feel manufactured. It’s a courtroom drama, and the spot that Pooja Dogra is in today is not something that everyone falls into. It should feel truthful. Even in courtroom dramas, you see the story taking twists and turns, but for that particular moment, the audience actually believes and goes with you. I just wanted to be truthful to the character in given episodes or chapters over the course of time.”
Produced by Dinesh Vijan and Amar Kaushik under Maddock Films, Pooja Meri Jaan is currently streaming on Zee 5.
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