I am a huge believer in the term conflict and that is where the core of Jalsa lies, says Suresh Triveni

Want to do away with the term ‘woman-centric’ films: Suresh

- Rachana Dubey

It’s taken adman Suresh Triveni a period of five years to put together and craft the thriller Jalsa. The film features Vidya Balan, who also headlined the cast of his directorial debut, Tumhari Sulu, and Shefali Shah, whose work he has closely followed. The film revolves around an incident that impacts the lives of two women from different economic and social strata, which leads to a clash. The film premieres on Amazon Prime Video tomorrow in India and across 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Talking about the driving factors behind Jalsa, Suresh says, “One is the practical side, which comes down to ‘Tumhare paas Vidya aur Shefali ke dates hain, tum Abhi shoot Karlo!’ The second is that after Tumhari Sulu, there were various labels being attached to me and I had begun to take myself far too seriously. I took a break and got back to advertising for a while. I started working on some scripts; Jalsawas one of them. I realised that if an idea continues to talk to me even six months after I first thought of it, there is something there.”