'Won't Allow Severe Cuts, It Will Destroy The Film'

"The chances of The Shameless passing through the censorship board in India are slim to none.'

Konstantin Bojanov tutored Anasuya Sengupta, who won the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard Section at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, from scratch as she had no experience at all in acting. Bojanov, known for his earlier films Avé and Light Thereafter, describes Anasuya as “a natural talent”. “Above all, she understood the character immediately.

I held two weeks of table readings and workshopping the scenes with all the lead actors during the prep, and that made my work on set immensely easier as we shot the film at a breakneck pace,” “I tend to listen to my gut when it comes down to selecting my actors.

It’s how I found Angela Nedialkova for Avé two weeks before we began production and after a year of searching for the lead.

It is also how I found Barry Keoghan for Light Thereafter. It was his first lead role.” Speaking of The Shameless, Bojanov says , “The Shameless is a love story between a young woman and a young girl nestled inside a crime story like a Russian doll.”

It is about a young woman on the run to save her life after killing a cop in a brothel on Delhi’s GB Road. She changes her identity and enters a small community of sex workers where she hopes to find a temporary shelter.

She falls in love with a young girl from across the street, and that becomes a major impediment to her escape.

Shooting for The Shameless was no cakewalk for Bojanov. “I walked the tightrope all along.