INTERVIEW Vikramaditya Motwane, filmmaker - I AM KNOWN FOR THE LACK OF A SIGNATURE STYLE

Vikramaditya Motwane became a household name when Sacred Games, which he co-directed, was released on Netflix in 2018 as its first Indian original.

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It was a critical and commercial hit and set the bar high for subsequent Indian shows. His latest series, Jubilee, the first part of which released on April 7 on Amazon Prime Video to wide acclaim, is based on the golden era of Hindi cinema. The five-episode limited series describes the Bollywood studio system of the 1930s-40s, and the star power of its actors. Jubilee, starring Aparshakti Khurana, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hydari and Sidhant Gupta, is a gripping show with a layered narrative and multiple subplots set against a sepia-tinted backdrop. It traces the journey to stardom of a lowkey studio worker, the ambitions of a studio owner and a sex worker’s dream of making it in the cinema world. 

Q/ How did you get the idea for Jubilee?

A/ It started in 2013, when we were all sitting around at the office of Phantom Films (of which he is a partner along with Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl and Madhu Mantena) and discussing the legacy of TV shows like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, House of Cards and