Exclusive! Faadu - A Love Story director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari: As a storyteller, I feel the responsibility of capturing reality

Celebrated filmmaker Ashwini Iyer Tiwari made her debut as web series director with Faadu - A Love Story, currently streaming on the OTT platform, Sony LIV. She shares how as a storyteller, she is constantly in search of bringing realism to every story that she tells on-screen. 

The series stars Saiyami Kher and Pavail Gulati as the protagonists. They are from different economic backgrounds and ideologies and yet, fall in love. The series explores how a series of events follow. 

Elaborating on the same, Ashwini told OTTplay, "I feel the responsibility of telling a story of the changing time of the society, as a storyteller. So when one can see that the story of Faadu - A Love Story is coming from the real space, its characterisations, treatment everything is coming from a space of observation. I am constantly observing the transition that our society is going through...the way everything is evolving. And when I say change, I am talking about all things changing be it our relationship with parents, neighbour, and people around us; our lifestyle, our food, clothes and also the way we look at money. As the dynamic with all the elements are changing, I try to capture that as a storyteller." 

The story of the series attempted to encapsulate the journey of a young man Abhay coming from an under-privileged background with a family that has an alcoholic brother, a terminally ill mother and how all the distress made Abhay desperate to achieve all the happiness and comfort that one can get from financial success. 

Ask Ashwini about her way of gathering information on how things are changing and she shares, "I observe people in public places. For example, when I go to a restaurant to have a meal, I see people around. Most of them are on phone, busy and eating hurriedly and probably not even taking a moment to appreciate the food that they are eating. The colour, the fragrance of the food...the art that the chef put out on the table because everyone is busy. The fact is, we are in a race to achieve everything. While we are achieving everything, we are not enjoying anything of what we are achieving...life is poetry lying in little things." 

Being a filmmaker, she always tried to bring realism in her films be it Nil Battey Sannata, Bareilly Ki Barfi or Panga to name a few. Faadu – A Love Story is her latest offering and does the same. 

The web series Faadu - A Love Story is written by Saumya Joshi and produced by Indranil Chakraborty. It also features Deepak Sampat, Abhilash Thapliyal and Neeraj Kashyap among others. The show is streaming on SonyLIV.