35: Understanding Indie Cinema landscape with Rajat Kapoor.

Rajat Kapoor is an Indian actor, writer and director born in 1961. Kapoor was born in Delhi, India. Today we will try and understand the landscape of Indie Cinema in India. 1. What is Indie Cinema? What defines indie cinema? Is it defined in the way it is financed or the way it’s distributed? 2. What is the biggest challenge Indie cinema is facing today? 3. What is the need of such kind of cinema in the society? What is the role of such films? Why do indie cinema exist? 4. What is the future of Independent cinema in India according to you? May be 2 or 3 decades later? 5. As per my understanding, Mithya resonates with Godard’s line of cinema being the biggest fraud. Then why to try and show false reality? What excites you to do so?