Filmmaker Nitin Chandra Believes Anurag Kashyap & Prakash Jha As The Saviours Of Bhojpuri Cinema

National Award-winning filmmaker Nitin Chandra says directors like Anurag Kashyap and Prakash Jha can be saviours of Bhojpuri cinema, which is stuck in a stereotype.

Chandra, who has directed films “Deswa” and “Mithila Makhaan“, interacted with the media for his upcoming music video “San san bahey” by Suresh Wadkar in Mumbai.

On Bhojpuri language and its cinema losing ground, he said: “Languages such as Awadhi, Braj, Bhojpuri and Maithali are almost disappearing from the educated middle class as there is no education in these languages and no government support, especially to Bhojpuri.

“This situation has given rise to the crisis in terms of literature, music and cinema in our languages. Barely anyone is making respectful cinema, writing literature or creating music in the languages of these two states (Bihar and Uttar Pradesh), which is worth worrying”.

Chandra said it is upon filmmakers and people with influence to shape and improve the condition or general opinion about their mother tongue because cinema has a bigger cultural expression and representation.