Description
Baatan Hi Baatan Mein (Love In A Few Words) is the story of Aasha and Manoj – strangers bound by an arranged marriage. As Manoj leaves for work a day after his marriage, he contemplates calling her but not knowing what to say, hesitates. His workmate tells him to use WhatsApp’s Voice Note. His awkward first message catches Aasha by surprise. But that marks the beginning of their love story. Raw, real, rural were the three legs of the directorial approach. We took a radical call at prep, to first cast the main protagonists, not just for their acting chops but who were from a part of India where they could theoretically perhaps end up together. Then forced ourselves to build a world around them while bound by their geographical roots. Pushing all departments out of comfort zones. Leading to magical things like finding a quarry, music with niche folk codes and eventually a film that is rooted in the hinterland without resorting to any of the usual tropes.
