"We had to risk ourselves everyday to make this show and it's worth it"- Director Priyanka Ghose on Broken But Beautiful 3
Former theatre actress Priyanka Ghose who arrived with her maiden directorial venture, Broken but beautiful, Season 3 is currently soaking in the accolades coming her way for the hugely popular drama fiction series.
The show starring star Sidharth Shukla and newbie Sonia Rathee broke some records for Indian shows as it ranked at 40th position on worldwide IMDB ratings. Debutante director, Priyanka Ghose had quite a few hurdles completing the filming and post-production of the show amidst the pandemic.
Sharing light on some of her challenges, Priyanka shares, "This project is something that actually kept us going through these tough times! Writing, we managed remotely, but with location recces and shoot we had to risk ourselves every single day. Shooting during a pandemic as everyone knows is a production nightmare. But I think all of us within the first few days of shoot ripped off that band-aid of fear and soldiered on. Shooting in these circumstances became more time-consuming as one has to adhere to all the safety protocols, tougher because you need to manage with smaller crews. We had to come up with clever solutions for reducing the number of people on the set. I had to constantly mould my scenes, locations, background artist requirements, equipment requirements basis the challenges that kept coming our way."
With stringent lockdown and the unprecedented second wave, only made things tougher. Priyanka explains, "We had days and nights where the location refused to let us shoot after we had set up base camp so we had to instantly move the whole unit to a whole new location we had never seen, we had cops halting our shoots, we had sudden time restrictions due to new lockdown rules getting imposed every other week, I would have to come up with innovative cheats with my DoP so we could reuse the limited number of background artists for different angles - I mean you name it and we had those problems - but kudos to the production & direction team & the rest of the crew for pulling it off."
Broken but beautiful went on to become a major hit and struck a chord with the audiences. With the challenges, also comes learning. Priyanka believes her previous work of years laid a strong foundation for her debut. "It taught me immense quick thinking on my feet throughout! Luckily we managed to finish the shoot before the full lockdown got called; thanks to the foresight of my producers. Then came the mammoth task of post-production in lockdown. Fortunately, I had done this last year during Aarya so it was a huge help as I was able to put that process into practice very easily for this show. Hours and hours of editing with my editor on zoom led to more zoom calls with my team - the team that would give feedback on my first cut and then again we would go back to making those edit tweaks before we took it to the OTT platform. Ekta of course is an incredible storyteller. I learned a lot from her insights at the writing & edit stage. I even did all my bgm and music over zoom. Most of my dubs with the actors were also on video calls & were handled very well by my assistants. Sound mix to a certain extent I managed on zoom. VFX I managed remotely. It was only during the last few days before release that I had to physically go check the final DI, final sound mix, final dubs, etc for our final masters. But the entire remote post-production required a very strict schedule, all of us adhering to it like an army camp, a lot of patience navigating through those endless zoom sessions & numerous google spreadsheets & oodles of focus from my team members & even from my actors who had to juggle their own domestic lives in lockdown with our mad hours of work from home," she adds.
"Challenges are usually galore for a director making his/her debut, but Mere Liye extra diwali bonus," Priyanka quips.
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