But the world is asking Ayyan Mani to be an idealistic character, to be better than the world itself, though it's the same world that didn't treat him well. "Everybody manipulates, even the serious men in the film.
He's taking the opportunity which wasn't given to him and giving them to his son. He is trying to soak up, learn what you've not given him. "The film sees the world through his eyes. Mani is a quick learner, dynamic and aware of the frauds the upper class pulls off as well as their brilliance, he added. The filmmaker found Mani as a "fascinating, complicated, humane" character, the one who refuses to play by the book. That's the bad art film you drink wine and discuss at film festivals," he said. "To only show them as this crawling, earnest people who look up to others, crying slowly as they drown in some quick sand, wasn't what I wanted to do. It's a form of cowardice not to give the poor this agency." Over the years, Mishra has chronicled stories with sociopolitical backdrop successfully in films like "Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi", "Dharavi" and "Chameli." With "Serious Men", Mishra said he didn't want to make a film which would ignite a discussion among the privileged only because the poor were viewed with sympathy and not as equal, flawed beings. "What has Ayyan Mani done? He has taken the educational system and made his son mug up something which the teachers aren't smart enough to catch. In an interview with PTI, Mishra said he saw Mani, played with charming restless energy by Siddiqui, as a man who is two steps ahead of the world.
Through its aspirational central protagonist Mani, a Tamil Dalit in Mumbai, the film examines caste discrimination, upper class privilege and how he turns the system, which oppressed people for generations, to his advantage. Adapted from the author's 2010 novel, "Serious Men" chronicles the story of an ambitious underachiever Ayyan Mani, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who capitalises on his son's newfound fame as a boy-genius Adi (Aakshath Das) to improve his family’s fortunes. PTI | Mumbai | Updated: 13-10-2020 13:51 IST | Created: 13-10-2020 13:51 ISTįilmmaker Sudhir Mishra was clear when he set out to adapt Manu Joseph's "Serious Men" for the screen that he would not mould its protagonist in a poor-man stereotype, giving the character agency as well shades of grey.
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