Director Shoojit Sircar: Been offered big money to make sequels to all my films like Piku, Madras Cafe

Director Shoojit Sircar’s movies have been cherished by audiences — right from Vicky Donor (2012) and Madras Café (2013) to October (2018). What’s more, the director uncovers that normally, individuals expect that he should make sequels to them.

In any case, he has no such plans,  despite being offered enormous amounts of money by makers. “You need to have a powerful story to do that. I think more or less, we have tried to put in everything on that one film, so I do not know what is left for the second film. I also quickly get bored with the same idea, so I need to move on. That is also the problem. I have been offered big money to make sequels to more or less all my films — Piku (2015), even Madras Café. People ask me for the next part of Pink (2016). I have not found any story to move ahead and make a sequel,” says the director.

While actor and producer for the most part have numerous projects in various phases of production at a given point, the same is not the case with Sircar. Conceding that he has no next project in mind, he says, he says, “I am not a factory, that I will keep churning out films. I am studying, doing gardening, I play football, and a lot of thinking and discussing. Let’s see what comes out.”

And what occurs in a situation where a really good idea comes to him for years at a stretch? Is he willing to wait that long, only for a decent subject? Sircar answers in the affirmative.

“At the end of the day, it is an expression, art. It comes from pure passion, so it is not my only livelihood that I am dependent on. Yes I am dependent, but I am not doing this because I have to churn out films and make sure it is running. It is purely what drives me. Only when it triggers me, I move, otherwise I don’t,” he ends.