Culture 2 min read By Morgan Griffin
Indian Stars Discuss Lakadbaggha 2 at Bruges Interview
Director and actor Anshuman Jha and actress Sara-Jane Dias discussed in Bruges a new Indian action film that advocates animal rights and draws on local martial arts.
Indian actor and director Anshuman Jha and actress Sara-Jane Dias talked about the film "Lakadbaggha 2: The Monkey Business" as part of Deadline's "Local to Global" interview series, held in Bruges, Belgium. The picture, made in the Indian action genre, is devoted to animal rights protection and is built on local martial arts traditions.
The film has already been presented at the Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival, where it received the audience favorite award as runner-up. For the creators, this screening was a notable step in promoting the picture outside India, where its story and style were shaped on the basis of local material.
According to the participants of the interview, one of the main goals of the project is to build a full-fledged Indian action franchise. Jha and Dias emphasized that relying on local martial arts sets the film apart from familiar Hollywood models and allows it to speak to cultural specificity while keeping an action language understandable to an international audience.
The theme of animal protection serves in the film not as background but as the narrative backbone. In the authors' view, choosing such a theme for a commercial action film helps combine entertaining dynamics with a serious social problem that matters both in India and beyond.
The Bruges interview was part of Deadline's series on how regional stories reach the global level. The conversation with Jha and Dias shows how Indian cinema is trying to build its own franchise, drawing on national traditions while addressing a global audience.
Source: deadline.com
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