Netflix’s Black Warrant co-director Satyanshu Singh insisted why he insisted on making it into a series format and not a feature film. Vikramaditya Motwane said, It’s a 200-page book that spans over 35 years. We have made it into a season that spans four years.”
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In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost, Vikramaditya Motwane had mentioned that the book written by Sunetra Choudhury and real-life jailer Sunil Gupta on which the Netflix’s Black Warrant is based on was so well written that the main text was taken from it.
Vikramaditya Motwane on cinematic liberty taken in Netflix’s
Black Warrant
When asked about cinematic liberty taken in Netflix’s show, Vikramaditya Motwane mentioned, “It’s a 200-page book that spans over 35 years. We have made it into a season that spans four years. We have taken incidents and time spans from the book. We had to create our own characters and their arcs. You have to start building more characters into it.”
Motwane added, “I wanted to do something about it. It’s about a piece of history about a time when I grew up personally, through the 80s and going forward. It’s kind of a milestone in crime history if I can put it that way. That was very interesting. That mixed with the fact that you have the most unlikely protagonists. When I sent the book to Satyanshu (Co-director) and he read it, he agreed thankfully and we made the show.”
Making Black Warrant into a series and not a film
While interviewing both Motwane and Satyanshu (Co-director), when asked if they had a differences in opinion making the film, Motwane said, “I felt that the whole book should be done in one season and he wanted to slow it down and make it into a series.”
However, making
Black Warrant into a series was indeed a bright idea because Black Warrant dealt with many case studies. Explaining why he wanted it to be made into a series, Satyanshu Singh said, “When it comes to a feature film, it is about the plot of the story. The beginning, the middle and the end of it. When it comes to a series, it’s a character and the world. Any good series is basically a deep dive into the world. I thought that reading a small book can teach philosophy with so many wonderful details. If you slow it down, we could cover day-to-day lives of these jailers and inmates. If you are making a series like this, it has to be a definitive series on prisons. We need to go deep into this world is what I felt.”
About Netflix’s Black Warrant
Netflix’s Black Warrant, a seven-episode series created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh is not a one-time watch and definitely not for binge watching. It’s an impactful prison series that will make you think.
WATCH the trailer of Netflix’s Black Warrant here: