Mumbai: Girgaum film director’s celluloid dreams earn him national award

Mumbai: He loves to dream and

Bhimrao Kashinath Mude’s film

, which recently fetched him the national award, is all about dreams — one of human mind’s abiding pre-occupations.

“My film tries to de-mystify dreams. A no man’s land, every dream weaves a tapestry of thoughts and moods —

coalescing facts and fantasy

, the mundane and the sublime into a creative experience,” said Mude. “Dreams are like short sleep before yet another awakening,” he said, attributing the film’s concept to the Buddhist philosophy. The title of the film ‘Bardo’ is the Tibetan word for a brief interval between the old and the new, he added.

However, the maverick film maker never in his dreams thought of joining the world of grease paint and glamour. A product of the city’s textile hub, Mude, as a child, soaked in Girangao’s robust, multi-hued culture — Ganesh festivals, gully cricket and ‘gan-gavlan’, theatre of the proletariat.

His father lost his weaver’s job in the now defunct India United Mill No. 1 following the historic textile strike in 1982. “I was in Std IV and knew nothing of the upheavals in my family. Girangao was losing its moorings,” he recalled. Mude’s mother set up a ‘khanaval’ to keep the home fires burning.

As a student of Maharshi Dayanand College, Mude discovered the joy and beauty of theatre. From theatre to television serials and then to cinema was a hop in quick succession.

He made his debut with ‘Daavpech’ (Strategy). ‘Kaul Manaachaa’ (Heart’s Verdict) was next. Both did well at the box office. Last week, ‘Bardo’ fetched him the prestigious golden lotus. His next destination, after a quick de tour of Hindi filmdom is Hollywood. “I want to go there and do a film,” he said.