Why Pushkar Mahabals 'Black, White & Gray' is a killer crash throttle

The author director Pushkar Mahabal is on Cloud Nine these days and is in the veneration for his debut series Black, White & Gray: Love Kills on Sononyliv. The series has gained a brilliant approach to a crime thriller-a part of the documentary with speaking heads, sometimes fictional re-adoption with clever use of found film material.

“It is overwhelming,” says Mahabal. “I was sure that we couldn't get any negative reviews because we knew that it wasn't a bad show. What surprised me was how people selected every single beat and every tiny detail.”

The show follows the bloody footprint of a serial killer and leaves the audience several perspectives of the crimes in the course of six episodes. This is done with voices of several people – the accused and his parents, the friend and family of the victims, police officers, an assassin, to name just a few. In the end, the spectators have to ask themselves who says the truth and what really happened.

With Saas Bahu television programs and a less than seen film, Mahabal had his share of fighting to find a taker for his series. Sononyliv came to his rescue. “From the first meeting with Sononyliv we knew that we were in the right place,” says Mahabal. “Saugata Mukherjee, [head of content, SonyLIV,] I thought it was well thought out. It rarely fits that a platform says we will give you feedback, but you make the show you want to do. “

It helped that Mahabal had gone scripts for all six episodes instead of a traditional Bible that describes history. It is also a unique and risky approach, but it was worth it. “Entry into this field is enough game,” added Mahabal. “Why not go one step further and follow your stomach?”

The opportunity also offered a creative emigration at a time when the streaming industry was going through, and writers and creators found it difficult to start projects with streaming platforms. “It is a systemic problem, not one that takes care of one person. Everyone will have creative interpretations and clashes, back and forth will be negatively taken up and the feedback,” says Mahabal. “I would like to invest my time in writing a show that I think. I don't want to get into the development phase with a network because it doesn't work.”

Mahabal came from Nagpur to Mumbai and housed a passion for music. He started composing for Marathi films. Six years later, he turned and scored his big break with the TV show Mansmarziyaan. “After that I did a lot of regressive work. The more recently it was, the more money I earned. I even made close -ups from Sindoor,” he says open.

Mahabal's stay on television helped many friendships and taught him many lessons. “TV gave me an idea that I should only write things that I can produce, I shouldn't find a producer,” he says.

It didn't take long for Mahabal and his two friends, author-producer Ankita Narang and cameraman Saee Bope to come together and decided to get out of their comfort zone to make a film, to invest their own savings and to take on loans. The result was a welcome home that found home in Sononyliv at home. “We launched ourselves because nobody would give us the opportunity,” he says.

Mahabal is a fan of documentary films of true crime and a passionate observer of shows such as forensic files and describes Black, White & Grey as a document of true crime he wanted to see. After heard interviews by American serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer and saw Netflix Docs Night Stalker and hadn't triggered the idea with cats. “I was jealous because I had the feeling that neither the patience nor the resources or the abilities to make a document on true crime. I thought when I couldn't do real, just let me pretend,” he says.

Mahabal was also that the saturated market of Ott Crime Thrillers needed a new view. “I was boring to watch the same things, sometimes badly or sometimes shot brilliantly. Nobody played with a non -linear screenplay. There was no experimentation in the genre,” he notes.

Mahabal remembered the short misfortune of a friend in Goa, where his girlfriend lost consciousness and let him panic briefly when she was dead and how to deal with the situation. “I thought it was a funny dark comedy and wrote it, but then left it halfway,” he says. He visited the anecdote by 2022 and gave her a new shoot.

Part of Black, White & Grey's Appeal is how Mahabal uses the speaking minds to infuse its socio-cultural worldview in questions such as women's hostility, class differences, state of TV news, taboos in love, etc. Even if the viewers become aware of his narrative trick, the Rashomon species of the story of story of history is ensured. This is mainly due to the convincing faces that directors Trishaan and Shubham find for the interviews and the way Mahabal leads them.

Mayur More (from Kota Factory Fame) is the best-known face in the line-up, but the scene stealer here is Sanjay Kumar Sahu, who plays the accused. The FTII-trained actor and actor and actor orders every scene and plays an ordinary man who is trapped in the most extraordinary circumstances, and one whose moral compass is difficult to read.

While the show is a groundbreaking moment in his career, the filmmaker does not leave the attention, even if he struggles with the expectation that comes in his way. “I have to be careful. I have news” Tum Us Jaise (filmmaker) Mat Ho Jaana “.

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