MUMBAI: Director Ram Madhvani whose next venture is a web series called ‘Bodhidharma: Master of Shaolin’ says he initially thought of making the story of this warrior into a film.
After the success of ‘Neerja’ Ram will helm a web series called ‘Bodhidharma: Master of Shaolin’. The historical series will trace the story of a warrior prince in sixth century who became the founder of martial arts and Shaolin temple in China.
Ram, who is collaborating with lyricist-writer Prasoon Joshi for this project reveals they first wanted to make this initially into a feature film.
“Then some months ago we came across Aparna from Amazon Prime (where the series will be streamed)and she asked us to consider to make it into a series and Prasoon and I jumped at it. It began as a feature film but it will be a series now,” Ram said.
Considering Ram is going back in time for this historical fiction series, he doesn’t fear any backlash as he has done extensive research on the subject.
“We are making a web series on ‘Bodhi Dharma…’ and I don’t fear any backlash. I would fear backlash if I have not researched on the subject. We have had enough people to help us in the research,” Ram said.
“We are not worried about putting together the accuracy of the period, characters and subject. It is historical fiction in terms of characters and not the period,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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