Filmmaker collaborates with city artists for biopic on Abhinandan

Neha Saini

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 30

Journalist-turned-filmmaker PC Aditya, who has been actively making short films down South, is set to make another one based on Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. The Dadasaheb Phalke Memorial 2015 awardee, who also entered the Limca Book of Records for making 100 short films in 100 days, will reportedly make a 30-minute short film, ‘Pilot Abhinandan’ on the IAF hero in three languages — Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.

Aditya was on a brief trip to Amritsar for recce and also to collaborate with city-based music composer Harvinder Sohal for his project.

“A song for the film has already been recorded in Tamil, and its Hindi version is what I will be working on. The tone of the music for the film will be nationalist and it would touch a chord with the audience and listeners,” said Sohal.

Arvinder Chamak, general secretary, IAFA and an artist, would also be penning down a song for the Hindi version of the film. Aditya will be shooting for the film towards the end of May.

Known for his knack of shooting films in a single go, given that he has shot films in a day as well, Aditya will be taking some time as the film “deserves utmost respect”. “Since it will be the first biopic on Abhinandan, a national hero, I feel proud to work on it and want to take care of each detail. The film will show three different aspects of the pilot’s life – his family and college life, his training as a pilot and eventually, the facts and happenings surrounding his capture and release. It’s an extraordinary story,” said PC Aditya, who is also reportedly working on a feature length biopic of the Telugu actor Kathi Kanta Rao, who received the President’s Award for his work and is known to have worked in over 400 films.