“What are human beings? Just different colored tokens on the board of life,” says the narrator of Ludo , who happens to be the film’s write...
“What are human beings? Just different colored tokens on the board of life,” says the narrator of Ludo, who happens to be the film’s writer-director Anurag Basu. In his latest anthology with a twist of dark humour, Basu weaves in four stories using the metaphor of the board game in which a roll of the dice can affect the blue, red, yellow and green quadrants.
The director of Life…In A Metro (2007), Barfi! (2012) and Jagga Jasoos (2017) shared his insights into the colour-coded world of his latest feature, which will be streamed on Netflix on November 12.
So is ‘Ludo’ a film about chance and coincidences?
Not entirely. The initial thought was to make a light film that makes you smile; a film that does not take a moral stand. Plus, I wanted to juggle four to five genres in one film, which is a tough thing. At first I didn’t think I would be able to do it but when I began writing the script came together in 15 days and during that process I had made Ludo the motif of the film. Ludo was a metaphor which also became the title, and sometimes you don’t remember what came first.
It’s like conducting an orchestra, but conducting four different...
