Mitu is known for her choice of content, projects and knowledge of what the viewers enjoy. Recently, she produced two episodes of Dangal’s popular non-fiction Crime Alert. The filmmaker, producer, storyteller and content creator who runs her YouTube channel Positive Thinkerz, shares that she believes in catering to the demand and focuses on quality. She talks about her association with the crime show.
“This show also marks my comeback to Dangal after nearly a year and it’s a great feeling. I was very excited,” she continues, “Crime Alert is a wonderful show. Associating such a concept is always a pleasure.”
On the casting process, she adds, “When it comes to casting, I see the characters and think about who can be a good fit. I know a lot of actors so first I mentally go through the list and figure out the right fit. Not just that we also figure new actors who are good on screen.
A big deciding factor for casting is the professional behaviour of an actor on sets and we go with ‘no tantrum’ performers as a rule. If any actor misbehaves on our set we try not to repeat them as we all are professionals who have come together to do a job and that needs to be done professionally. But if some actor is good with us (because we are a very accommodating and chill production set-up) we surely work with them again and again.”
Crime-based shows always find an audience. “That is because everyone is intrigued to find out how crime happens and what motivates people to take such drastic steps, and such things are solved. While writing and shooting also, it gets disturbing sometimes as the extent of crime is unnerving,” she shares.
Mitu has been doing Crime Alert for some time now. She is thankful to the support extended by Manish Singhal, owner of Dangal who has faith in her and her team. “We also did crime episodes in one of our Atrangii, Nishabd and might also be doing a crime anthology for OTT. Talks are on,” she says.
About the difficulties one faces while producing crime-based shows, Mitu explains, “While doing crime shows, the stories sometimes are so gory that it shakes you up. Then convincing some actors to do it is another task. Finally, to fit the kind of crime on the budget and do it properly is the toughest challenge always. You can never go wrong or too gory for something that is usually watched by a variety of audiences and does not fall under restricted viewing.”
