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Even documentaries can be made interesting: Jaaved Jaaferi

IANS
November 09, 2012

First Published: 18:27 IST(9/11/2012)
Last Updated: 01:25 IST(10/11/2012)

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Bollywood actor Javed Jafri dancing with cancer-affected children during an event to celebrate Christmas at a hospital in Mumbai.

Actor and filmmaker Jaaved Jaaferi, who is the founder and chairman of Indian Documentary Foundation (IDF), says even documentaries can be made in an interesting manner.

“Documentaries can also be made in an interesting manner. Michael Moore is a famous documentary filmmaker and he has also

seen commercial success,” the 48-year-old said here Wednesday. Jaaved’s production, a documentary titled Inshallah, Football bagged the National Award for best film on social issues this year.

With IDF, Jaaved hopes to encourage documentary filmmaking in India. “We will bring together documentary filmmakers, encourage them, we will bring international documentary makers to train them and increase the documentary making levels. We will also try to assimilate funds to make documentaries and also to incorporate documentaries in mainstream,” Jaaved said. “We may have to take support from Bollywood and stars. There are people who want to support but they don’t know what to do. So IDF’s (Indian Documentary Foundation) motive is to bring up documentaries which mirror reality and show them to people so that there is a consciousness,” he added.

Jaaved feels films and documentaries are the entertainment industry’s way of bringing a change in the society.“To sit with a candle under a Gandhi statue makes no sense, you have to enter the area where the real problem is. It doesn’t create a solution. We have to be practical. Filmmaker makes a film, he makes a point. 3 Idiots, he made a point and it had an effect. So this is our medium, he is doing his work and I am doing mine, everyone is doing their bit,” he said.