Aditya Suhas Jambhale is on cloud nine after the success of his Netflix supernatural film Baramulla. This is his second directorial venture after Article 370 (2024). Interestingly, both were produced by Aditya Dhar of Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019) fame. In an exclusive interview with Bollywood Hungama, Aditya Suhas Jambhale opened up about his bond with Aditya Dhar.
A screening of Baramulla was held for the press on Thursday, November 6, a day before its Netflix release. Aditya Dhar made a point to make it to the screening along with Aditya Suhas Jambhale though the former is neck-deep with the last-minute work on his ambitious directorial venture, Dhurandhar, starring Ranveer Singh. Aditya Suhas Jambhale said, “Aditya and I go back a long way. He knows me and even tolerates me so well! I didn’t even text him if he was going to ask. I knew he and Lokesh Dhar would come. Aditya made it a point to even wait for the cast and crew screening as well.”
Aditya Suhas Jambhale explained how he got in touch with Aditya Dhar, “I made 2 short films, both of which won the National Award. My third film, Amritsar Junction, had chaste Punjabi dialogues. I cast Dhairya Karwa, who also worked in Uri. I asked him to play the role of a Punjabi character. But he was apprehensive as he had played a Punjabi character before; he feared being typecast. Meanwhile, Aditya is his mentor and Dhairya told him about me and my Punjabi film. Aditya read the story of Amritsar Junction and told Dhairya, ‘You’ll be mad to turn down this film. You have to do it, even if you don’t get paid. It's very critical for you’. He met me and revealed that Aditya Dhar persuaded him to sign my film.”
Aditya Suhas Jambhale continued, “Meanwhile, my second film, Kharvas, got the National Award. The same year, Uri also got a National Award honour. We met in Delhi and I thanked him; it was thanks to him that Dhairya came on board and thereby helped me in completing my film. He insisted on watching the film. I showed him immediately. He was so impressed that he bought the film and came on board as presenter.”
He added, “Then he called me to Mumbai. This was the time when he was making The Immortal Ashwatthama with RSVP. This is when Aditya and I had a bit of resistance; this is the reason I say that he tolerates me! He wanted me to join his team as he wanted someone from an engineering background and at the same time had a creative bent of mind since The Immortal Ashwatthama was a mammoth, technical project. But I went to meet him, hoping to land a chance to direct a film. Instead, he asked me to join him and said that it would help me gain experience. He said, ‘Shooting a short film is different. You need to go through this grind’. I politely declined his offer. This is because I started making short films and opened up my production house only because I wanted to avoid the process of assisting anybody.”
Aditya Suhas Jambhale then revealed, “I went back to Goa. But the beauty of that man was that he called me the next day and told me, ‘I am sorry if I have offended you’. I replied, ‘No you have not offended me. This is my nature. This is how I have decided my course. I am not going to assist anybody. I have to be the captain of the ship, even if it’s a small-budget film’. He recognized that.”
At the Baramulla screening, Aditya Dhar joked that Aditya Suhas Jambhale doesn’t pick up calls once he is back in his home state. Aditya Suhas Jambhale reacted to it, “But that’s how I am; I am a Goan! I am not someone who would carry a mobile phone with desperation that somebody would call or I might miss a golden opportunity. This was new for Aditya Dhar as he was used to meeting people dying to get a chance to work with him. Suddenly, he came across this guy who was chilled and not too desperate. I told him that he needs to get used to my Goan nature (laughs).”
Aditya Suhas Jambhale continued with his story, “Two months later, he called me and said that he wanted to launch me as a director. He offered me a romcom. I told him that it was not my genre. He once told me, ‘Jambhale, you have a problem. You say no to everything’! But once he happened to tell me of a horror film in Kashmir. I liked the idea and promised to work on it. He told me, ‘You’ll go to Goa and not pick up my phone’! I promised that I’d be back with something. So, I didn’t sign anything. That was my understanding with Aditya Dhar. There was no written contract.”
He exulted, “I spent around 6 months writing and researching. Aditya didn’t ask me anything. He realized that I am different and hence, he had to treat me differently. I went back in January 2022 and submitted the final screenplay with Hindi dialogues.” Baramulla was finally shot in December 2022 and January 2023. Aditya Suhas Jambhale then also shot Article 370, which, incidentally, was released first.
Before signing off, Aditya Suhas Jambhale spoke highly of Dhurandhar, which is all set to release on December 5. It’s the film that Aditya Dhar finally made after The Immortal Ashwatthama was kept on the back burner. Jambhale said, “Dhurandhar will be a hit. Aditya has worked hard and has sacrificed so many things to make that film. I am pretty confident about it. I tell him, ‘I am not worried about it. I am sure it would be kickass’. I have not seen the film, but whatever has come out and what I have seen is promising.”
Also Read: Aditya Suhas Jambhale reveals Baramulla’s shoot was one of the TOUGHEST shoots in HISTORY: “BIGGEST of actors refused to do the film as they thought the topic was sensitive…every day, 5-6 crew members would be absent due to HYPOTHERMIA attacks; production team SCREAMED at me for shooting intro scene SECRETLY”
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