TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING

Brutal honesty…sometimes it’s illuminating, sometimes it’s shocking, sometimes it builds community, and sometimes it reveals wide gaps. But most often, it’s actually not something that everyone feels comfortable with or can smoothly communicate.
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So if you are an artist and a storyteller, and if your preferred style of expression is to showcase honesty as a proxy of your philosophies, then the nature of your work becomes a march toward sharing your core and exposing it for everyone to experience.
Recently, I caught up with award-winning filmmaker, writer, director, and producer Vivek Agnihotri, to share a conversation and find out more about how his internal compass on religion, politics, patriotism, and more get reflected and ultimately received by the world. Vivek is from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh in India and after college started his career in advertising before making films like Chocolate, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal , Junooniyat, and Buddha in a Traffic Jam. For his latest films, Vivek has concentrated on sharing stories from independent India, in highlighting the work of women scientists in the Vaccine Wars, and navigating through a series of historical fiction with the Tashkent Files, the Kashmir Files, and the soon to be released Delhi files. Naturally, in a culture and world that mingles every national story into the weeds of sociopolitics, much like the communities we live in, the work can garner a spectrum of reactions from shock and pain and disbelief, to moving respect and praise and solidarity. Nonetheless, it takes a boldness and fearless courage to find peace and enlightenment in being honest with yourself and seeking to advance conversation and dialogue. We chatted about his ongoing journey and how empathy, trust, pride, fear, and philosophy may guide his expressions and even what he enjoys talking about when he meets with youth or on his own podcast called Brutally Honest. But as everyone was celebrating the Indian cricket team that recently won the T20 world cup, I asked him if filmmaking had the same power to rally and inspire and motivate in a parallel way?