Veteran filmmaker Indrajit Lankesh, brother of the late journalist Gauri Lankesh, recently unveiled the motion poster of his highly anticipated film Jai Hind Jai Sindh: A Love Story, a Partition-born romance set against the rich cultural tapestry of Sindh. During the event, Lankesh delivered a candid, unfiltered reflection on filmmaking, storytelling, and mentoring talent, offering the audience a deep dive into his creative philosophy.
When asked why he ventured into the serious and dangerous business of filmmaking, Indrajit said: "Apart from being a serious business it's a passionate uh I don't call it business it's a passionate kind of art art form so I love telling stories and uh it's a different challenge and every day when you're working with new talent uh it's it's a big high it's a kind of a different It gives you a different kick of seeing the energy and seeing the dreams through their eyes and seeing the passion and see the seeing looking at their rawness and creating one kind of a stage and an opportunity for them and when they make it and when they became become stars and successful it's a different height for director who's created them you know and I love working with youngsters I've been working for 26 years kind of giving opportunities who talent whether it's Deepika whether it's Sada whether it's Das, so a lot of people in fact uh I can't it's big list and even now in this film you Puja Katiyal there's Gaurav and there's a lot of people youngsters and it's a fusion of young talent and experienced artists who come together and created this movie and they're working with experienced actors is like you're going with them. You're going through the journey with them. You're taking their inputs and creating together wherein the gangsters kind of it's just rawness that energy coming out on screen and you just have to channelize it as a director. So it's kind of a different high and usion of young talent and experienced artists coming together telling the story."
On making commercial cinema, he added: "I don't believe in from my first film I'm trying to get get into this question of commercial cinema art cinema it's just a story to be told and that's the stage and every film has its own destiny it ends up as a commercial cinema or it's the film ends up in festivals or whether it kinds of parallel cinema it's for the audience to decide you just have to tell a story and it's it has its own destiny it's like a child when you're making it grow. You cannot give it 100% with full commitment and honesty. How the child grows whether he's an intelligent uh child to become the doctor engineer or become an actor or become whatever that's the child's destiny. So it's just like that it's a film's destiny but you try to tell a story how it ends up is for the audience to decide."
The motion poster of Jai Hind Jai Sindh features an ensemble cast including Mahesh Manjrekar, Jaya Prada, Zarina Wahab, Vikram Kochhar, Upasna Singh, and Amit Behl. Produced by Sammy Nanwani, the film draws inspiration from real-life moments from his own journey, blending history, romance, and cultural pride into a cinematic saga that promises both emotional depth and patriotic resonance.
Indrajit Lankesh’s words reflect a filmmaker deeply invested in storytelling, nurturing talent, and allowing each film its natural destiny—showing that behind the glamour of cinema lies a passionate craft, a mentor’s vision, and the unpredictability of artistic creation.