Goldie Behl talks on rumoured remake issue coming up with his web series RejectX
Film maker Goldie Behl has returned to his director’s chair after a gap of two years. His last remembered directorial was the majestic TV show called Aarambh. After trying his luck in both cinema and TV, this time the platinum director is making his digital debut, which he believes is a coalition between the two platforms he has worked in.
As the musical show RejectX, marking the digital debut of Goldie has released on Zee5 on 25 July, he also arranged a special screening of the show and had been in talks with several news platforms.
Opening up a lot on both his work and personal front ranging from direction to keeping up with their struggle while dealing with wife, Sonali Bendre’s cancer episode, he expressed it all.
Speaking on whether RejectX is a ‘spiritual’ sequel of Remix, he said, “That’s an interesting question. That’s an interesting way to put it. RejectX is me growing up and growing young at the same time. I was much younger when I made Remix. Now, I’m living my teenage through my kid and my nephew. I find it (RejectX) [to be] a contemporary yet different version of that (Remix). Yes, it has music. Yes, it has a high school setting. Yet it is far more real because the times are such, the platform is such that we can afford to be more real. So you could say they’re integrated at some point. But they’re very different.”
Throwing light on how he managed to ensure that he didn’t get struck between nostalgia and current times, Goldie Behl mentioned, “The setting of the show is an international school. It’s in Singapore and has students from various cultures there. I always wondered why only Americans make high school movies. We can make a high school show that’s about Indians, set in an international setting. That’s why one of the primary antagonists in the show is of Thai origin. He speaks in English, though with a Thai accent.”
He further added, “I’m grateful to Zee 5 for putting money where its mouth is. The show is about many Indian students from all walks of life, who resolve their differences in a global school. They soon form a band and participate in the underground music battle. But one of them gets kidnapped. The rest of the show revolves around how they find him, how close to the finale of a competition they find him, what state they find him in, and if he’ll be able to come back from the rejection he has faced. At the same time, they’re dealing with their own rejections, from gender fluidity, erectile dysfunction, body shaming, to dysfunctional families, suicidal tendencies. Any young person can face these global issues. That’s why this show is likely to work across barriers.”
RejectX premieres on Zee5 on 25 July.
