It’s colourful, it’s loud, it’s all beautiful, but it is in your face so we have tried to keep it very subdued,” she said.
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“In Hindi films and TV serials, everything is over the top. Mitakshara Kumar believes that the show has a “very international look” as things aren’t over the top.
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I think our entire series could be made in the budget they use for just 1-2 episodes.” She added, “If despite having a fraction of the budget, we are still being compared to Game of Thrones, I think somewhere we have done something right.” Dino Morea on the set of The Empire. “You want to compare our show to Game of Thrones? Give us the budget of Game of Thrones. She laughingly told us that she first thought “they have dragons and zombies, how can people compare?” But soon enough, she had a fairly strong argument to those comparing the two. While Mitakshara was a little confused in the beginning about such comparisons, she has taken it in her stride now.
The Empire’s visual aesthetic is being compared to HBO’s Game of Thrones ever since the show’s trailer first dropped. Talking about the ratio of history to fiction in a historical fiction setup, Mitakshara shared that “as long as you are staying true to the event that happened, it is okay to dramatise the story around it.” But she was quick to add, “You can’t change history.” She added that as a filmmaker, it is her responsibility towards the material and history to not tamper with the facts.Īlso Read | Dino Morea on playing anti-hero Shaybani Khan in The Empire: ‘Had to bring out animal instincts of the character’
The authenticity of facts in historicals is often questioned but to be translated on screen, almost all projects are fairly fictionalised. It is giving you a visual scale, yet it is not going overboard in either,” Mitakshara shared. I honestly wanted to make something in the middle which is not so larger than life that you lose the story but, on the other hand, it is not a documentary either.
“There is an honesty to Bharat Ek Khoj and there’s a certain scale and grandeur to Bajirao Mastani or Padmavat. Director Mitakshara Kumar on the set of The Empire.