With Mrs Deshpande, Nagesh Kukunoor enters the serial killer genre for the first time in his three-decade-long career. The Hindi adaptation of the French miniseries La Mante stars Madhuri Dixit in a strikingly against-type role.
Mrs Deshpande will be out on JioHotstar on December 19. The cast includes Siddharth Chandekar and Priyanshu Chatterjee. Kukunoor spoke to Scroll about reshaping the original show to suit an Indian milieu, the process of building Mrs Deshpande with Dixit, and his reflections on a milestone year that includes The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case.
What drew you to La Mante? Which part of it felt closest to your own sensibilities?
I’m always looking to do something different. I don’t like to repeat myself. After The Hunt, I wanted to take on something new.
I’ve always wanted to do a serial killer story. I almost did one a few years ago, but it fell through. When Applause came to me with La Mante and I watched it, a bulb went off – the central conflict felt very Indian, something I could expand on. And the chance to create a female serial killer was too good to pass up.
In the French original, the story is told from the cop’s point of view. We have told the story from Mrs Deshpande’s perspective.
What creative decisions were taking while reworking the source...
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