Senior journalist Nishant Bhuse turns filmmaker with movie on 7/11 blast victims

Mumbai: Joining the long list of journalist turned filmmakers is Nishant Bhuse. Bhuse, who has been an investigative journalist for the longest time, reported on the 7/11 blasts with rare emotion for a popular Mumbai tabloid, and is now making a film ‘Baba Retired Zaale’.

The Marathi film is based on the 7/11 serial train blasts that rocked Mumbai in 2006, comes the death of the horrific terrorist attack’s 189th victim this week. Parag Sawant passed away on July 7, after lying in coma for nine years.

This is not the first time a film has touched upon this sensitive subject. There have been a number of Bollywood films including ‘A Wednesday’, and ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’ that shed light on the tragic incident.

Speaking about his film Nishant says, “I came across several shocking human interest stories which were never told. A family’s futile wait for compensation, a father’s never ending struggle with the system, a son who battled for years to return to normal life before succumbing… all of which I seamlessly wove to recreate as a fictitious character.”

BRZ goes on the floors in the third week of August with a month-long shoot across real Mumbai locations. “It’s taken three years of research and intensive screen writing for BRZ to roll with India’s critically acclaimed talents from Marathi and Hindi cinema,” says Bhuse.