How ‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ became a zero-waste film set
The Hindu
The Abhishek Kapoor-directorial won the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival award for the unique distinction
Did you know that around 17,000 kgs of waste from the sets of Hindi film were diverted from landfills and instead composted, recycled, or donated? This amounts to over 95 per cent of the shoot’s waste that did not end up in landfills. The effort to make this mainstream film set a zero-waste one was carried forward by co-producer Pragya Kapoor in association with Skrap, an environment sustainability firm that that works on finding zero-waste solutions for businesses.
Directed by and produced by T-Series in collaboration with Guy In The Sky Pictures, Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui (now streaming on Netflix) revolves around the story of a transwoman’s (Vani Kapoor) relationship with a Punjabi body-builder (Ayushmann Khurrana). Even as the film attempts to break stereotypes in gender spaces, it was also recently awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Award for a zero-waste film set, a unique distinction in the film fraternity.
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