Featuring some well-known actors like Sanjay Mishra, Saharash Kumar Shukla, Indira Tiwari, Paritosh Tripathi, Rajendra Gupta, Natasha Rashtogi, Priyanshu Singh Rajput, Harrveer Singh, ‘Bed Stories’ released on 7th July on Disney+Hotstar. The series which is produced by Sooraj Khanna and Puneet Shukla and directed by Arpita Pattanayak has already gone viral.
Talking about the same, director Arpita Pattanayak said, “The concept of “Bed Stories” came in my mind five years back when as a director I was stuck in Mumbai in my struggling days and was desperate to tell my stories to my audience. I felt just like the bed in “Bed Stories” who desperately wants to interact with the outer world and tell all his stories but no one can hear them. The diversified struggle of different couple coming to the room was developed in a way that every story should be completely different from each other bringing some hard-hitting subjects in a very simple way of storytelling.”
She further says, “As a story and screenplay writer, I wanted to stick to the fact that every story should be about the struggle of our dream and fantasy with the hardcore reality of the world. For the world, pandemic was unfortunate but for me it was blessing in disguise, as that was the time when everyone was stuck in an enclosed space and living their lives mostly in one room. My producers Sooraj Khanna and Puneet Shukla instantly felt this is the time when people will understand this story and the process of making started.”
“As we decided to place the stories in a not so urban city, we thought of making the base of the story as Banaras. So we needed to bring Banaras’s diction and flavour in the dialogues of all the characters. Producer Sooraj Khanna again took a big decision of not taking an industry-experienced dialogue writer, rather we decided to bring someone fresh, so, Sufi Khan came on board who has put all his heart and soul to add some beautiful inputs and Banaras flavoured dialogues into it. Bang on! We were ready to make a series which has been shot in one single location!” she added.
Talking about the challenges faced during the filming of the series, Arpita revealed, “The biggest challenge was to portray the stories in a way so that it never become trapped by the monotony of the single room location. The screenplay needed to be very gripping and crisp and shots needed to be diversified so that viewers will not even feel the boredom, rather they will be swayed by the emotions of the characters and feel the pain of the Bed (Sanjay Mishra) stuck in one hotel room.”
The series also features actors like Vikas Shukla, Chetan Sharma, Taneea Rajawat, Gazal Sood, Altaf Hussain, Jiya J Solanki, Tripurai Yadav, Junaid Khan and many more. Viewers are loving it for the freshness of the stories with this unique concept of Bed, played by Sanjay Mishra.
“Bed Stories” is again a victory of the content-driven plots as it has been made with heart and sweat by independent filmmakers and it is already touching hearts!