'It's more like William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' as applied to the politics of India, ' Mishra told. He will shoot 'Devdas' in the deserts of Rajasthan.
'I want those vast stretches of sand for dramatic emphasis, ' said Mishra who has made films like 'Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi' and 'Chameli'.
The truth is never far away from Mishra's cinema. He now wants to make a new genre of cinema, what he calls a 'mockumentary'.
'It'd be shot in the documentary style. The events would all be dramatic recreations of real incidents. I'm planning to apply this format to my film on the life of doctor-activist Binayak Sen, the child specialist in Chhattisgarh who has been accused of sedition and jailed.
'It is interesting to film the lives of real characters who are caught in a moral crisis. In that sense the life of Binayak Sen is no different from that of 'Hamlet' or 'Devdas', ' he said.