The highly anticipated Documentary series Angry Young Men is set to stream on Amazon Prime Video on the 20th of August. The show follows the story of Hindi Cinema's legendary writer team Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar's story. The documentary series directed by Namrata Rao garnered immense attention and love from the audience.
Namrata Rao opens up about directing the film
Talking about directing Angry Young Men, Namrata Rao reveals, that Zoya and she were doing the anthology Lust Stories together. Zoya has done this anthology series where she was editing for Zoya, and they used to talk about a lot of Films, documentaries and that's when Zoya told her that she had this idea of doing the film, documentary on Salim and Javed and she wanted to call it Angry Young Men and she was taken up by it. She thought it would be great and they spoke a lot about it during the pandemic 2020, Zoya Asked her if she would like to direct it. She was looking to direct for some time and she thought it would be a great opportunity. So She said yes, immediately and that's how it happened. When she started she knew it was going to be a great responsibility on how the story is told, whether it comes to full potential, you know because they have this huge body of work.
Namrata's takeaway from the experience