‘ Trishna’ the movie…

Just about everything looks absolutely gorgeous in "Trishna," director Michael Winterbottom's new romantic drama: the scenery, the costumes, the cinematography, you name it. All this beauty will end badly, though, as "Trishna" is based on Thomas Hardy's classic tragedy, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles." Taking place in contemporary Rajasthan, India, the film chronicles the doomed relationship between Jay (Riz Ahmed), the wealthy son of a property developer, and Trishna (Pinto), the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.

FILM INTERVIEW: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM

“We were able to locate the story in a very specific place. We spent a lot of time talking to people in Rajasthan – and specifically in Osian and Jodhpur – about the story, and how it would make sense in their lives. And in the end we found a family whose father drives a Jeep – the Jeep we use in the film – and we used them and their house and so on – and inserted our characters into their world. Then when Jay and Trishna move to Mumbai they are on the fringe of the Bollywood industry. So, the people we were working with, like Anurag Kashyap and Amit Trivedi, their world became the world within our film.”