‘Island City’ high on entertainment scale: Vinay Pathak

New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) Actor Vinay Pathak says "IslandCity", which captures the essence of modern life in Mumbai,scores very high on the entertainment scale because of theunique intermingling of tragedy and comedy in the story. The movie marks the directorial debut of Ruchika Oberoi,who has also penned the story about three people dealing withalienation in a big city. Produced by the National Film Development Corporation(NFDC, the film was screened at the 72nd Venice InternationalFilm Festival, where Ruchika won the FEDORA prize for the BestYoung Director. Vinay, who is seen maintaining a poker face throughout thetrailer, says the audience will immediately feel a connect withthe story when they watch it. "It is a story about how all of us are so engrossed in ourdaily life and daily work. How we become our work and workbecomes us and how we start to lose perspective about reality.We forget to enjoy life and have fun… leading to a roboticexistence," Vinay told PTI during a visit here. "I hope word-of-mouth helps the film and people go andwatch it because on the entertainment scale it is very high. Itis very funny, very entertaining and it has a strong emotionalconnect. A good film is like a good piece of literature." Vinay, 48, says it was he who was after Ruchika to get himon board the film. "I knew she was making a film as we have known each other.When she finally gave me the script, I was blown by it. Icalled her right away and said I am on for it." Besides Vinay, the film also stars Tannishtha Chatterjee,Amruta Subhash, who was last seen in "Raman Raghav 2.0" andAshwin Mushran. It releases on September 2. Though Vinay and Tannishtha do not share screen in thefilm, the "Bheja Fry" actor hopes they will get moreopportunities in future to collaborate again. "We didn’t share screen but I hope there are many more tocome. I am very happy to work with Tannishtha." Other than the cast of the film, the crew includingdirector Ruchika and the director of photography SylvesterFonseca, are relative newcomers in the film industry havingvery limited movie making experience. But that did not pose as a problem for Vinay, who says theenthusiasm of the young crew on the sets was verypositive aspect of the shooting of the movie. "The amount of pre-production Ruchika did made the shootvery smooth. She is very daring and brave. Her team were madeof young, enthusiastic people. I am very happy with the factthat she had a vision and she made sure she achieved it," PTIJCHBK