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In my college I used to hang out with a guy called Ramesh who was a kind of a street goonda. Those days there used to be a lot of hobnobbing between students and goonda elements. Ramesh was a very feared guy in the locality and me and my friends used to be in awe [...]

1. Is Phoonk a copied version of the Exorcist? Ans: Exorcist was about demonic possession and Phoonk is about black magic. Black magic is according to legend the application of an evil force to harm or kill an enemy. So in that sense there is no similarity. But yes in the emotional aspect of the [...]

I always find it very strange the tendency of people to emphasise on whose idea it is rather than the idea itself. I for one have been credited many times for innovative ideas and also discovering so many talents both in actors and technicians. But did it occur to anyone what I might have thought [...]

1. Did you apprenticeship under anyone? Ans: No. 2. Is it possible for someone to direct without any prior experience? Ans: The only thing you need to direct, is the clarity of your own vision and the ability to communicate it to your cast and crew. Experience has got nothing to do with it. 3. [...]

When I first came to Bombay from Hyderabad I couldn’t get over a train ride through the Dharavi slums. It looked like one single roof and I wondered how people live there, how anybody can go in and go out. I saw children 2-years old crawling just about 3 feet away from the railway track [...]

Ever since I can remember I was always an atheist. I never went to a temple, and even when there was Ganpati puja at home my only interest was in the sweets and that I could keep the text books away at the idol for three days. That was the custom back in South. The [...]

1. You could have explored the connect between the janata and the Nagres more and shown their compassion for Shankar’s death? Ans: If you noticed I have always treated the people who idolize Sarkar very ambiguously. They are almost ghostly in their demeanour. Case in point is when Sarkar gets arrested in Sarkar-I. Instead of [...]

BAHUT LAMBI KAHANI HAI YEH The idea of wanting to do something with “Sholay” came approximately around five to six years ago. One day I got a call from Sasha Sippy saying that his grandfather Mr. G. P. Sippy wants to meet me. As he is a respected man by all, as well as the [...]

Since I am not a net savvy guy and only just now entered this world I made a startling discovery. I have never read reviews beyond 3 to 4 Mumbai based newspapers ever and I thought that was it. On the net there are literally hundreds of reviews. When I went through them I was [...]

1. Shouldn’t we make films which can make an impact on the world? Ans: Hello, you are talking to the maker of AAG and also I believe in making films such as what I want to see. 2. I don’t think you’ve made any bad films, some of them just didn’t work. Ans: Films should [...]