Generation Now, Cannes and… Cash
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A few months back there was a screenwriting conference at the FTII, where there was a lot of bullshitting going on. Even some of the people there had no idea about writing and had written some terrible scripts. Today, the problem is that people theorize too much. They think they have become events, before they have actually become events. Before you know it, people are masters and actually when they talk they are writing Oscar speeches and they seemed not confused at all and they seemed to know everything.
And I find that stunning about some of the younger people. There is more conversation than an attempt to hone talent. Of course, there are exceptions too, like Anurag Kashyap, for example.
Often, I find a lot of the young film makers of today and the young people of today, like the intellectual bull-shitters of the 1960s and 70s. They are all talking from the back-covers of books. In the 1960s people theorized but I never saw the theory in the films. The films never reflected what they said. Sometimes what they said was very interesting. But, today, when I hear some of these young people talk, sometimes, it’s very interesting, but I never see it in the film!
That’s my attempt always, to forget the last film that I make. For example, Hazaaron… is a burden after a while. Because if you start thinking about it too much, you start trying to figure out how it worked, then you start mimicking yourself, in a sense. So not that you forget totally, because you are the guy who made Hazaaron, because you have changed also and you allow yourself to be who you are now and not try and be who you were four years ago and you try to make films that let you be who are at that time. That’s all it is. You try and tell a story or you try and make a film and try and put in whoever you are that time.
For instance, in that conference, there was only one statement, which I carried back with me. A lady who was an academic quoted a Persian saying – “the best story is that which combines what has happened to you, with what you are seeing”. I think – absolutely. That’s it.
Beyond that, every time you make a film it is a humiliating experience for me – within myself, because you have a notion of yourself and every time you feel you will be caught out this time. There’s so much mediocrity that comes out from within us. And every time you begin a film and you try to write, the first draft is so bad.
So, it’s just what I believe in and try to do. And beyond that, what is there, I don’t know.
I think you have to prepare for cinema in your life. You are like a painter and the stroke that you make at that time is what you do. So, when I shoot, whatever I am, if I am well prepared as an individual or as a film maker, it will fall right and if I don’t – I don’t. And if I try to be clever and I am not saying that you shouldn’t – to each his own. It’s a personal method. The problem about talking about cinema, art, creativity, is that it is very personal to each. There is no one way. The problem with me is that if I try and be clever – I fall flat. So I try not to think about making a film like Amores Perros or Kagaz ke Phool and I don’t want to make a success formula like the Yashraj film. And I try to stay clear of influences.
And I think young people today see too many films. I think it’s a bad thing. You should live life a bit, otherwise there’s a danger of being pretentious. If there is too much of conversation there’s a danger of dropping names like Amorres Perros without having any notion of the life Innaritu has lived, the context in which he has lived, the society which he stems from. It’s exactly the same as when we were growing up in cinema and saying, let’s take a Tarkovsky shot. You can’t take a Tarkovsky shot – because he’s Russian, he’s Christian, he’s reactionary. Tarkovsky is a very …very reactionary man. He is very deeply religious in a sense – he’s spiritual and within that, because he’s so truthful and because he is so much steeped in Russian literature, painting, poetry, folklore – he’s Russian to the core – and therefore that shot. So how can you take that shot? It’s the biggest piece of bullshit and in the 70s and the 60s, at the FTII a lot of guys used to come and teach that kind of thing. Luckily, Tarkovsky wrote a book and you discovered he didn’t like Fellini. So, many notions he had which seemed very idiotic to us but he lived with it and he found his medium in it – and Andrei Rubeliov, Ivan’s childhood and Solaris I think are great, but I can’t mimic them. I can’t make them.
And I’ve also found this odd about some of the young people today that they can live simultaneously with Ayn Rand and Bob Dylan and Fellini – these are all disparate people who actually hated one another and they had conflicting philosophies and therefore I don’t know if they have read Ayn Rand correctly…they are only interested in the surface of what it is. I don’t they are affected by Fellini – I don’t think Fellini changes their lives – I don’t think he enters into their soul. It’s just a notion of ‘I like fellini’ and you are supposed to say it.
I personally prefer a person who says – Boss, I can’t understand Fellini. I would welcome a person who would say, what the fuck is Fellini or I don’t understand La Dolce Vita.
I would say that man has actually seen it with feeling and not liked it – he’s reacting to it. Not a person- who superficially is supposed to like it – likes it. I don’t think you are supposed to like anything as an artist. You can dislike everything, except the medium that you are working on. The act of film making is simultaneously an act of arrogance and an act of humility. You can hate anybody – Yash Chopra, Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra, Aditya Chopra, Ram Gopal Varma – even Martin Scorcese and Satyajit Ray. As long as you give us an experience that is yours. That is the arrogance of the film maker. But you have to be humble before the medium. The only thing you cannot be arrogant about is the medium, or life, or yourself. That’s all.
It’s about time, in fact that people said (M.F) Hussain is a bullshitter. It’s about time that the so many haloed personalities and the hypocrisy of India, where people say stupid things without understanding the basics … It’s about time, people start talking. I think there is too much hush-hush, even in the world of art and creativity – people don’t express their opinion. I think it is good to express opinion. This kind of bullshitting should stop. It’s about time to express.
I have no problem with a person who doesn’t like my work. I am very much willing to listen to him – if he’s a regular human being, he can say what he wants, if he’s a film maker, he should show me through his films, then I am not interested in his conversation.
A young person who wants to make films is absolutely entitled to say – who the fuck is Sudhir Mishra. Except that in some point in life, he has to show me through his films.
I am very interested in people who see films and don’t just like or dislike them but who are affected by them – who see films like they live life. When they go and see a film, they see a film as an alternate reality, like an experience of somebody else and enter that experience and then express. I am very much interested in that audience. Because, art or cinema is a dialogue. It’s a conversation with someone. I am not mumbling to myself. When I make a film – I am talking to somebody- otherwise what’s the point of a release! My function is that of a storyteller. If I try and define who I am – I am not a doctor, or an engineer and I am not a very big money make either, so who am I? I am a story teller, and I tell stories to anybody who is interested in listening to my stories. I come into a theater, like an old man in a village comes under a tree, and whoever wants to listens, can listen. And that’s our function. That’s all it is. And even if you deeply affect some people … Some people would say that you are justifying your situation. But I really think, it is better to deeply affect a minority than to superficially titillate a majority. I seriously think.
Be careful about “Cannes and Cash”…
Some films that go to Cannes are very good films and the Cannes film festival is a very exciting place and I go there every year just to know my place in the world. It’s the only indulgence I allow myself and I also go there because a lot of friends from all over the world meet and you can talk to a lot of people and understand their predicaments and issues they are tackling in their heads. Otherwise, in India, you get too isolated; you get to think only what Yashraj is doing, for example. So, it’s important to get out of that and to get a perspective in the world. Cannes is a great festival. I really think so. I only think you cannot make a film so that it gets to Cannes or it earns a lot of money. You make a film. That’s the only way to do it. Then, try your best to market it. Because, it is important today. George Bernard Shaw said, “You cannot work hard on something without preparing its reception.” So, in a sense you have to prepare it’s reception as well and you market it. And that’s another game, which is essential today or maybe essential. But, don’t let that affect the film. Don’t make what the marketers tell you to make. Make something that you want to make and then market it. It’s just the chronology of it that is important. I am not talking against marketing.
And what really affects me and what I really love is when a person who doesn’t know me, in some city in India, some boy or girl, see my film, buy a ticket and get affected and they will never meet me.
If you ask me why I make films. Then, that’s why I make film and because I can talk to so many people. That’s the primary reason why I make a film.
And I also like the fact that you get fame and earn a bit of money, it is also part of it. That’s okay. In everything you do, you are entitled to earn a living. I don’t consider myself superior for instance and that is a fact…I don’t consider myself superior at all to my father. That’s the lesson. I don’t consider myself superior to my paternal grandfather who was a doctor and my father who was a mathematician or any of my uncles who are in various jobs, or my sister who teaches in a college or my brother in law who is a nuclear physicist. I am not superior to any of them. I am just like them.
I don’t buy into this ‘artist has more rights than other people’. I think that’s the biggest piece of shit. Because I am an artist I am allowed to vomit! Because I am an artist I am allowed to kill my wife, for instance! bullshit! You are an artist, you are not allowed to kill your wife. If you do, you should suffer the same fate as any one else. I am pretty clear about that. And that’s what living with Renu Saluja taught me also. I don’t buy into those special job perquisites that artists are supposed to have.
I have a dog called Chance. When he sees a wave, he jumps. Why does he jump? Nobody fourteen years later would know there was a dog called Chance. He jumps, because he is there and the wave is there. He’s participating in the world. He’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing within the limits we have given them. Because as human beings, we have controlled the world and we are the super race so the animals have to adjust to us and within that you see him participate. And that’s what I am as a film maker.
There’s a great footballer, for example, a man called Gary Lineker who was the captain of England. In the 1986 World cup when Maradona became very famous, in the same world cup, Gary Lineker scored the most number of goals. So, they asked Gary Lineker, who scores the maximum number of goals. Is it the person who is at the right place at the right time? He said, “No…You have to be in the right place all the time. Then, sometimes the ball comes to you.”
So, you have to make films, or you have to be in preparation all the time and sometimes the story comes to you. It will be given to every film maker 5 or 6 times in his life. If he is lucky because of his brain receptor, or DNA or accidental influences or where he is accidentally at that time – because of all that, if he’s lucky he’ll come at that time – like it came to Kurosowa or Fellini. Most of the time, you know most of film makers have 5-6 films – the ball comes to them 5-6 times and at that time there are no obstacles and there is no good defender or the producer is willing and they get the finance because it depends a lot on that. If they don’t fall sick or they don’t have an accident, they don’t die. Because, there might have been a very great film maker who might have made a film, but he died. How would you know! There may be so many potentially great film makers who died in a flood; you are lucky because you didn’t.
So, this idea of total control is totally non scientific and bullshit. But, again, you try; every time you try and go to the right place and that’s all you can do.
I try and go to the right place every place, but is my life in my hands or is it in the hands of the taxi driver who is driving me. C’mon, if he has a bad day with his wife, or there’s some other bus driver who has had a bad day – here I am sitting – and over and done with Sudhir Mishra. Big deal – I am in control of my life! These are all notions that you sell, but you exist in chaos. The universe is chaos and there is only probability.
So, it’s probable that I’ll make three good films. That’s all you can say. It’s not certain. Again, my father was a mathematician. Unfortunately I am influenced by him, so I know these things. It’s only probable. It’s all an accident. The world is an accident. The creation of this universe is an accident. Who the hell are we! Who the hell am I to say that I am not an accident!
There’s so much arrogance that it’s crap.
People who strut around – and you know – today – for example, in India there are so many stars who strut around. Mussolini died and Hitler died and Ronald Reagon died … and they will also die. All of them will die. And they behave as if they won’t! Oh, c’mon. they behave as if they won’t. There’s so much arrogance. It’s idiotic.
Personally, for me again, it doesn’t mean you don’t try. You try every day to come to the right place. But you know the ball might not come to you, because of 5000 reasons. That’s all.
Do I think these times are any better for Indian filmmaking?
This is again a very stupid notion. A notion born out of illiteracy.
‘What is the past is not necessarily a classic, what is the present, is not necessarily
modern.’
C’mon, Neils Bohr is a more modern man than most of the film makers working in India today. There are exceptions and at every point, people are trying and at every point there are some individuals to whom it is given the burden of expressing themselves. And every moment in history there are many people who have tried.
So, again, today, young people say that we are changing. C’mon, every one was modern according to their time. So Guru Dutt was modern according to his time and hopefully somebody will be modern according to our time. The best films are those that cross time. The only way to know what was a good film is twenty years after it was made.
Twenty years later, after it was made, we figure out if it was a classic or not. If it still resonates. Because, sometimes immediate controversies or events determine reactions to films. That’s all there is. And I think there are many young people today who are very talented. I seriously think. And I seriously think the audience today is very talented. And the audience is more talented than the film maker.
There’s a great French playwright. His name is Jean Genet. He says, “ some nights the audience have genius. ”
And a lot of young people…but so they were in the 50s, so they were in the 60s, 70s. My generation, for example – in the 70s I was growing up, I was in my teens, in the 80s I was in my twenties, but you know the problems with the 60s, 70s and the 80s guys in India is that they think only they lived. They always go – in our times!
But this is the world we gave the young. The young are not responsible for this world. They didn’t make it. The over 40s and the 50s are the people who are controlling this world. And those are the baby boomer generations and whatever. And I think the young manage within the world you gave them.
So, I mean, I don’t see this young-whacking which my generation indulges in. I just feel that a lot of young people should be aware of how they are being controlled.
Know yourself and know the world.
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Sudhir ji:
Many thanks for this post. This is (atleast at present) most valuable contribution to the PFC, made by anyone so far. Reading it was like riding on the sinusoidal curve, sometime on peak and sometime on bottom. Its a lively post, full of bytes about life, real life. It can come only through deep interest towards life.
Thanks a million for this wonderful post.
Great post and love the quote by Gary Lineker!! Some people wait for opportunity to knock but the others who continue to plug away at doing what they love because it’s their way of breaking the damn door down are the ones to be reckoned with. Funny you mention not understanding Fellini.. I started watching “Amarcord” and couldn’t get past the 15th minute.. jumped around way too much for me.. am willing to give his films another chance, but not sure which one to go with…
thank you for this lovely read
Spot on, sir, about disparities in the greatest of filmmakers. Loved the examples you put up. (But, at the same time, I do think it’s very much natural to love disparate ways of filmmaking, content-wise or form-wise.)
And, yeah, I remember your interview at The Hindu where you said, you avoid the 3 C-s — Cash, Cannes and Crossover!!
Thanks,
Zero
Sudhir Ji:
Dont know if you treat your posts as you treat your films. Mean dont look back. It looks little odd also if we put up comment on post of someone who has seen more life and have gained far deeper understanding and who has revealed his creative side many times and has converted his creative ideas and his understanding about life in to his films. and If we write here, its great post, and we are obliged etc, then it really look little odd but problem is there is no other way to show appreciation. Some how we have to convert impression we have got in to the words. Though someone observing from outside may say that when we add comments on posts like this made by a person like you, then its like less capable people are trying to admire work of more capable persons, but really ways of appreciation are limited.
Once again thanks a lot for this post.
Hi Sudhir,
I myself am a struggling filmmaker… i must say that this post has really put an insight into me in terms of what i was not seeing or what i am conditioned to see. Very educative sir… good one. Waiting for many more.
Sudhir Mishra…..I dont know about many names that you said here… and I dont think I should know them to write this…..but yeah I have been reading some posts here and what the hell man same old propaganda with a few exceptions though…i felt like these Non Conformists become tomorrow’s Stereotypes…..and i identify with one thing(I said I didn’t know most of them)
Ayn Rand has become a propaganda……anyways leave it…..
by the way Mr.Mishra Hazaaron Kwaishein Aisi was a no nonsense love story.
Thanks but Arrogant
Madhu Chandra
Fantastic absolutely fantastic post.I’ve always enjoyed your interviews and liked Hazaron Kwaishein Aisi. Hope to see many more of your posts on PFC.
Sudhir sir it’s so true and i wonder how u keep in touch with the thought process of younger generation so closely.In all engineering colleges you can find students suffering from “Howard Roark syndrome” and at the same time listening to blowing in the wind. They misbehave with teachers, become cold and indifferent towards parents as if it is a sign of strength. Infact even a film maker in bollywood is also suffering with a similar syndrom. All his protagonist never smile, are cold and indifferent, even he attempted his roark as a dancer!!Regarding the “Pseudo-intellectual” bullshit, thats one thing which keeps getting into my nerves specially when i meet people who are so glib and so articulate that they actually overwhelm you with their command on language. Once I came out of prithvi theatre after watching an esoteric play with Sanskrit nishtha hindi, and saw all the junta was ga-ga over it. I knew that most of them won’t be able to translate saintalis into 47, didnt know how to express my disgust. And it has happened with me whenever I saw an absurdist Samuel becket or a harold pinter play at NCPA
But sir, there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we our brought up, “queen’s” language and the “English way” impresses us too easily. No, I dont dispense it but I just question, Why should shakespeare be taught to 15 year old kids? he wrote 400 years back in a language which is so differnt from the english we know and in a culture which is alien to us. Can the translated plays of Girish Karnad and Badal sircar be not the first steps on the staircase which might later lead to shakespeare. I dont remember if ever I laughed while reading Merchant of Venice in class 8th, I cudnt even figure out where would the audience laugh when it is played, though it was supposed to be a comedy! I failed to understand his humor at that age. But still Complete works of Shakespeare is more easily available then Badi Buaji by Badal sircar. That shakespear play I guess, is the beginning of bullshit for a growing up individual.
And yes so true, every body dies without fail. Just reminds me of what “Indrajeet” said.. “To seek a break in the unchanging rythm of death is perhaps the most foolish and futile attempt of man in this world”
I had my own “Renu Saluja” but unfortunately she was too strong and too much of a non-bullshiter that I didnt get 12 years of learning experience wih her. Though for “The RENU SALUJA’S” there is something writen by GB SHAW in MAN AND SUPERMAN..”The most treacherous and remorseless of all struggles is that between the artist man and the mother woman”
I hope that you continue to be a non-bullhitter!!
thats been my personal observation as well mr mishra , though i am still young ..haha ..(no i m not hinting at u having done ur time)
its the herd mentality ….more than anything else….
Hi Sudhir
Thanks..It was a pleasure reading this…
hmm..right
right dose of what is needed
thank u
Sudhir ji with all due respect I think that a person whose main objective is to simply observe, and not necessarily be influenced by, disparate perspectives, be it in film or life, can do so and perhaps even gain from it as long as they adapt the what they observe to their own sensibilities.
The key is your own genuineness. I agree too many people out there make an extra-effort to watch films or read books that may not naturally appeal to them, just because they’re insecure enough to believe they need that influence to somehow reach a certain “level”. In the process they lose their own unique, individual perspective.
Only a real person can give a real point of view, devoid of superficialities.
Great read sir, quite thought provoking.
… this post affected me … thank you
Sir (I won’t ji you),
I think this is the best post I have ever seen/read from anybody on the filmmaking process…period…Not saying this to win favors from you…loved Hazaron…absolutely indifferent about Calcullta Mail…but I have the right to air my absolute pleasure in reading this post and have to express that….and I agree with 99.98% of what you say. I will still use my prerogative of liking/disliking your future films, but this post I will always treasure
Vivek “humbled, never thought a film person would do that to me, nope not even Ray, now I am by your post” Kumar
What a fantastic post…i absolutely loved reading it
wow…
^:)^
Sudhir Sir,
A wonderous post.
Thank you for being a part of PFC.
A budding / struggling / wannabe
film maker like me can’t ask for more.
Keep writing Sir.
It’s a pleazure reading.
The most honest piece of work i have seen in a long time…i completely believe in work only for the love you have for the work everything else in only a distraction…^:)^^:)^^:)
Blown!
Sudhirji,thnx again. Now,thats what u call point of view. stories, its all about stories. Loved it.
N thank god,somebody said that…its not all about Tarkovsky,fellini,kieslowski,von trier, kurosawa n all that. it’s all about “reaction” to life. N i guess,HKA is one such beautiful reaction.we need films that react to our set-up/our scene,n not to some love actually or bike-babe-popcorn tamasha.
How many times i hav been given that strange look when i have said i dont understand why pather panchali is such a great film. its poetic,its beuatiful n have read every possible kind of stuff on that film. believe it was marketed as well.lot many things worked in its favour.But i love mahanagar,apur sansar, pratidwandi much much more.
Also i hate the word “entertainment”. Its wrong to put films = entertainment. They r supposed to “engage” u. N entertainment is part of that”engage”ment. Any kind of story can engage u.Those big bosses…those gaints r killing it everyday in the name of entertainment(pyaar-mohabaat-comedy-bhagambhaag). Is there a way to put a full stop somehere to all this shit called “entertainment”. If not fullstop, a comma will also do for sometime.
Smriti, u rock girl!!! i was thinking today only of writing to u about sudhirji’s nect post. N i c it here.
The best thing about Sudhir’s ( i bet he hates the use of ji as much as I do) posts are his honesty. Something that comes with years of self introspection & finally finding oneself & being at peace with what one found. Its a state hard to arrive.
To digress from the topic – I saw u on the trailer of TRAFFIC. U look really evil. GK was talking about it a lot. What is ur opinion on Madhur Bhandarkar?
I think he is a smart filmmaker, but shallow. I don’t see anything deep in his work. I dunno why i’m asking u this question. Its unfair to ask u such questions in a public forum…
nevermind.
Great reference material to fall back on
I loved it.
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Thanks for the write up (I love the satire in it).
Sudhir Sir…ur thoughts are enlightening.I’m an editor…and ur post really gave an insight to know myself as a future film maker.
Humbling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The act of film making is simultaneously an act of arrogance and an act of humility.”
^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^
“As long as you give us an experience that is yours. That is the arrogance of the film maker”
Sir you’ve managed to say what has always been in the minds of the film makers … Fantastic read.
Hi again,
Just read it for the second time… mind blowing… gheun taakli.
Today’s Mid-Day has carried a news item about Sudhir Mishra’s blog at PFC! check it out at mid-day.com!
After reading this post there is no way I can
address u but ‘Sir’. Your article ‘feels’ like life itself. What a post!! “they see a film as an alternate reality” great words. Completely
bowled over by the ‘Soul’ of Sudhir Mishra
awesome read Sir….and brilliantly honest!
I had a complete dose of Ray, Mrinal Sen in my mid teens. And I have my parents to thank for it. That is why, when I start seeing a movie in that genre, I cannot stop…but in a DVD store, I donot want to rent it out…because they linger in your mind..they are so full on.
I love Ray (movies and books) and I have introduced Ray already to my five year old (kids movies)…she loves it as much as Sharukh and Nik (Saif Screen name in Salaam Namaste):)
But among so many good movies I have seen, “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron” is still one of my favourites. Two scenes I cannot forget Staish Shah in the Coffin, and the Ramlila Scene:d
Congratulations!
If time permits… i just thought i will remind you that its high time you put a new post… ha ha ha. Just kidding… but missing your new post…
What a great post for an aspiring filmmaker to read. Thank you very much.
[...] Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra has tons of advice for aspiring artists and filmmakers in a free flowing conversation-style piece… And I think young people today see too many films. I think it
Ahh..lots of food for thought. And lots to say.
My cup of rants spilleth over. So I pushed it to this post.
http://peace-chill-om.blogspot.com/2007/03/response-to-sudhir-mishra.html
Dear Sudhir,
It is a very well written post. I quite agree with many things you have written. For instance, it might sound sexy to drop the name of Jean-Luc-Godard, but unfortunately I just couldn’t sit through Masculin f
Its been long since i read something so blunt, so honest, & so beautiful. Sudhirji thanx a lot for clearing my vision & directing my perspective in a right direction.
As a child i always listened to stories from my dadi every night. those stories always carried a moral of life which i still remember. My dadi is no more. Today while i was reading ur post i felt like my dadi is telling me a story & teaching me about life.
thanx a lot.
WOW !!!
U cann’t take that shot………… ^:)^^:)^^:)^
wow i loved it especially the punch line
“Know yourself and know the world”
You should go for a shorter haircut, you look like a 70s souvenir!
Love your films, esp the soundtrack and the tight screenplay
I always like to hear it like this. Blunt or sharp without the sheath.
I can get on with my life now.
Sudhir ji
Just wanted to say thanks. I confess…I have never seen your movies and only recently I heard ur name thru PFC but never cared much to read ur blog….but I don’t know why , today I was just going thru ur post and it really affected me …
Ur post resonates with ur blog title “trying my best not to bullshit”….
Hi Sudhir,
I didn’t realise you were are the Sudhir Mishra who studied in Sagar. I used to study with your brother Sudhanshu. I live in London now ( after Muscat,Dubai, Kiev and for a large period Istanbul).
How is Sudhanshu? Please ignore this if I am mistaken.
Best,
Rahul
hi Sudhir!!!
I would jus like to say tht great blog… many ppl say…. i’m very passionate bout movies bcoz i jus get into da story whn i get into da theatre.I jus wanna say tht HAZAROO… is my most liked movies of all times… i mean u connect wid geeta n siddarth n vikram soo mch… i jus hope tht is movie wid soha ali is better than ur last 1…. i myself.. study in du and plan to become a film maker… i will be taking da entrance for FTII… as a director.. i wanna tell stories.. and wanna assist u one day.. n later show u my work… ur a good guy boss
ur greatest fan
VADI
He he
Fantastic!!!
Today was my first browse through PFC… read couple of posts. But this piece by Sudhir is what compelled me to post a comment. Briiliant! Great clarity and vision. Thanks so much, truly inspiring.^:)^
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still the article was nice, you theorize a lot of things and i quite agree with few.
but one thing is for sure now, people who are making movies, most of them don’t know anything about it, and those who knows are sidelined or are in dark, that’s why Indian Cinema is far behind other Cinemas, because crativity is no where to find, and mostly not given a chance, and that’s a brutal truth that not many idiots identify with and keeps on writing in print media that we have made a mark internationally. DREAMING…
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“the comments” sounds like there are more ass lickers on this site rather than some real people with passion for cinema.
Read Arushi’s comment …… the clarity of it all amazed me….It was like a photocopy of the thoughts in my mind…why cant I find people like these in real life…
Avijit Pathak bhai, meine to apne personal experience se likha tha, if its a photocopy of what u were thinking… well, its funny.
Anyhow, this space is meant for comments on Sudhir ji’s post, so let me stop.
Hi Sudhir,
Great to hear your thoughts…I have never really seen any of your films except for is raat ki subah nahin…I don’t remember a great deal of it now…will surely catch on to your next… khoya khoya chand… wishing you loads of luck and wishes.
Surender
The problem about talking about cinema, art, creativity, is that it is very personal to each. you said very right mr. mishra.
Thanks a lot sudhir sir…This piece of yours has given a lot of insights about the ways one need to analyze their belives and surroundings.I dare to promise right away that i will one day make films and tell stories about places and person whom i know best and it will be in my style.