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GULAAL
It was 2001 and censor had refused certification for Paanch. I was angry and pissed off and I wanted to say a lot. On november 9th 2000 there was a new state of Uttaranchal and six days later on november 15th Jharkhand was formed. The 27th and 28th state. I was upset about everything, as to why these new states were being formed to why can’t i release my film to why do people fall in love to what is the point of anything. At that time my actor of Paanch, Pankaj Saraswat(now the creator of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge) introduced me to a part time model. His name was Raja Chaudhary. I never took him seriously. He had written a story on college politics, which was a nice story but nothing more and I told him so. I told him this story needs a milieu, where it is set and why is it happening. He did not know what to say. I asked him where is he from, and he said Jaipur. I said take me there. I was depressed, i needed to go away. We, him, me and Rahul mahariya, the co-writer of the story. d the in jaipur I met a lot of royalty, and heard there stories. They all had there own version of history but at the same time they had a grouse with the government. The grouse was common, based on history. That gave me a milieu for Raja’s story. I started writing. I researched, Aparna Malhotra, my researcher and assistant in Black Friday helped me. I read history from Sharda Dwivedi to Romila Thapar and others and found about how the republic of India was founded and the roles of the Rajputs in it. I read the Patiala report. A lot came to the surface for me and i rewrote and rewrote and Gulaal was born.
It was and is my most angry film. It was influenced a lot by the songs from Pyaasa. That is the music that i use to hear at that time. Particularly “yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai”. At the time I was writing the film, I had a visitor, Piyush Mishra. He was sitting in my office when i was writing the film. A music director came to meet me and started to p[lay his Nadeem Shravan kind of songs. I wanted to get rid of him, but Piyush borrowed his harmonium and started to play it and started to sing the songs he had written and composed for his various plays. Songs from “Suno Re Kissa” and “Jab Shahar Hamara Sota Hai” and various others. Those songs were provocative, inspiring and I realised that is the kind of music the film needs. I convinced him to stay back in Bombay, we bought him a harmonium and I asked him to do the music of Gulaal. The film changed again. This was before Black Friday, before he wrote “Bandey”.
Michael Arrakal, who use to work for USL was trying to produce the film. He couldn’t because Paanch had not released and i was labeled untouchable. We did a small schedule and after that the film was shelved. I got to do Black Friday after that. Jhamu Sughand was a partner in Black Friday. after the court stopped the release of that film I sank into further depression. At that time Jhamu read the script of Gulaal and based on the confidence he had on BF he said he wants to do Gulaal. We started preproduction, we started shooting and 20 days into shooting, new problems cropped up for Jhamu Sugandh. Gulaal was stopped midway along with Johnny Gaddar and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. the two other films of Jhamu. The former was picked up by Ad labs and the Latter by Aamir Khan. Nobody picked up Gulaal because it had nobody that was saleable. I made No Smoking, Return Of Hanuman and Dev.D. Now finally it was Zee Motion Pictures that bought the project and decided to complete and release it. Now finally we have finished shooting and we are hopeful. Now finally my dream project has completed shooting. It has taken seven years since i wrote it to find takers for it, and hopefully we will put it out in the theatres too with the same cast barring one, and the same way it was intended to. And I am ecstatic about it.
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Anurag,
They always say that courage could fight with any system and you are prime example for that.. You been a role model for many.. You remind me of RGV of 90s when he used to work on streets and work on theatre actors.. hopefully RGV ego doesn’t bite you.. I am one of your great fan.. Haven’t seen Paanch.. Loved Black Friday and recent Aamir.. Can’t wait to see your next ones..
Good luck to your films.. Keep working.. You are blessing to indian cinema..
Nik
And.. thanks for sharing background story of Gulal.. I understand the pain you went through and anger on the system.. hopefully anger on the system makes this movie darkest of all.. Is it dark and grim?
Nik
Best wishes to you Anurag. Good to know your dreams are coming alive…
All the best A.k!God knows we need some good movies.
Anurag, I am still waiting to see Paanch. woh subah kabhi toh aaegi.
Congratulations! A couple of questions -
With such a long gap, how are you ensuring the people and backgrounds etc. all match?
Why is Gulaal saleable now? b/c you’ve had successes since then?
SirG,
My concern will be as an Aspiring producer will be how to reach to the audiences. How to bring audiences to the theatre. Not many make a choice to view a film of such genre. I am sure Zee motion Pictures have the machinery to promote it.
The promotion of a seven year struggle can’t be common to a LOVE STORY. A pre release campaign of about 2 months or more should be run as a contest. A programme like Lead India need to be designed.
A real life mock casting of the characters who have gone through such emotions and situations be called upon and presented as a real life story of today. These real life people should be directly identified with the characters in the movie. A news channel slot where people can call and identify themselves with the outline of the characters. These people can later come to the studio and narrate their story.
A book in print or ebook about the story be published to create awareness.
A passionate movie needs an equated effort to promote it.
Vinod Agarwal - (Aspiring Assistant Producer First Batch Whistling woods)
Best of lucks. Gawd bless.
I am waiting for it.
Best wishes…waiting for it to be spellbound again….
Anurag the last sentence, ‘the same way it was intended to’ bought a smile to my face. All the Very best with the release Anurag.
good luck with the film..
u know wat…i wrote a post today,without giving much thought to each word ..n i won’t go through it…i was in a foul mood…
take care
hopefully now that gulaal is shot, we will get more posts from you……please dont leave blogging all together
btw i saw a news in zoom that you are going to direct some film called “big bazar” what is that about?
Your fighting spirit, your stubbornness to get these films made and not give up on them, is worth every once of respect you’re getting today. Congrats on the completion of another film that’s dear to you. Keep making the films you want to make and in the process keep inspiring all of us who need to keep fighting ourselves to stay motivated and persevere to make our own cinematic dreams come true.
All the best for Gulal and Dev D. Looking forward to both films. And I mean it 200% when I say I hope they both do well. .. we need such heartfelt efforts to get their due and the end of the day too..
hi anuarg,
did your read RGV’s latest post on his blog? is there any ’satya’ to it? what is your gut feeling about his forthcoming release ‘contract’? do you see him recreating the ’satya’ & ‘company’ magic?
“KOI AADMI BURA NAHI HOTA,USKA WAQT BURA HOTA HAI”,but our industry thinks the other way round that is “agar iska waqt accha hai toh to woh aadmi bhi accha hai” which is totally WRONG. Make Art Make Art AK, Long live Art,Long live Cinema !!!
@PFC,
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hmmm…we are in mid of 2008, and not a single enjoyable movie till now. Looking forward to Contract and of course The Dark Knight. When is Gulal expected to release?
Anurag, are you going to show a divided India in Gulal? It seems so from your post. Interesting..
I like the way the browser title bar reads “Gulaal | Passion for Cinema” … Best wishes for Gulaal, Anurag!
Did I read… ‘the most angry film’… whoooh! Takes me to a new high… I wish you kill everybody in the end… every fucking sentient being!
Apologies (ahem!) … best wishes!
ricky….
so u dont believe RGV and what he writes on his blog and so u wanna confirm it from AK……strange..
thank god anurag you are back and started writing here.
few days ago i came here in mumbai leaving behind everything to struggle…. i feel very low when i dont see any known face in the passing day…
but reading you is like meeting you… its inspiring….
“…we’re very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox..”.
Coen brothers, oscar speech 2008.
Same to you Anurag. Its your corner. And you are the king. Congratulations.
ricky rgv is correct
Dear Anurag,
Impressed and inspired by your experience in making the movies you make. Congratulations on completing Gulaal. I am now eagerly waiting to see it now that you have given some information about it.
Wishing you the best!!
Sarang-
Atlast..:)
congratulations..mr anurag kashyap….even if u dont read this comment..i’ll still post it coz im really glad reading this news abt gulal…u know abt four yrs back..(when i ws 17-18) i had come to know abt paanch..and it being banned..and i had heard ur name for the first time…and i got so curious that i searched abt u,,and man i discovered later that you’ve written “KAUN” and the dialogs of “Shool”……i was so damn angry and frustated with the sensor board abt banning the directorial debut of a man who’s written two of my most fav movies….i have no words to describe you how much i had always wanted to watch “paanch” ever since…and esply after watching the TV promo..with the song “kya din kya raat…”…and then when i watched “No smoking”…i knew i had loved the movie..and waited for the last scene where K would “succumb”!!!..coz that was so crucial..to be exactly contradicting!!!…and i knew it then n there..we’ve got to watch more of anurag kashyap……..im really glad for you and for evryone who would be watching gulal….thanks….
“the same cast barring one” - who is it? :p
Anurag,
Is it possible to release Paanch on Google video or on any online medium? Because I see it as becoming an instant cult hit, and that in turn can inspire the censor board to pass it. It might even work if you release it underground and people are able to watch it.
anurag,
thanks for reply..will you be watching “contract’..remember reading an interview of yours where you had said that RGV will do a good job of this movie which was then titled ‘dheye’..
All the best Anurag. Waiting for that one big hit from your baton.
Btw, dunno if u’v seen Abbas’s debut film. Will be interesting to hear from you on that
7 years? I guess your saade satti!
Thank you for sharing with us this background Anurag. I don’t relate to all that you have undergone in the manner of experiencing them but reading this write-up gave me gooseflesh.
Keep making the films you want to make Anurag. There will always be an audience for them. Always.
All the best.
Hey thats great news Man. Good luck for GULAL. Any Chance of US catching PAANCH in theaters or at least at a private screening ?I am a big lover of the music of the film and those tracks still haunt me . Please do let me know if could at least get a viewing of it in mumbai
@Anurag wrt Paanch - F**k the censor boards man - be innovative - release the project though nepal / cyaman islands / bahamas or something - use the internet to distribute streaming / download - charge us money $1, $2, $3…$10 anything. At this point of time, you have generated enough curiosity, hype and respect - that there is a niche audience eagerly waiting for it (myself included). Do something different - let it be the first “open-source film”. If this cannot be done due to legal reasons - then find a loophole man.
God bless your producer !!! ;)
Sirji ek sawal - naam Gulaal hee kyon??
And if I can read your mind (being an ardent lover of your work)- did you get Seema Rahmani as replacement after wtaching her brilliant performance in Loins of Punjab Presents?? teer nishaane pe laga ki nahin zarur batayen
Naren, Seema was doing the film earlier, now is replaced by Mahi Gill.
first of all congratulations….,
nw waiting for its release
n do write a post about DEV D, want to hear more about it…,
n also plz become active again on myspace…,
Anurag, I don’t know if you’ve already read my mention of this elsewhere, but I was one of the lucky ones who saw Paanch in Siri Fort Auditorium when you, KK and Tejaswini were there. I really loved the dialogues, the sets, the atmosphere, and without doubt the performances, but I wasn’t too sure about the final twists.
This post of yours has been very inspiring. I’m really happy that things are coming together for someone like you who dares to make the movies that you’ve made. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again - Black Friday is among my favourite films ever, I enjoyed No Smoking (although I don’t pretend to have understood it fully) and I nearly choked with laughter while watching Hanuman Returns. Hope to meet you someday soon.
Hi anurag
all the best.
i hope gulaal had more colour and joy than the stark blak and white emotional imagery of No smoking and Aamir.
if you look around the world, you will notice that there is a lot of joy and colour. Its your state of mind that has not allowed you to tap into it
Am reposting minus the typos
Hi Anurag,
This is in context to your post -Aamir is not Cavite. Since my comment was not getting posted there I am doing it here
Okay-we beleive you-Aamir is not a copy of Cavite.
Whatever.
we also accept that your lack of knowlegde and ignorance allowed Raj Kumar Gupta to pass of his script to you as an original (Cavite DVD was released in early 2005 btw)
which you in turn passed on to UTV.
Now please beleive me, for what i am saying is true also. Its only your ignorance that makes me doubt you
The world is NOT ROUND
IT IS SQUARE-I have proof and have conducted 5 years research on it.
I also have a letter from Chistopher Columbus dated 1492 where he admits that my discovery that the world is sqaure is correct
and that he was wrong and he had no proof that the world was round anyway but at that point of time he was desperate for a breakthrough in his career.
SO he lied and the world eager for a breaktrough discovery beleived him.
Just like you guys supposedly got a letter from the makers of Cavite wishing you good luck on ur coincidentally identical script.
Good luck
But please remember
BULLSHIT kee bhi koi hadd hoti hai
All the best for Gulal.Hope it turns out to be a good movie like BF.I am not gonna watch it if it is again a NS, which was made by u, for u.
Hey Anurag !! Upset about formation of Jharkhand and Uttaranchal?? I guess they have been the best thinh to have hapened to Bihar and UP. Ditto with Chhatisgarh.. Eagerly waiting for Paanch though. Oh and one honest admission. Though I hated No Smoking the first time I saw it, it just grows on you after the repeated viewing. Just like that classic rock track..
Thanks for correcting me Anurag.
While watching LOPP, thought she performing for you must be divine. anyway yeh nahin to koi aur film sahi.. par aapke dierection mein unka performance dekhne ki badi ichcha hai…
Is the whole movies based in Rajasthan?? if yes, am curious to see your treatment of the place. I hope ki woh run of the mill treatment nahin hai.. gaaon ki auraten, sar pe ghadaa, ret ke tilon pe dhalte suraj ke saamne se untho ki naal thaame jaate hue kisaan…
Most of he films show this kind of rajasthan.. except a few like MANORAMA SFU.
The most angry film .. thts should be the tag line for GULAAL.. release it sooooooooooon.
@Anurag: if you dont mind , may i ask for your personal email ID ?
Ramblings
Looking for Paanch since long… i ave seen black fri n No Smokin, though both being completely differnt i guess no smokin was a much more polished well made movie… n even u know tht it wasnt completely trashed… there is a counter view which exists.. other than the elitist views comin out of ftii etc who claim to understand and becme the self proclaimed flagbearers of the movie.. Bt i guess you mst ave heard both sides very well by now.
I guess paanch is wht i am really lookin forward too… care to spare a dvd of paanch tht is if u ave one…
As usual ….your courage never ceases to amaze me.
Hope and pray that u continue to make YOUR films YOUR way.
Great,
lets hope it relseases as soon as possible.
akki
Sirjee, Aapke write up mai kahi ye jhalak raha hai ki you are not so confident about the film now..
Bhaiya ye bhi bata do who was saleable in Johnny Gaddar at that time for adlabs to pick the film?
Anurag: apologies for cross-posting a question from Gajendra Shrotriya’s post: In the short article/interview attached to that post, you talk about a film called “Disaster” that you directed. I’d love to know more about this film. I don’t think I’ve read about this elsewhere before.
Hi Anurag
I saw Sicko a few days back by Michael Moore and ever since i’ve seen that movie, i have been thinking about it and am trying to imagine, what effect would such a documentary have on the people in the country. Its amazing how real life stories, if nicely shown, can beat any blockbuster writing or screenplay.
And then i thought, India needs such documentaries; India needs filmmakers who can awaken the people. RDB was fine but at the end of the day, it was a story and people do not take much from a story. I suppose, if you take it upon yourself to do such a documentary, coz. you’re the only director today who tries different things with a clean conscience.
No smoking was not very watchable but the impact of the message was definite. I’m sure a lot of people after watching it would’ve thought twice before lighting up another cigarrette.
But now, i guess, it is time to make a documentary like Michael Moore. Distort a few facts like him, if you wish, but at least get the bigger message across with great impact using real people and real life instances rather than actors and a story.
There are such a number of issues facing India like
- the rut politics is in: How a leader elected by the public, forgets about them and goes on to exploit his position for only his financial gains;
How members of the parliament loose countless productive hours in staging walkouts, protesting a comment made by some other party member, discussing about petty stuff and forgetting about the real problems to be solved;
- the rut police department is in: An average Indian is scared from the police than thinking of them as security;
- and loads of other pertinent issues which need tackling.
I know you’re a busy man but please please see SICKO once and you’ll know what I mean. I BEG OF YOU - I GUESS YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DO THIS TODAY. AND MORE THAN ANYTHING, OUR COUNTRY NEEDS IT.
all the best with everything, release it soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon…
Ship it, Will wait for Gulaal.
Loved the return of Hanuman - notch above other attempts of folks who made ganesha etc(no offence). The material, story was as good if not better than the h movies. The script was pretty nicely stripped off unwanted elements and the spoofs were awesome.
Paanch - we talked about it, thought about it but it never shipped. May be just like software you have the option of releasing patches to the original movies :), release it backwards as small 1 hr editions to specialized tv/net?
Saw 16 blocks - cuts(is that the right technical term?), color/light arrangements, sounds were done neatly in the movie and kept a very tight grip. Supposedly it was big hit on the dvd rental too.
What’s up? what follows is a rant -
If Abbas can do frothy JTJN - what about lighter movie on heavy subject from you and when.
Real marketable idea
A true growing up movie(RDB/Lakshya were not the one), most of the others are dumb caricatures of people(boys which comes closest by shankar was more of commercial effort and was panned by audience ).
As somebody else said - please show rajasthan, heat, the sand in different way - just as subtly done in Manorama SFU. (that was one of the many fav movies) in gulaal, too many expectations ?
Pramodbhai, 23: No matter how much expectations I may have from you, no matter how scared I may get that you may fail one day to live up to them, no matter how many people may praise you and make you into something that you yourself are against, no matter what…you surpass my expectations effortlessly.
Of all the 11 stories, it got the max applause…people were hooting…laughing out loud…you name it.
Which made my friend say what he says all the time, “Anurag Kashyap jab chahe tab ek BLOCKBUSTER bana sakta hai!”
But guess thats not what drives you and it never should.
Cheers!!!
“WHY SO SERIOUS?”
The Joker
Yaar….I am the biggest fan u can get …..seriously….
and I am a very reasonable person and I completely agree with what you try to show in your movies. Just keep the good work and remember….its the world which is timid and lacks guts to accept the truth about the world….:)
all the best. sir
Hi Anurag,
Stumbled upon this blog…you seem excited, so am I…. I’ll wait the release.
All the best man!
watched “pramod bhai …23″ :) :) :) :):)
hello sir,
i watched aamir.its well photographed according to the subject and also very well excuted.best of luck to ram kumar gupta.songs are well composed by amit trivadi . at least some one has guts to change the main stream cinma. wating for your next release.
Hello A.K,
Black Friday was one movie which make feel like to get out of the corporate world and get into concepts which are associated to reality.Black Friday apart from Hazaron Qwaishein Aisi are two movies which are real hard-hitters and influenced a lot movie makers who intend to make real genre films.Thanks a lot Sir, for making me to sit in the theatre with an intensified background watching Black Friday and not to forget,’Bandeh’ song at the end of the movie really makes me high and attaches me to the reality whenever I listen the song.Satya was awesome piece of work of yours.K’s addiction to smoking was the bottomline in No Smoking as I felt was your’s intention to show to people the addiction to smoke.So after a long time, reading the blogs on PFC on Gulaal,eagerly waiting to get it released. Thanks a lot Sir for making my dreams to still be alive by the kinda movies your making.defintely will catch you Sir with the same intensified concept.All the Best for the new releases Sir.Dev D and Gulaal.
way to go AK…..eagerly waiting for Gulaal… I’ll catch it first day first show
Anurag Sir,
I m eagerly waiting for both for ur forthcoming movies…specially Gulaal..as Kay Kay is one of my fav’s…In Black Friday…u got the best out of him….and i heard that in Gulaal also..Kay Kay’s work is superb….waiting for Dev.d also…best wishes…
Hi Anurag,
I recently watched mumbai cutting(in cinefan festival)..and I loved your story(and also kundan’s part)…I really liked the text and crispy dialogues…
I would like to know..how did this idea come to your mind?
Please let us know the “background story” of CHAND!!!
-KM-
@Anurag
Look back in anger(1956)…A play by John Osborne…I hope that you have pent up yours in ‘Gulaal’.It is quite Dostoevskian way to create.In fact your post can be a sensible and serious point of departure for another angry film.Censorship,democracy,hegemony,nonsenses of state-power holders and an individual with his sense of right,wrong,society,duty,ideologies,frustration,anger,systemetc etc can clash to form a solid core.It can be a non-narrative and set in the background of big studio(mechanical,often disturbningly harmonic and bloodless like a joker’s wry smile to earn bread and butter and then to curse all the viewers of circus in solitude with a bottle of cheap rum, may be country liquer….Well,congrats and a wait for the release…
Hi Anurag
good luck… im eagerly waiting 4 it…
now u r playing safe?
gr8! good luck!!
well I hope you have learned some lesson from all these years that as a filmmaker your first responsibility is towards your producer. He is putting money and trust in you and wants neither of it cheated. And your second responsibility is towards the audience who you have somehow convinced to spend money and time and come see your film. You can’t cheat them either.
Yes all your wanting to do your kind of cinema is good if only you want to appreciate your own work, like you did with No Smoking, and you let your producer down there as well. Let me know of a single person who came out of the theater knowing exactly what happened in that film. It would have taken just a simple effort from you to make the story more decipherable and much more worthwhile. But you chose not to, and who lost in the bargain? Everyone, including you.
Films need to make money for more films to be made.
As a filmmaker you need to find a balance between what you want to do and what audience will appreciate. It’s not a difficult thing to do, as long as you have your objectivity in place and creative stubbornness out the window.
Amir R Jaffar
amirjaffar@yahoo.com
Well guess what, Mr. Jaffar. I walked out of the theater knowing exactly what happened in the film.
@AMIR R JAFFAR
I dont know if you know calculus and simple arithmatic both.If you then you are welcome to the philosophy of mathematics.But if you do not know both please be careful.You can get a slip (and may be slip-disk too)to understand calculus without guidance and training.
I do not know Mr.Kashyap personaly and I even have not have time to see his No-Smoking.But if it is your points that had struck me hard.What do you mean?If you viewers are only worth licking lollypop at a park bench and at the age of 4 yrs always, people will not make a mature film!Is this your point?
And while talking about producers do you think that they are only here to make money and suck honey (when most of other people working in film are not getting worth of their salts) and they will never lose a single paise?Sorry friend,if producers are in this game (as far as so-called commercials are concerned) one may once or more time make astronomical profit and let others doom with less pay and no share of profits, but one day table may turn and it’s producer’s turn to swallow loss.No cursing is acceptable.
I think you have a poor knowledge of cinema business too.Some of the greatest hits were been rejected at the first place by some simply worthless producers in all over the world, on account of creative stubbornness of the maker (remember troubles with CITIZEN KEN?), and finally they had to curse their stupidity when that film had hit the box-office.That also proves that there are a few producers who know film business and a bit creative like directors too.They do not complain for a loss.No one in sanity can tell what exactly audience/viewers like.It is en-mass and individual too that has a role as audience/viewers.Do you know that?Do you or any other have a formula (like in scientific theories) to calculate what these great faceless theatre hall visitors want?None you have.Yet you are posing as allmighty for nothing!
If you are a maker (which I doubt gravely) or even a cheated( in your words) producer please try to understand that film is not a promotion of housings or roads or bridges, that one after another has to be made religiously.A thousand years of lull is better than a thousand so-called stupid films in industrial process.
And finally maker, producer and all others have to have only one priority in their persuit of film and that is the film itself.Producers, directors even viewers are at the bottom of that list. One to hundred is occupied by only cinema and cinema only.
P.S—I AM A PRODUCER MYSELF AND PRODUCING MY OWN FILM. THANK YOU.
Dear Suddha,
Thanks for sparing me the trouble of reading your post in it’s entirety by highlighting CITIZEN KEN in CAPS which caught my attention immediately. Irony of ironies that is - a person points out alleged ignorance of others when he himself does not know that there has never been a film in the history of cinema with the title Citizen Ken (as far as I know). And I doubt you have ever seen the film in question either or you’d not have made the error you did, which btw I doubt you are aware of even as you read this.
I am scared for you turning a producer but I wish you all the best none the less. Please learn and understand the craft before you jump into it. Just a friendly advice.
regards
Tushar,
Congratulations, you deserve the only award that can be attributed to that film.
@Jaffar
Yes you are right.That is CITIZEN KANE (1941).A mistake in spelling had done it and definitely it is a sin.But as you are troubled to read an entire post I think you are a busy bee and you do not waste your time to listen to others(how wonderfully intelligent!).I remember a line now–
”What trade art thou?” (Julius caesar)
If you are in the film trade itself and you are so pompous in your attitude then you maust have some mastary in it.Any way, may I know in what department exactly?In counting viewers at the gateway? Otherwise you could have understood without much difficulty that this not anything like promoting some mindless and artless scrappers.
Well Mr.Pompei, please learn one thing atleast, that if you are out there to count non-sensitive mistakes then do not write ‘BTW’ within a sentence.Otherwise someone much wiser than you can conclude that you do not know english( inspite of writing in it in your post).
And thanks for your advice sir. I truely am learning cinema each and every day and will do till I die.But unlike you I do not miss aesthetics, by learning crafts only.
Hope to see you in next Oscar (through television,as I am not as great as you sir).
Suddha sir,
You are right, I do not know English. I do not have any ‘mastary’ over the language as you ‘muast’ be having.
And btw (since you know what it stands for) learning a craft is actually appreciating its aesthetics; just one of the things I learned at film school.
Regards.
Anurag your ‘black friday’ was a bold attempt, that’s how a docu movie should be made. and u did a wonderful job with ‘no smoking’ it is india’s answer to Kieslowski’s movies.
keep up the good work, looking fw to Gulal. tell me how can i obtain a copy of Paanch, i guess it was banned in india but was it released anywhere in the world? where wd it be available?
best regards…
Eagerly waiting for Gulal (and Dev.D), Anurag. I still smile with pleasure at the mention of Pramodbhai 23.
And thought I’d also pass on a link that I found inspiring, and may be something other filmmakers and film lovers would like to read as well …
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/08/diy-filmmaker-w.html
Dear Suddha:
You have made your exchange with Amir, needlessly personal. He has a view and he has expressed it. Play the ball not the person. In any case, I find your argument of “cinema solely for cinema’s sake” too idealistic and impractical. If that is the case then why get all gloomy and sulk when viewers/ reviews don’t take to it?
I seriously hope Gulaal lives up to the hype and is not just another all intellectual hype pre-release and myriad interpretations later.
Ram thanks for your support
And Manish, very inspiring report indeed. That kind of stuff is always welcome. It’s so exciting to think it could be you.
yeah …whats with all this senseless fighting Mr Suddha. I dont think Mr Amir R Jafar could have expressed his point more clearly as he did…it makes perfect sense. well written sir..
totally agree with you. The first responsibility is always to the producer and then to the paying audience and shouldering both these responsibilities does not in anyway come in the way of great filmmaking…especially for the capable and talented.
and those who snub the financial aspects of filmmaking.
and if you are going to be making comments like these….
Sorry friend,if producers are in this game (as far as so-called commercials are concerned) one may once or more time make astronomical profit and let others doom with less pay and no share of profits, but one day table may turn and it’s producer’s turn to swallow loss.No cursing is acceptable.
pls think twice about producing because it shows how irrational your thoughts about money are how less you respect it
kunal,
You’ve sucked the gist out of my post with “shouldering both these responsibilities does not in anyway come in the way of great film making…especially for the capable and talented”
Exactly the point I was making. Thanks for making it sound better.
I guess I am pretty late in asking this but when will i get to see Paanch? I mean a movie that has been banned from indian viewing is a Two Thumbs Up by default.
hello Anurag,
this is Abijith from bangalore.
i really want to assist you plz plz plz give me one chance
Abijith14@gmail.com
this is my id
plz plz plz give me a chance
Dear Anurag Kashyap ji,
Hi, I am Nimit Kathuria. Seeing that many people are using (abusing?) this space to get in touch with you, I thought maybe I will do the same. I hope you don’t mind.
I am one of those (less objective) people who judge a book by its covers, a movie by its trailers and make up their minds entirely based on other people’s opinions, and so I have decided that you are a genius (I haven’t seen any of your films… yet, you see)(actually, well, I did… “Black Friday” on a pirated VCD but that’s a different story).
Anyway, coming to the point… being a genius that you are can you please help me (it’s urgent)? I am in my second year at the CBS, Delhi and a part of the Dramatics Society, and we are having a hard time choosing any script for our annual production this year. Last year, we did “Accidental Death of an Anarchist”, by Dario Fo but ended up cutting it so short (45 minute time limit), that it lost its essence, besides being in English (which many people were enthu to do, but sucked at improvs, so it kind of ruined it). Therefore, this time we wanted to do something which is shorter (originally) and in Hindi (though that is not a prerequisite), besides preferably having at least 8-9 characters (again, that is not a prerequisite). Can you please please please (I somehow believe that profusion proves desperation) help us out? ASAP.
Please suggest a powerful script (any genre) that we can adapt.
Thanks,
Nimit Kathuria
CBS is a college btw, if you are wondering… being a Mumbaikar and all.
Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, may i add.
people r fighting again…….gets make a script
Hey anurag all the best,
really loved ‘no smoking’ and now you say you have something better than that! Can’t wait.
But what i have been hearing quite a lot about is paanch. I remember seeing the promos before it got released some eons ago. I know it’s piracy but you could muster up and cult following by ‘leaking’ it out in the net and letting it reach the people you intended.
best of luck sir…go ahead…
loved black friday but havent been able to see no smoking yet…keep rocking sir