Looking for excuses for SHAKALAKA FUCK FUCK
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Nowhere to hide..I can’t even say it was another Anurag kashyap..the only other anurag kashyap is a 13 year old spelling bee champion..too much of a mozart to be a part of this himesh ensemble..the joke is on me..i didn’t even get paid enough for this creative nadir..the cheques stopped coming way back..so can’t even say i was paid a lot because no lot is a lot for it..what was i thinking..was i thinking..anywhere i go they have this strangest smile on there face and i wonder are they thinking shakespeare or they are just happy..most of them just look at me and say, hmmmm shaka laka.. worst is every time the promos come on air my daughter calls out to my maid and says,”shamsu..papa ki picture” and i try and tell her don’t say it out loud.. i hope she doesn’t tell her friends in school..or her teacher, or her school bus driver.. i am in that music video right now where everyone is looking into the camera and is just smiling..they are not shocked..they knew it..they were waiting..and they are actually carrying bouquets for the camera and guess who is the camera..and i am wondering was this a conspiracy..it would be so much easier to deal with if it was..suneel darshan pay me a crore..hope i learn my lesson..
Saturday after the film came out..i woke up early to read the reviews and they called it everything from “its so bad its a masterpiece” to not bothering to say anything..i hope i could say it was my grindhouse..why did i do it.. i wasn’t even so desperate for it..or for money.. i ignored all the warning signs.. i can talk about all the rewriting that went on in my absence but was it a classic to begin with.. no..two musicians in the suneel darshan world calling themselves genius..and everybody around them believing they were geniuses..and what have they to show for their musical genes.. the worst of himesh reshammiya..have i learnt from it..i hope so..i was expecting to be ripped apart on PFC..but nobody bothered..it can’t be that bad..or is everybody being kind toone of their own..do i bloody deserve to be called a their own..am looking desperately for someone to blame it on, but can’t find anyone except my vastu, fengshui and numerilogical errors..the actual dialogues were written by aannuurraagg kkashhyap..
Man, when they called it shakalaka boom2, and said rahul nanda thinks the title will look good on the posters and all went YEAAAH, i should have walked out then..but one has to understand..like leonidas says.. no retreat no surrender.. the xerxes and his army of immortals has got me.. i actually stayed on.. pl somebody tell me i was brave.. tell me i was preparing for glory and not whorey.. but then did i take so much interest in the film when it was going on.. no.. was i there to tell them where everyone was going wrong.. no..did i fight for it.. no..did i care..no..well..when you don’t care then this is what you get baby..commercial or not..when you make a choice you gotta care and i didn’t..i didn’t bother..when they called me i went..what they asked me to write..i wrote..i did not add anything to it..so all i can say for it is I AM SORRY and that is not enough..all i can say is never again..
Gawd..i wasn’t even bloody cynical when i said yes..all my friends were there to tell me why was i doing it and i just mumbled “you know”..before anyone says it to me i break out with an apology..sorry boss..Rajesh pandey koh toh kone mein le jaa kar maroonga, baaki ka kya karoon..
Moral of the story- next time one does something like it make sure the fees is fifty lacs without credit..better still mr. kashyap, avoid..you don’t need it anymore..
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
= It’s best you did it yourself… though I would have loved a more “slice and dice him” thingy (think Paanch on Desitrain)… but unfortunately most of PFC-ians (including me) just did not bother to see this Shaka whatever “fuck fuck”
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by the way HILARIOUS self review ;)
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Hilarious
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Dont be so hard on urself Mr Kashyap…
For every KABHI2/TRISHUL there is VIJAY/PARAMPARA
For every Pulp!Fiction there is Jackie!Brown
For every GHAYAL/DAMINI there is FAMILY/BARSAAT
Regards, JMD – M S Katohora
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Hahah…This is hillarious….i wanted to see this on Sunaday and my Dhoom2 loving roomies said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…… i was like eeeks…wow Dhoom2 public has grown up…no Boom2?
Will watch it on dvd for Celina juggs!!!!
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Hey anurag! You told that none ripped you apart. I think I was the first one to do that before your apology check it out: comment link
by the way, thanks for the apology. still, it doesn’t alter the crime you commited.
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goes to show why i was in the dark about you involved with this project the entire time.. i changed the channel everytime u-pain’s thobda came on screen.. we hear of “live ‘n learn”.. now it’s time to “learn ‘n live”. here’s hoping u do the same…
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Arey Bhaiya- Charles Foster Kane aka Antonio Ricci
itna MENTISENTAL kahe ho rahe ho??? Ab kya Bhagwan se miloge kaa…..
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Hilarious apology, Anurag. You say ‘I AM SORRY’. I think it is alright because you promise never again.
For me Honeymoon Travels was enough to let you be for the next few movies. I couldn’t believe the Black Friday man was writing such funny lines. Such versatility! The Shabana Azmi-Boman Irani airplane dialogue, all of Boman Irani’s dialogues…kept in splits for a long time.
As for Shaka Laka Boom Boom – Borrowing a line from the movie,
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Amit Singh, Don’t be angry yaar! [-x Just chill! I have not met but obviously seen some of the “bhagwaans” of world cinema. You’d know that if you had understood the truth behind my name. AK will understand that since my name is after the world classics. Well, I had already met the “BIGGEST BHAGWWAN” of indian cinema – SATYAJIT RAY. I think you’ll have to traverse a lot to meet such “GODS”. Please ask the genius (he is still a genius) AK to know the meaning of my names.
I respect AK tremendously ^:)^ . That’s why I became MENTISENTAL and wrote the piece.:d:d:d:d[-x[-x
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FUCK…Shaka Laka is so fucking awesomely bad… fuck i am rushing off to watch it Mr.Kashyap…HA HA HA…now i have something to get back at you!!! ha ha ha…Shaka Laka BOOM BOOM…nahin DOOM DOOM!!!
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Anurag, these prodigies have the genius to transform a FOUNTAINHEAD into a mega-masala-song-and-dance extravaganza, complete with the item numbers thrown in (Dominique Francon= Rakhi Sawant?), so why even be sorry for it?
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@Charles Foster Kane aka Antonio Ricci
i`m sure thats all true, my comment was in jest and i`m sure ur name proves u`ve seen and met gods of cinema. I`ve no reason to doubt it.
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Thank you Amit!
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Hello All!
There’s a news. Thanks to AK. Anurag Kashyap repenting SBB and Water in INDIAFM (AK giving interview to Indiafm!!!). This one’s awesome. http://indiafm.com/features/2007/04/11/2506/index.html
@Anurag.
Thank you man! Well I just wanna say a word or two.
Deepa Mehta – Just like SLB, she too is ( atleast for me) overrated. And this SKJs and Tarans going ga-ga for her film make me really think about the Indian critics. That nonsense SKJ says, “it hits you where it hurts the most.” Now what’s so awesome about water? Just showing a couple of cliched scenes doesn’t make a great film. The fact is that “real” plight of the widows was too minimized. BY THE WAY, DIALOGUES WERE BRILLIANT I don’t know if you the fact but Water is PLAGIARIZED from a novel by bengali writer, SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY. It’s called SEI SAMAY (THAT TIME). But just like she deceived you, she didn’t bother to credit SG. And takes all the accolades herself. I seriously wanna find what’s in the mind of these oscar people. Firstly WATER over RDB. Maybe I’m being SENTIMENTAL. Another quintessence of the wicked-ness of Academy, choosing THE LIVES OF OTHERS over VOLVER????? Though Kunal Kohli is not a great filmmaker, I liked his comments on WATER (and his oscar to you too!). What’s your take?
2) I just wanna know if your equations with Amitabh Bachchan has changed. Because two years ago you told about his performance in black (foolish critics say it’s the best ever) that it was good only by filmfare standards (that’s true). 4 months ago I liked the hilarious “award function at jalsa”. Even two months ago you were qouted, “You can’t talk about films and industry because Mr [Amitabh] Bachchan or somebody else might get upset.” Now you say “he makes anything sound incredible.” and you love hearing him mouthing your lines. Please elaborate. I’m not attacking you , just asking.
3) GURU, we all know that you were the one to pen GURU. You wrote it till the turkey portions (absolutely awesome). But you parted ways with MANI due to creative differences. You wanted to concentrate on his personal lifestyle rather than romantic relation with his wife. Now everytime something “different” from bollywood stable, critics go gaga over it. but i thought it was no masterpiece though it was “good”. Mani has gone overboard promoting his superhero, saint GURUkant. The film glorifies all kinds of misdeeds in business. till the intermission it was going well- guru has made it all by himself. but right after everything goes awry. he shows that guru is flesh-blood human being that he has characteristic flaws but goes glorifying his character and shows that it’s inevitable in business to avoid taxes, customs. Really? Does he know this film will distract lots of men who want to achieve success by perseverance? I think you wanted show his personal life because you wanted to show that he doesn’t absorb the oney of the people and IS one of them leading a life so simple. Even greater, he has portrayed all the journalists as villains who want to unmask them. And gawd, he compares his ruthless bizman to GANDHI!!! now what was that? Gandhi’s freedom struggle and his ruthless ambition are the same???? And people call it masterpiece? I am left speechless. Isn’t that a try to prove how great ambanis are (well, friends of bachchans)
Do you think MR is another DM who doesn’t bother to acknowledge you?
What’s you take on this and what modifications would you have done if you were in the complete writing process?
Please reply.
Thank you.
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Just read the indiaFM interview. Thanks ‘Charles Foster Kane aka Antonio Ricci’ for the link.
“Indians are the cheapest people the world over” That’s a bit harsh, Anurag. Have you never ever been given any credit by any Indian?
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@Charles Foster Kane aka Antonio Ricci, WATER plagiarised from SEI SAMAY? Dude you might have met the God of Indian cinema in person, but let’s not be too confident about things we are not so sure about! I’ve not seen WATER yet, but SEI SAMAY is a novel about Renaissance in nineteenth century Bengal, and WATER, correct me if I’m wrong, has nothing in common with the theme of the book, apart from maybe the timeline and Bengali characters. There is, indeed, a young widow character in the novel, but the book in general has little to do with the plight of widows in Benares of the time.
TONS OF APOLOGIES TO THE OTHERS: I KNOW THIS IS NOT A FORUM TO DISCUSS ALL THIS, BUT COULD NOT RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO STRAIGHTEN THAT OUT….
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Hey, take lite. you know one thing, when i got informed that you are the writer for SBB. i thrown out the paper from my hands. everyone of my roonies get wondered that what happened to me? i was upset apart from that news. i believe that you are the most contributed person in indian cinema till to date. on my child hood i used to admire ramgopal varma and maniratnam for their work. when i became a wannable film maker. i used to watch you because of your work. i came to know one thing about you is you are the most contributed fim maker till date. because the black friday taught me like that. this is my immeidiat opinion after watching the movie black friday. any way i am expecting alot of contribution to indian cinema from your side. i am woking on telugu cinema. you are one of my inspiration.
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Hi Anurag,
I have started reading ur blog from yesterday and finding it quite rude. I have not seen any one of ur movies but i heard quite a lot abt ur film black friday.
But in this post u are pretending as if u are criticizing yourself but u are actually pointing fingers at others. U say as u were not interested in the project so u have fucked the dialoges, in ur own words.
As if someone has dragged u into the project. If u were really good at ur work then even if the film was bad ur work could be noticed. Reading this post , i feel that u have started taking yourself very seriously. So before someone pointing at u let yourself do this.
So plz dnt take the work if are not able to take the responsibility. If u have taken the responsibility stand by it whether its bad r good. I am not saying here just go on telling good things abt the film or ur work.
Atleast try to take blame on yourself.
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ha ha ha.. i exactly know what u mean. i also rem’ber Water and Valley of Flowers. i guess it does happen once in a while. we all do it but i am only thankful that i am not Kashyap (much that i’d like to be)as yet.
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Anurag – some lines of a hymn comes to my mind after reading this. ” I’m only human ,I’m just a person “. Chill brother one Shaka Laka can’t change what you have done & what you are doing.
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@Amby,
You are right that sei samay is about 19th century ren. in bengal. it’s a huge novel. i’m not saying that they copied the novel or the characters outright. book DOES concentrate (in one part) about the plight of widows. Now the makers will claim that such events happpen all over. But the resemblance is too much to be a “coincidence”. If you see you’d realize. Atleast they could have come up with an idea very different. ZINDA-OLDBOY had no connection because there was an incest in oldboy and none in zinda; the setting was in bankok rather than seoul; lara was not sanjay’s daughter. but don’t we still call it a copy? Take time and give a rethink. But the point you pointed out is very good. Thank you! These things make a healthy discussion.
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Amby: Have not read the novel SEI SAMAY but Charles’s saying can not be wrong either as Sunil Gangopadhyay had sued Deepa Mehta and Deepa had become ready for out of court settlement. She did not need any settlement if she had not lifted material from his novel.
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Right RK! I forgot that point.
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Hi Anurag,
Can’t believe that lines like… iam the best,i want to be the best are actually written by you.So,who’s next in line…Guddu dhanoa,Rajkawar,Harry baweja,they equally deserve you ha..ha..ha.
CC
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Hello Mr Kashyap,
This is regarding a national story i’m doing for my paper. There’s no way I can reach you, but I really need to speak with you. is there any way we can talk? I assure you it’s a non-controversial topic that I’m working on. pls feel free to get back to me ASAP. awaiting your reply. thx.
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I wontch be zurprised if this boys getch the best actors award Anurag (said in RGV style)
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I really never had any problem with Anurag writing for money for all these blockbuster people. It has its advantages.
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1) You’ll find a couple of great lines in the worst films.
2)He is in touch with the money people for when he will need to make his kind of films.
But since we started this conversation I have started to feel weird about this whole self-flogging by Anurag. It is I think a very smart publicity move. Anurag knows his fans & their power on the internet & he is exploiting that to the maximum. Kudos to him!
But what bothers me is that this is not the first time he has worked for money. He has always been very honest about it & I admire that in him. So why apologise now? Because your name is credited this time? And the producers didn’t pay up?
Would he have written the same article if they had paid him rightly, or if the movie was doing very well?
But whatever it is, like always he has managed to get a lot of press for it.
And I think this article is going to make PFC even more popular now.
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Anurag-bhai… I dunno… See, I agree with Mainak when he says there’s nothing wrong with working on these projects for the $$$ and the possibility that maybe they will be able to help you make the films you WANT to make…
What I DO have a problem with is the fact that you did what every other cockadoodle writer had done to this point:
“..when you make a choice you gotta care and i didn
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Chalo, makes me want to watch “No Smoking” that much more because that will show us what you can really pull off…
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I agree with TONY completely.
And how much do they pay you for your soul?
how much is it for 1 commercial film that you get?
How much was promised for SLBB?
And I think you have made enough money by doing this to survive in a 2 bedroom flat for next ten years without working.
thats a privilage 90% of us dont have & which kills most of the artists in this world. How to have enuff money to pursue our dreams.
So I think maybe its time to stop.
You are probably the most talked about writer in India right now. What more does one need?
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Hi Anurag,
I didn’t understand your point of view at all. Maybe I am missing something here. You drop out of a much superior product, GURU, because you had creative differences with Mani but you stay along and write SLBB even though you know that its crap. I simply cant understand the paradox here. Is it that Mani didn’t pay you much for you to continue writing GURU and that Suneel Darshan was much more generous in paying you?
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Even though I don’t think GURU is a great film…I think its Mani’s weakest film I have seen so far(hence his biggest bollywood:) this is always true to most people) I think Anurag was involved in that project emotionally & their intention was to make a good film.
But for a film like SLBB its a bad product from the word go. There is no point having any creative differences on a film like that. there is nothing cretive to start with. How will you have differences then?
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i think i just got too snobbish about SLBB..and was focussing more on no smoking..
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The One Good Thing about Shakalaka Boom Boom:
Dilip Tahil says
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hey anurag, Now u are right. Anyways i am eagerly waiting to watch ur no smoking. I am sure it will be worth watching.
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@ oz
lol!!!
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Anurag
So far you have not dissapointed a single soul. But no matter what NO SMOKING will be your first movie that will be criticized. You are carrying just too much expectation right now. So get ready for it. But don’t lose heart. I know you won’t…but still its always good to tell. Even if everyone says its the worst movie ever made, keep movies that your heart tells you.
I’m getting very nervous about NO SMOKING with each passing day. I wonder whats going in your head!
Just saw GRINDHOUSE. Will write a review tommorow. It has the best car chase ever!
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@oz, desi train=AC trained=trained in Air Conditioning!! =))
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Anuragji,
I guess a writer of ur calibre and sensitivity can be spared a few miscues here and there. But dint the Boom Boom thingi blow the warning honks..Whosoever thought of such a name…
what was that again..:))
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This just hit me… it’s not your fault… anything with the word “BOOM” in the title is unlucky for the Hindi movie industry. ;)
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wonder what would happen if they made a BOOM 2 with the female cast of baywatch plus jenna jameson? i can guarantee at least oz, me, and OM would be in the theater first day, first show…
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anruag bhai
your frankness is almost scary.
what would the producer say if he reads this article??
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Anurag,
Forget about Shaka, Do you really believe
Nayak was a masterpeice?(no screenplay and most corniest lines)
Water overall was one big crap I have seen in recent times.
Satya and Yuva had their flaws.
I am not a great writer like you but I do believe these were not honest work
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haven’t seen the movie and don’t intend to. please don’t castigate yourself…when a movie is made dialogues will have to be written…you wrote dialogues for this one…best would be to forget you ever did a film like this…its not worth it!
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Shailesh- i don’t think anything i have been part of is a masterpiece..how do you define one..nayak wasn’t even a good movie..rest i completely agree with you
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“guru” was not good – good old mithun was the only saving grace. the insertion of a couple of songs in the movie was downright insipid.
to say that mani ratnam is overrated would be a cliche of the first order.
deepa mehta is hardly a good director. “fire” was unbearable. actually, “earth” was not good either. i skipped “water” simply because i had found both “fire” and “earth” overrated and overhyped.
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satyavan bhaiya: you burnt with FIRE and though ran on EARTH but did not jump in to the WATER?
What put off the heat then? :-w
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(47)Shailesh:
Dont know exact age of Anurag Kashyap, but roughly he shd be in his mid 30s. IMDB writes Satya in 1998. That means he might have written sometime in 1997 so 10 years ago, he might have been in his mid 20s and Satya as a first film, should be a praiseworthy attempt. How you can say that the person, who is getting a chance to write a film at the age of 25, was not honest while writing it. On the contrary any person will put his most honest energies and focus in his first attempt.
Perhaps you selected wrong examples for criticism. Its seldom that one writes a character like Bheekhu Mahtre in Satya. Dialogues in Yuva were matching with the charecters, whatever fictcious they were. and often dialogues tried to bring reality touch also. When Om Puri unashamedely welcomes these young turks in assembly he says scary but wonderfully realistic dialogues.
Re: other films like Nayak, you may be right but Satya and Yuva were results of good writing.
Sorry for disagreement but your honesty factor compelled me to comment.
Because anybody who wishes to make career in films, will be utterly honest in his first film. result may be dependent on his talent but efforts cant be without honesty.
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Anurag we appreciate your frankness and honesty, but seriously now your just being too hard on yourself.
There’s not a creative person out there who, after viewing a previous work of theirs (no matter how “acclaimed” or “appreciated”) won’t say they could’ve done better, or that they compromised on this or that, or that they see a few major flaws that others may be overlooking, or whatever the case may be… when you go back and watch Satya or Yuva now, you may not think its all that great but to us, we still love it and think its fucking awesome…
Everything needs to be put in context. SLBB wasn’t going to be a classic at the outset and everyone (besides Sanjeev Dharshan and Upen Patel) knew that… you had to work within that vision and we all get that…
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RK – great way of looking at things…
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First film you try your best and are completely honest because you don’t know..after the first film you know and thats where slide begins..
nice vation RK..spot on
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BREAKING NEWS- LOINS OF PUNJAB wins best feature at the first run fim festival in new york..
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i am sorry the film is calle LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS..
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Here’s some more on “The Loins of Punjab Presents” in light the above mentioned award its just won…
http://in.movies.yahoo.com/070413/24/6ej56.html
Shabana Azmi is very impressed with its director, quoted as saying: “Trust me Manish has talent in the same measures as Farhan Akhtar.”
Coming from an actress the calibre of Shabana Azmi that’s one helluva compliment…
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I hope Manish does not go the Farhan Akhtar route & stays true to his passion for good cinema.
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Anurag,
I do agree with the fact that ur disillusioned with ur selves that u were associated with a project like slbb…but the fact remains as pointed out by u in one of ur previous blogs on PFC tht i have read is that its ultimately the director who is responsible for making or breaking a film…If it has turned out to be a crap movie its just becoz suneel darshan does not know two hoots on how to direct a movie…
I dont think he even understands a story or a screenplay and seriously feel that he lacks vision when it comes to movies…
When u say that u did it for the money i fail to understand asto why did u need to say yes to a person like suneel darshan who does not know a jackshit abt movies…
U could have got the money with any other bigshot filmmaker in the industry who are involved in making those so called mediocre love stories,banal family dramas and asinine thrillers…Atleast your dialogues could have made those sort of movies bearable…
Anyways i am waiting for NO SMOKING…
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Awesomely honest. The movie was the pits and what acting man !! Anurag, u can win the Nobel peace prize. No one would want to wage war if they were told they had to see this movie. ha..ha..ha..
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RK, Satya and Yuva were indeed splendidly written films…except, Om Puri’s character (“Prosonjit” Bhattacharya) was one of the most ridiculous caricatures ever to have been part of Indian meaningful cinema. Such characters are omnipresent in Bollywood per se, but coming from the pen of Anurag Kashyap, it was disappointing to note him reinforcing an oft-used cliche of a Bengali leader who spoke his own version of Hindi. Event the accent was hardly Bengali! Perhaps that’s why Mr. Bhattacharya stands in a different plane of reality than a Michael Mukherjee or Lallan Singh or Arjun….More like the handiwork of Mehul Kumar or Anil Sharma rather than AK. Another of your characters rewritten, Mr. Kashyap?
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it was just om puri’s take on the character..lines were exjhagtly the way they were written
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Hey guys,
Came across this interesting story…perhaps some of you from the industry can shed some light on whether this is true or not?
Click it here!
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@Anurag, got it….but don’t you think his ‘take’ on the character made it the single most unrealistic and odd part in the whole film, one that stood out like a sore thumb? Maybe that’s stretching things a bit too far, but imagine lines like “Hum jo bola woh tumhare matha me dhuka?” I remember in one of your articles here in PFC how fondly you referred to Lallan Singh as your baby and how Aby’s Baby failed to get into his skin. How could a person with such fond possessiveness over his creations not resent this?
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whatever it is…it adds up to an experience….atleast u can tell when asked “how does it feel”….it’s not tht u dn’t have an answer to it or u havn’t been through it…and also even the most embarassing situation can help destress u…it was a commercial,a total commercial beat,n u not only earned somethin out of it,but a had a good break too!!!
dn’t u think so???
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The movie ad’s alone are enough to put me of this movie. Great post Anurag .. amusing apology
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anuRag really an awesOme blOg written by yOu and its very much special as you yourself have written it..
anuRag its not the thing to get disappointed for, that why did i went for it but its the most important part, realizing that not committing a mistake like this any more.
i have seen ur work in Satya, which was amazing and really Satya in itself was worth for me to be a part of ur fan club..
and then one after one i was goin on noticing you and i found that really u were amazing..
Yuva could have been a milestone for you but, i can understand that there would have been many problems as you yourself were not the director.
BLACK FRIDAY – you proved youself but the basic problem occured with the advertisment campaigns.
but nyways black friday was an awesome cinematic experience that one could ever forget.. and yeah really THANX for that..!!
again you should be proud of films like Honeymoon Travels.. and yeah i have forgot SHOOL..again a film with whom everyone would lOve himself to be related with and the fact is that you were the one whom anyone could ever miss associating with Shool..
and now except then being a part of all this kind of intellectual stuff you have also done PENGUINS-a lOve stOry..which in itself is a grreat thing.
……….so just dont think of shakalka fuck Fuck anymore,
we all are eXitingly waiting for….
….nO-smOking..!!
ALL THE BEST..!!!!
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Anurag, Managed to lay my hands on the Black Friday VCD and watched it over the weekend. Just one word to describe. Mindblowing.
As long as you give us Black Friday, Satya, Shool etc, we dont mind forgiving you for an occasional “Shakalaka Bomb Bomb” ;)
Keep up the terrific work. Looking forward for some more gems from you.
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Hi Anurag,
There is no room for your apology and excuse you have delivered a crap that is it. Off late you have become a double standard person pls Zamin pe aaja Black friday ka nasha abhi tak utraa nahin kya. You have done shakalaka bom that is the truth so stay with that aur apne project ki koi marta hai uskko kya bolte hai woh tu hi decide kar. Just bez producer ke sath differences hai toh uske burai nahin karte. Grow up and don’t be cynical. Don’t forget joh log (public apun log)upaar chada sakte hai woh log do second mein tereko zamin pe gira bhi sakte hai.
appu
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Anurag,
I didn’t mean to doubt your integrity towards your profession. Apologies!!!
Although Satya remains my fav film, I was only disappointed with the language used in the film which sounded more from North Indian Politician. I definitely believe that script got screwed up because of Saurabh Shukla (His subsequent work on acting and directing has amply proved it)
That thing was pretty much corrected in Black Friday (The dialogue and language in the tabela scene was mind-blowing – bang on)
Am looking forward to No Smoking (your own story and no producer pressure)
Good Luck to you.
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62: Amby,
Prasonji Chakravorty (Om Puri’s character) speaks Hindi with Bangla tone. Can there be any standard rules for speaking a langauge other than your mother tongue. India’s different states speak English and Hindi, with different tones and even in same state, people speak with different tone and pronunciation of same word is different.
Perhaps I dont get your point. But if Om Puri, being a bangla character speaks wrong Balnga then it can be seen with critical eyes but his hindi phonetics can be taken with liberal ways.
Often we dont mind, when characters of Chokher Bali speaks almost chaste Hindi though they are typical bangalis. If director wishes them to speak excusive langauge it is fine.
I am not sure but perhaps many people who live near Bihar side in Bengal, may use that kind of tone which Om Puri has used. and then people belonging to east and west bengal have different style of hindi speaking.
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Anurag sir,SLBB is absolute zilch in front of ur other works so u need not be so hard on yourself! Starting from Last Train to Mahakali (which singlehandedly changed the way I viewed cinema & acting) to BF which is an outright masterpiece I feel u still r 1 of the most awesome people in the industry 2day the others bng Kay Kay , Pankaj Kapoor(both Gods 4 me), & recently Ranvir Shorey,BomanIrani& Vinay Pathak But u remain the most honest person around just b the way u r & keep up the gr8 wrk!By the way cud u pls gv sum info abt Last Train… after watching it I bcame a simply ENORMOUS FAN or u & Kay Kay! hope u rd this…. am eagerly waiting!
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Oh yeah how can I forget the Indian Bard on Celluloid- Vishal Bharadwaj!Another master!!! Anurag sir 1 more question if u don’t mind: btwn Kay Kay & Irfan Khan who do u thnk has more range? U r right Ranvir is bloody versatile though I feel not as much as Kay Kay: I would like to see the zanier side of Kay Kay more often like in HPTL; man, that guy never fails to astound me ;neither do u!
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Anurag, if one never respects his work, he will never go far. You signing Suneel Darshan’s movie and blasting it while the movie is in first week is cheap thing to do. Suneel Darshan makes his type of movies. He has the right, he asked(hired) you and you cud’ve rejeceted. But instead you write, get paid and blast it during the first week of release killing its chances. This is ridiculous.
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its not that simple maxy.. in this industry when something does not work its blamed on the writer.. when and after the script is written everyone on the set becomes a writer..when it doesn’t work , only the writer takes the blame.. when it works even the producer takes the credit for writing it.. i know what i have written.. i am waiting for the big man himself to react.. he doesn’t seem to..
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Anurag, agreed that the writer has to take quite a bit of crap lots of times. Every second director, overlooking the mediocrity of their own craft, laments the lack of good writers and scripts. I’m sure it’s frustrating to see a completely different version of your script on screen. Also true is the fact that despite the writer being one of the most important pivots of a film, he/she is not given the due credit (unlike the era of Salim-Javed at their peak where their names were sufficient for a film to be sold). Despite all the unfairness, I still think that though you’ve been critical of yourself, you’re not actually willing to take the blame for SLBB. It’s really easy to disown something if you’re not satisfied with it. You say you knew that the film was heading nowhere. Why didn’t you just walk out of it? Don’t tell me that it would’ve been professionally unethical because what you are doing now is not very ethical either. If your cheques haven’t reached, sort it out with the person concerned. If you think doing the film was a mistake, accept it and move on. Ripping it apart is no redemption.
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Anurag…kya kar daala re?
Cool banne ke chakkar mein apne pair pe kulhadi mar diya re!
What have you done Anurag…. Trying to be cool, you just fucked yourself over.
This article will bite you for the rest of your life now!
Your big man will not react on a forum like this. He will react everyday. You will know soon. I wish you luck! You just gave all your critiques a life time of ammunition.
They are gonna blow your NO SMOKING into a pile of shit!!!
I hope i’m wrong….I hope you keep making great movies. But the realist in me says you have some shit times ahead of you brother!
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well have nothing to say..there is more here than meets the eye.. i have been part of only flop films.. none of them has been a blockbuster.. if one comes out in public with what one feels for one in particular there has to be reason.. its not trying to be cool..its about lies and lies and egos and i am not scared of the critiques and the kulhadi..i did main aisa hi hoon, i did jung.. nothing can be worse than jung.. there the fuckups were genuine.. mistakes were because it couldn’t be bettered.. all tried there best..i don’t have others permission to talk..so i take it upon myself.. i am ready for the consequences..
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I agree Anurag could have put forth more of an effort to do the best with what he had to work with.
But at the end of the day the person who has the final say over the product is, in this case, Suneel Darshan. If Anurag wrote what he thought were some fiery, controversial, in your face dialogues and Suneel thought “Nahin yaar, yeh sab hamare family audiences to acha nahin lage ga” all he has to say is “Isko thoda change kardo”… and he doesn’t even have to say that to Anurag.
He can say that to whatever other writer he was working with and thats the end of that.
There’s only so much a writer can do. This is why many a writer have turned to directing and many a director have turned to writing. Its the only way to stay true to what was envisioned during the scripting stage.
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i think Mr. anurag ur a selfish filmmaker vth selfimage, u seems lost ur direction…n finding it at pfc.all self expectations. but seem ur not reading alot these days.or had watched a lot foren fictures..most probably no smoking is coming out as u expected.
im great fan of Mr.vishal bhardwaj n urs.when i was young ‘chappa chappa charcka chale’..i can’t remember wat i felt but atankwaadi became hero..when i watched maqbool i decided 2 change field..when i watched ur black friday its ‘as final that u have 2 go a long way before u say sorry…. we can’t understand a lot of things, u ppl became fairytale 4 us…its tarara.fuck..now **==
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Ok, thanks for the reply Anurag. I was reacting if you are dumping SLBB just coz its badly made movie or for personal reasons. So, I get that its for personal reasons with Suneel than the quality, right? Also, you are not happy with your final cut of your script. Right?
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@RK, none and nobody in this country, whether he is Bengali or not, speaks Hindi the way uttered by Om Puri in Yuva. Many Bengalis do speak pretty fucked up Hindi, as is pretty well-known, but what Om Puri’s character reinforced was a cliche about Bengali-Hindi (reminds one of a similar cliche, that of Southie-Hindi….most Southie characters in Hindi Commercial Cinema speak an accent which none of the Southie peoples do), reminiscent of a similar caricature, that of the Bengali leader in a pot-boiler called ‘Krantiveer’, who kept screaming “E na cholbe” at the slightest provocation….the way some people in Bengal speak Hindi is undoubtedly pretty queer and comical in a way, but Mr. ‘Prosonjit’ (hardly a Bengali name; the nearest Bengali equivalent is ‘Prosenjit’) speaks with an accent which is unidentifiable with any part of India…he is ust one in a long line of mainstream/masala ‘funny guys’ who speak with a regional twang. The question of his credibility as a beleivable character (and the obvious absence of any research that went into it) arises BECAUSE the creator is Anurag Kashyap….a man who we have come to respect and look up to, for his extraordinary convictions and commitment to all that is meaningful and credible in cinema, and who is one of the flag bearers of the ‘new wave’….
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Hi Amby,
I reacted on abhishek’s performance because he was hailed by everyone.. om puri’s performance was panned by everybody so there was no need to react.. yes his character came across as caricature though it wasn’t inteneded to..
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amby,
GALTI HO GAYEE.(Dawood in bf)
anurag is juice but do we need 100 spoons…..?anurag is still a orange, in the season of ‘aam’ directors…n he ’s writer of ‘kaun’kind of story.. which always needed manoj bajpai…
plz.. anyone.. tell me wat’s his(anurag kashyap) birth date..?
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well,i finally managed to see the film…n…yeah…no doubt,it’s a horrible one….there was nothin great about the dialogues even…i guess,u must have dragged urself to write it down after the story was presented to u,n good bucks as well….but u know wat,watever i have written, before this one, on ur post…i guess it was all rubbish…someone who has written for films like yuva and satya,can end up writting this??
what were u thinking????
(hari patti pe gandhiji ka chera)
there’s one sayin tht i stick to,no matter what happens–”adjust for a cause and compromise for nothin”…..i believe compromises are for those who are weak,and thus they let go off their principles..and u r definately not tht kind…i know it for sure…
i hope to see somethin better that can compromise over this trash…i’m really sorry for being too abrupt,just that,i’m a great fan of ur work,n criticisms should be a part of it..
all the best for ur future projects..
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It depends on whether Anurag wishes to be known for something or not. If it doesn’t matter, then why should anyone care.
I didn’t see the movie. I didn’t know that he wrote the film until I saw him say it on tv. I kept away because of Suneel Darshan, Bobby Deol, Himes combination. It sounded terrible to begin with.
You got the money, then you are responsible for the writing as well. That’s for the sake of criticism.
A more serious question-Honestly how many stories do writers really have?
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Hey Anurag,
This is S. Anand from Scindia School. Been reading about your works and just finished seeing Black Friday. We liked it yaar.
Email me sometimes….and keep up the good work. You always had the filmi angle in you. I am soooo glad you are living your dreams…
Anand
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Hello? when do we get to see a first cut of no smoking/
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Coming soon..in theatres near you….dont miss it. Weak hearts stay away…..pregnant women stay away….old monks stay away….rest all…quit smoking or learn how to…watch ” No Smoking”….No Smoking…coming soon..in theatres near you….C U there.
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dude anuraag your article is making me wanna see the movie desperately.. in a way you are promoting the movie for free again..
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hey i am the 3rd anurag but dont take my name 4 the shit u wrote after seeing black friday i considered u a genius but shakalaka doom doom i would rather go stuck pins in m eyes rather than wathching shakalaka…… anyway we forgive u u r a genius and wiill be
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hi anurag,
“well have nothing to say..there is more here than meets the eye.. i have been part of only flop films.. none of them has been …….”
why do u sound so disturbed man?….u have made some very good movies and black friday was too good!…take it easy…things will fall into place very soon…believe me…i am an astrologer too(just kidding)..
raaj
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howlarious , but truly Shakalaka BB is quite the masterpiece :d/:d/
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Anurag
In your writing process.. how does it all begin?
Do you visualise the characters first? Do you begin from the basic plot and start building on that? Do you take it scene by scene? Is there a way you can generalise your process or is it varied depending on a project-to-project basis. If thats the case, could you talk about the writing process you followed for NO SMOKING…
Also… I would like to know the amount of detail present in your screenplays. Thanks.
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hi anurag,
i m a new comer on pfc. its so nice see u on this site. its great to read ur ideas. u r the one of the favourate writer for me. basically i m jaipur based journalist. i m the friend of dinesh pradhan. i like u very much. keep it up man. i want to meet u. whenever i will come bombay. gulal ka kya hua?
take care.
ramkumar singh
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The only thing you have to say you’re sorry about is not having Upen Patel shirtless for the full length of the movie, then I could have taken my finger off the fast forward button on my remote for the whole movie. I wish had found this site sooner cause I’m way behind….
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hi anurag sir..u just dont know what u’re up to. we needed someone to change it all…n here you are. you did wonders with black friday n im a big fan of urs. Bollywood movies today are just a fucking way to entertain illiterate fuckers. 99 percent of indian viewers know nothing abt cinema..n its da most unfortunate situation. i wish..u rise very above.im waitin for no smokin to release.
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