Mere Paas Maa hai…
We’re outside the mixing room at Empire Studio.
The final mix of Vaastu Shastra is on.
“Are you sure you want your name on the credits to go as Sourabh Usha Narang”, he asks.
“Absolutely”, i reply instantaneously.
“Usha is your mother’s name, right?”
” Yes “, i reply.
There is a moments silence.
I take a long drag on my stamina stick; Ram Gopal Varma takes an even longer pause.
” You are aware that many people out there will say that you’re aping a certain Sanjay Leela Bhansali”, he says finally.
A smile flickers across my face… RGV notices.
“What?” he wonders.
“Do you want a straight answer or a filmi one?” i ask.
“Both”, RGV says, without batting an eyelid.
” To answer you directly- i don’t care what anyone thinks. As far as i’m concerned my role model is my mother. Which is why I always keep her close to me… in the middle of my name!”
‘And the filmi one?’, he queries.
My reply is prompt: ‘Mere pass maa hai!”
Thank you Oz for inviting me to write a diary for PFC… and to Surya and Karthik who helped in the same…i guess this back story illustrates to you’ll why i wanted to call my diary what it is…
Not only does the phrase have an almost cult like significance in Hindi film history… but it has a beautiful personal resonance for me as well.
A huge hello to everyone of the PFC family… feels great to be on board… Cheers!
Sourabh
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
Hey Sourabh,
Finally you are here, congrats and welcome. Hope to read more of your experiences…. oops… oh no… “mere pass bhi maa hain” she just hit me on my head and just reminded me that i need to sleep as its too late at night. Good have you here bro…
= A very warm welcome director of Vaastu Shastra… Sourabh… Great landing on PFC… I sure us cine fanatics would like to hear more, discuss more and exchange more vibrant ideas with every new post of yours. Love the title by the way.
For non Hindi readers
Mere Pass Maa hain is a famous dialogue uttered by Shashi Kapoor to Amitabh Bachchan in one the biggest hits “Deewar” in Hindi cinema… in Hinglish it means “I have my mother”
Welcome aboard Sourabh!
welcome to PFC
welcome to PFC sourabh.. great job surya, for coordinating this effort with us
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Welcome to PFC Sourabh
… looking fwd for some exciting posts…
Welcome..
Waiting for more info on “the never understandable” RGV..
He is the person who made Satya and he is the same person who made Shiva2006!
welcome to PFC -
welcome to the mad house:)
welcome. look forward to your diary
A very warm welcome Sourabh. BTW…loved the title…it cant get any filmi than this. Who needs mothers day when our one line says it all. And here’s one more filmy dialogue for u….my mom makes me feel like S’U'N. Should use the short form as well,Mr SUN. Hope to read many more intersting posts from u.
Aur Oz bhaiya ki ek baar phir jai ho!!
Hey Striker boy – Comeon yaar, you don have to thank me dude… its all in the family now. Three cheers to Sourabh… He is gonna rock. I have worked with him before as his associate, though he probably doesnt find me competent enough to work with him in his films. Knowing that nothing is happening in my career as a director, lets see if he will cast me in his film as an actor.
hey saurabh .. good to have u on the team !!!
A very warm welcome to u :-)
Welcome aboard sourabh!!! Great to have you here…
Just wanted to let you know that I watched your movie in hyd during along with a girl whom I desperately wanted to pataofy and while watching the movie, the sound effects were so great that she ended up cuddling me for the whole time…
The movie was grt baap… Keep wm coming!
Welcome to the addiction Saurabh..Hope to see more of your writings soon…
Welcome ‘home’ Saurabh :-)
Welcome! Looking forward to your posts. Congratulations on sticking to your guns
what a sweet post.
welcome welcome
:d
That was quite funny…welcome onboard, Sourabh! (Though I must confess I didn’t like VS…but haqeeqat was pretty good!)
thanks a ton for your responses guys… surya, Oz, wb, chaitanya, baarish, smriti, rony, vasan, om, dpac, shripriya, sana, and striker…
phoenixnu- quite bizarre u mentioned it, actually toying with the acronym S.U.N for my next film…
ravptor- just curious, u still with that girl?
jahan- thanks for the honesty… yes, haqeeqat is more ‘me’ than VS…
you’re absoulutley right Om… this is addictive!
bests!
Hi Saurabh,
Do let us know in you coming posts on the first feature experience and Horror to start with. In some RGV interview to rediff.com I read, RGV said u made a better horror film than Bhoot….He was spooked by Vastu Shastra. Also in the same breath he mentioned that Bhoot was his best film as he had made Bhoot without a script…which he feels is the most challenging job and puts to test the director in him.
Woh sab toh theek hain where is our next post sir???? If you don’t write one soon, Yaad rakhna, mere pass bhi maa hai… actually dadi amma bhi hain… :d
coming soon surya… was hoping to get inspired by your post on THE birthday party at Aurus… to kind of spin me into action… ha.. ;)
Ok sourabh…wanted to tell u somethin. i was shit scared after i saw vaastu shastra. i still am :(
Sourabh – Am glad with that reply of yours warna maa bohot bhadki hui thi… Birthday party was good. A very classy but low key affair. Nothing worth mentioning except for RGV entering meeting everybody, and his first reaction after seein me is “So mr. sZurya you have come all clean shaven and all for the Birthdy party hmmm?” that was it… afterwards he was obviously surrounded by many. Though Jiah was looking extremely sexy, and the ambience and the music was good. A very well organized event. All thanks to Giggan Shukla and her team from the Aamby Valley Hospitality. Our friend Amit Roy too was present.
Along with the miif ltd… which was also he part of the event… thanks to Akshay… your team rocks sir…
Surya, Did you guys play dumb-Charades at the party? ;) LA aajao kabhi we will party here too…If you cannot party without Jiah…A big cut-out of hers can be arranged…:) or better tag her along…
ha ha ha OM… Saale… No we did not play Dumb Charades everybody was too busy drinking, chatting and enjoying. It was fun… LA agli saal i will be there… we can play then… but how will you enact Butch cassedy and the sun dance kid? Amit Roy jacked our opposition party at Munnar. The equation was him, me and abhi and the rest of the unit… It was mind blowing. But next year LA is for sure dude…
lahol vilaa quwat… masha allah yeh kya baat hui bhai? hum aapke post ka bade hi besabri se intezaar kar rahe hain…
I always had this question but got the opportunity to ask now…Who proposed “Vaastu Shastra”?
Arrey mere Dost, mere bhai, mere friend, mere philosopher, mere boss, mere guide…. all said and and done? where is our next post… “tumhe mere maa ki kasam hain”
P O S T N U M B E R T W O D E D E M A A A A A, T U J H E M E R E M A A K I K A S A M H A I.
Hey Sourabh,
You are depriving me and all your fans of your experiences sir… can we have some more insights and your experiences on filmmaking and films per se?
Hey Sourabh..nice to c u on pfc…guys,i had th honour to work wit Mr.Sourabh as his Assistant Director on Vaastu Shastra..and he rocks as a Director and as a person too:)
looking forward to hear from u sourabh..
Cheers,
Vikas.
why remake ‘the shining’ again and again. I know that vaastu shastra is a forgotten past but RGV has already made a similar film ‘Deyyam’ in Telugu and it was over hyped and fell flat at the box office..I think RGV has made you a scapegoat….and pls dont fall again…
kofy:)
any tips for new strugling writer in indrustry….sourabh…
Hey Sourabh, nice to see your blog. I did not know you even directed Don, i love it absolutely and have seen almost every episode.
Love to catch up sometime….
Nirav