Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Where the maverick filmmaker goes wrong OR Am I confused

iView Author: Shashank Walia
(Delhi, India)
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Where the maverick filmmaker goes wrong OR Am I confused ?
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Now nobody can ignore the contribution of Vidhu Vinod Chopra in bringing quality cinema to India after a decade of qualitative and creative block. He was one of the first few directors who dared to be different in that existing era of commercialization. He is over-confident, self obsessed but at the same time he is highly talented. The aesthetical and technical sense of this director is considered to be one of the finest in today’s time.

Starting with Murder at the Monkey Hill, his diploma film at FTII, it promised us an intelligent filmmaker in making. The film was a satirical pop up …


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