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iView Author: The Narcissist (Goa, India)

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Portrait of a director - Hrishikesh Mukherjee
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There has been a lot of discussion in recent times about the quality of movies being churned out in Bollywood. I had posted a comment on the news item about Fox entering the Indian movie market where I’d stated my thoughts vis-a-vis the quality of movies being made these days and its relation to the money coming into the industry. This spurned a thought in my mind about heavyweight filmmakers of yore. I’m sure today’s directors can learn a trick or two from the veterans and that coupled with the finances at their disposal, there’s no reason why Bollywood shouldn’t attain dizzy heights.

The first name that spontaneously came to my mind while thinking about these directors was Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Maybe …

As informed in the post Director is like a God walking on earth : Shyam Benegal a new series “Initial Steps” is started with this interview of Director Ashutosh Gowarikar.

Thanks a lot to Ajay Brahmatmaj who provided his detailed Interview with
Ashutosh Gowarikar to PFC.

Here is the first part of the interview.

From now onwards Ajay Bramatmaj will be represented by AB and Ashutosh Gowarikar by AG.

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[Following is the translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview so to read the exact sayings of Ashutosh Gowarikar, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi]
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AB: Where you spent your childhood. You belong to Mumbai or came here from outside. When you were introduced …