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If a team of Raj Khosla, Dev Anand, Jal Mistry, Rajindra Singh Bedi decides to make a film then its understood that direction will give us many thrilling moments to watch in the film and Cinematography will be of top quality. Rajindra Bedi’s story, inspite of having some inspirations from O Henry’s short story A Double Dyed Deceiver becomes unconventional when Bedi inserts incestuous angle in the plot and it was certainly a shocking theme for those days hindi cinema.

Dev Anand provides that valuable input to the character which is required to uplift this kind of story of crime, punishment and atonement.

Suchitra Sen produces that persona and performance which may compel Dev Anand’s character to go against social norms.

On surface it has incestuous angle but no it is not The Cement Garden and It does not even take route of Desire Under …

In continuation with the first part of the interview( Ashutosh Gowarikar : I missed the Prem’s role in Maine Pyar Kiya ) of Director Ashutosh Gowarikar, taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , second and concluding part is presented here.

AB: If you had become a successful actor then we could not have got film like Lagaan and we could have missed the director Ashutosh Gowarikar also.

AG: Yes Yes…I have thought on this many a times. I am not certain about what actor Ashutsoh Gowarikar could have done after becoming successful? But if my early two films Pehla Nasha and Baazi had worked even then also Lagaan could not have been made. It was possible then that in my old age perhaps I could have tried to make such a film. Perhaps there would not have been existed any need to do so. My producers may feel …

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 …

Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Fellini, Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, James Ivory etc etc
and
PC Barua, Sohrab Modi, Mehboob, Kedar Sharma, Bimol Roy, K. Asif, Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Mani Ratnam, Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Mani Kaul, Basu Chaterjee, Hrishikesh Mukharjee, Chetan Anand, BR Chopra, Yash Chopra, Vijay Anand, Ramesh Sippy, Shekhar Kapur etc etc are the names which have been taking us on the visual tours to show us their chosen stories and we have been enjoying these virtual rides sitting under mesmerisation of the over all phenomenon of the cinema. We have laughed and cried by seeing their films. Rather we have been re-living again and again all 9 rasas by watching …

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Baazi: A revelation for me!

As I was buying my groceries for the week, I glanced through the DVD collection that the desi store had for rent. I wasn’t expecting to rent anything new and I wanted to get my mind off with some movie that made no sense. So, I picked up Kaafila, yes, the Sunny Deol one that deals with the issue of illegal immigration. Along with that DVD on the rack, I found another DVD which was cheaper to rent and it had two movies Baazi and Patita. I picked that up. I had seen Baazi a long time ago when all I knew was Dev Anand was the hero and I laughed at a few comic situations I could understand. Anyway, I had been wanting to watch this movie since …