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Second and concluding part of the excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Anurag Kashyap(AK), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here.

[Following is the loose translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview. Its advisable that one should go through the original interview to read the exact sayings of Anurag Kashyap. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi at all]

AB: After writing 40 pages of a script you decided that you would direct it yourself. To direct a film is first step. What happened next? You accepted yourself as a director but to make a film you need money which would come from other sources and to give you money people need to have a faith in you.

AK: There has been an internal …

In continuation of the series “Initial Steps“, excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Raju Hirani(RH), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), are presented here.

Ajay writes about Raju Hirani

First time I had met Raju Hirani in the office of Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Munna Bhai MBBS was not released yet. Most of the journalists were interviewing VVC. I saw that a shy man was silently sitting on a bench. Shining in his eyes pulled my attention and I approached him and got to know that he was the director of Munnabhai MBBS. I did a formal newspaper kind of interview with him and came back. Film was released and got a success. I met him again and this time it was a long meeting.
Coincidently I got to know bit earlier because of my sources that Munna Bhai MBBS was given the National award. I …