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KKG is about observation. Observation about happenings around us and observation about people and their behaviour and their mannerisms have been included in the film.

On one side deep observation of day to day life of middle class characters are presented in a very good cinematic manner and on other side larger than life touch also has been given in the second half of the film and this blending looks so good on screen. KKG has observation about changing times and it touches the contemporary theme/s.

Authentic characterization is also a strong merit present in the KKG.

Khosla Family:

Aging parents, younger son is quite established and enjoying the success of IT area but elder son is not settled professionally because either he has got traditional studies which can not give him a good career in changing times or he was not good in studies and being a middle class …

We love to watch the cheating designed by Robert Redford and Paul Newman against Robert Shaw in The Sting, where they establish a false set up where Robert Shaw could be and would be conned. This is intriguing, interesting and thrilling to watch it and it remains interesting even during the repetitive watch also when we know in no uncertain terms what is going to happen and no mystery is involved anymore for us in the plot. Knowing the plot does not reduce our joy and after first watching we enjoy the feeling that this is the plot and how convincingly it is shown visually.

We love to watch Carl Reiner going into the casino as a rich man to establish the background to steal the money of Andy Garcia in Ocean’s Eleven .

Khosla Ka Ghosla tries to combine the Hrishikesh Mukharjee kind of film …

iView Author: The Narcissist (Goa, India)

Email: withheld

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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 …

Second and concluding part of the excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Raju Hirani(RH), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here.

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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 Raju Hirani, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi at all]
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AB: How could you preserve your dream of directing the films? Advertising work was fetching you good money. Did this not distract you from your dream of filmmaking?

RH: I had not come from Nagpur with a thought that I would make documentaries or would do Ad films. I think nobody comes thinking this sort of things. I did not know about Ad films …

iView Author:Bhavesh Purohit
(Mumbai, India)
EMAIL:b_star87 [at] hotmail [dot] com

Title: Searching Hrishikesh…

About me, I have been a very silent reader of PFC but I liked it throughout and was just searching time to write in it.

I have seen all kinds of discussion here on PFC about world cinema where people praise directors like kurosawa, kielowski and tarantino, lynch. Of course they are brilliant and I love few of them too. But somewhere I also noticed that a lot of great Indian directors are ignored and discussed mostly in comments section. I thought about one of my favourite directors Late. Hrishikesh Mukherjee and even here where people are so passionate about films forget this passionate director. Maybe he have been discussed but I am sure not much.

Infact Hrishida, don’t know why is always ignored when great directors from Indian cinema are counted. He made so …

To continue the series “Initial Steps”, excerpts from an interview of Director Prakash Jha,
taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , are presented here.

Ajay writes

I had started my interview series with the interview of Prakash Jha. He is my elder and to some extent my guide also. Perhaps it is difficult, at present, to evaluate the contribution of Prakash Jha to Hindi cinema but he has brought a new language to the Hindi cinema.

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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 Prakash Jha, one should go through the original interview. This is simply a trial to expose the interview to those readers who can not read Hindi at all]
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From now onwards Ajay Bramatmaj will be represented by AB and Prakash Jha …