Anurag Kashyap: Noir is the story of underdog for me

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

Full interview will appear in Ajay Brahmatmaj’s book “Meri pehli film” which will be published soon by Antika Prakashan.

[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: “I want to make a film”. When you developed this thought? How and where this journey was started?

AK: In a way this journey was started from the International film festival of Delhi held in 1993. In the retrospective section I saw …


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RGV’s filmi kundali before Sarkar Raj opens

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Krishna
(Hyderabad, India)
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RGV’s filmography


Sarkar Raj which is going be released on 6th June 2008 has attracted a lot of attention by the media and by the movie lovers due to RGV’s previous box office failure ‘Ramu ki AAG’.Let us look back into his works ,as i hail from Hyderabad i had the opportunity to watch his works from the very beginning of his career.

SHIVA(1989):
Ramu Gopal Verma made his debut with SHIVA.It was the time when TOLLYWOOD(Telugu Film Industry) was fully loaded with masala and entertaining films with big figures like Chiranjeevi,Balakrishna were ruling the Tollywood then comes a young talented guy with a powerful script based upon Student Politics and Rowdyism.The simple …


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