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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 …

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 …

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Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Where the maverick filmmaker goes wrong OR Am I confused ?
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Now nobody can ignore the contribution of Vidhu Vinod Chopra in bringing quality cinema to India after a decade of qualitative and creative block. He was one of the first few directors who dared to be different in that existing era of commercialization. He is over-confident, self obsessed but at the same time he is highly talented. The aesthetical and technical sense of this director is considered to be one of the finest in today�s time.

Starting with Murder at the Monkey Hill, his diploma film at FTII, it promised us an intelligent filmmaker in making. The film was a satirical pop up …