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 …

Prakash Jha : Hrishikesh Mukharjee cried after watching my film

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 …