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Have you ever woken up, from a deep slumber at the dead of the night, thanks to sound of the whistle or the “thak, thak” of the wooden stick of the locality / housing society guard? This was the topic Jaideep Varma dealt with in one of his write ups for a well-known English magazine some years ago. And in it lay the germ of an idea for a film, a film for which – in his own words – he had approached “20-25” producers, all unsuccessfully. That was the reason it took him several years to make Hulla (Uproar). The producers rejected his idea because some of them found it “flippant, too small a subject”, some wanted a star to be the protagonist, as against Jaideep’s choice of Sushant Singh in the role of a stockbroker who wants to sleep peacefully at night, and some said it the end …