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  Did you expect BHEJA FRY to be such a big hit? I didn’t expect the I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
film to be such a big hit though I knew that people will like it. I was of the view that if the film Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
runs even for a week or two, it’ll be great. The only plan on my mind was that if I make a good I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
film, I will get a producer for my next film. I was of the view that if the film runs even If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
for a week or two, it’ll be great What do you think worked for the film? If you present comedy True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
in a new style, the audiences will definitely like it. Comedy is like a favorite dish. If you cook Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time’s arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one’s energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.
it properly with all the right ingredients, people will surely like it. It is said that BHEJA FRY is When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
inspired from a French film. How much did you take from that film? We took the concept of the “Life Diamond”. . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self…
character of “idiot” from the French film. We have also adapted the structure of the French Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
film. But we changed all the characters and tried to give them an Indian flavor. We also added two Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, “Be thou exalted,” and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.
songs in the film which the French film-maker would never do. Our production cost, however, was very Death followed by eternity . . . the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought
low compared to the French film. At the core of it, we studied the structure and the spirit of the America is a land of divine destiny. The almighty has every intention of keeping it so. But human blindness, human wickedness, human rebellion against God, can seriously interfere even with God’s plan.
French film and tried to get it in this film. When you adapt a film, you should pay respect to the When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
original by making the adaptation even better than the original. You should pay respect to Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking will never accomplish anything.
the original by making the adaptation even better than the original Vinay Pathak, Ranveer Doing beats stewing.
Shorey and Rajat Kapoor were seen in MIXED DOUBLES, the film for which you were the associate He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
director. Was it difficult to direct them in your first film? It was very easy actually. Rajat Happiness isn’t something you experience, it’s something you remember.
Kapoor was the associate producer for this film. The producer [Sunil Doshi] once asked Rajat, Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
“Will this boy be able to pull it off?” Rajat said he was extremely confident of my Unless a business can stay in the black over the long term, averaging the bad years with good, it cannot sustain itself. A manager may have laudable social intentions of providing security for his employees, better products at lower prices for his customers. But if he cannot keep the business going in realizing these intentions he is defeated before he begins.
abilities.Ranveer had become a good friend. So, he said ‘no matter what kind of role, just give it There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.
to me and I will do it’. Besides, I thought that the magic of the Ranveer-Vinay pair, which is This mortal probation is a brief period—just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.
famous on television, is not used in films yet, so I should recreate it in my film.Vinay Pathak is a The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.
fantastic actor and I was sure that he was going to play the lead role. I had seen Rajat and Vinay’s The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
combination on stage and I decided to get that in films.Milind Soman was present at the success The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not a sunburn — it is rust.
party of MIXED DOUBLES. When Sunil Doshi announced the film on the occasion, Milind said that he It is there all the time.
would want to be part of the film. For the role of Suman Rao, we wanted a fresh face and that’s when Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
Bhairavi came in. Sarika was a boon. In fact, Anurag Kashyap once said that he’d love to remake this We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.
[French] film. Then I informed him that I have already developed a screenplay on this. So he gave me Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.
some suggestions, one of which was to talk to Sarika for a role. She is back, looks stunning and was What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
our favorite since school days. I met her; she tried to understand the concept of the film and I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.
finally agreed. So, I had an unusual cast in hand and I knew that nothing could go wrong. I That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
had an unusual cast in hand and I knew that nothing could go wrong BHEJA FRY is an unusual Weeds Never Die.
title. How did you come up with it? There is a very interesting incident behind it. One fine day, It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
the producer called me up and asked if I had registered a title for the film. I had two titles in There is . . . but one categorical imperative: ‘Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.’
mind - DING DONG BABY SING A SONG and DAVAT-E-KHAAS, but people didn’t quite like it. I called up Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
the co-writer Arpita Chatterjee to give me a title urgently. She was pregnant back then and got Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.
frustrated with my pestering. She just blurted, ‘Don’t BHEJA FRY me now yaar’. Seconds later, she The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
jumped saying this was the title [BHEJA FRY]. She argued saying this man in the film Bheja Fries the Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ lang syne?
other. I was not so sure about it, but Arpita said to have it as the working title. The producer As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. —Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
also liked the title and it just caught on. Then I didn’t change it. You are also planning to direct The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
BHEJA FRY 2? Not right now, but yes, the film is on cards and I will do it later. That “idiot” Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. KJV
is a simple common man and this journey is going to move ahead. When a particular film succeeds, I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night.
people try to do something similar for their next film. Are you too planning something similar or Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
are you doing something ‘hatke’? This ‘hatke’ is a very scary term. But, yes, I want to try out The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
films from all genres. We chose comedy and saw to it how we can make the best of the films. Now, I The flower of one’s youth.
am working on a children’s film titled KACHA LIMBOO. After this I would want to do a love story, Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
then an adult film only for female audiences as I want to understand about women-related issues. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
I can handle 20-30 crores of rupees but not big stars You have signed a 3-film deal with Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.
Sahara. Well, yes. I met Mr. Roy, who heads the film division of Sahara. He is a very young producer I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
and is handling a very big empire. He asked me what my plans were. I said to him that we keep This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game
complaining about the quality of films in this country, but we don’t do anything about it. The same A tribute, published October 22, 1931, to Thomas Alva Edison upon his death: More than any other man, Mr. Edison lifted us out of the material surroundings of the Middle Ages. For most part, his inventions were spectacular in that they served to effect the emancipation of humanity and at the same time made possible mass production, greater factories, new and faster transportation methods, speedier distribution of commodities and a general increase in the happiness and higher standards of living for the peoples of the world. His inventions have provided employment directly for more than a million persons and many millions are employed because of their indirect benefits. It has been recorded that the investment value of all the undertakings rooted in his inventions equals the value of all the gold mined in the world since Columbus discovered America. Thomas A. Edison, whom we revered for his simplicity and his greatness, has passed on, but his name and his achievements remain to be magnified in the light of their untold benefits to future generations.
people then keep making similar kind of films, so when will the change happen? He then asked me what One country, one constitution, one destiny.
I wanted to make. I told him my plans, but then I also said that this will cost money. He suggested, I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
why one, why not three films? He also gave me the liberty to do these films over the next 2-3 years The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
and with the freedom to do films with somebody else in the meantime. Generally, after a big hit, The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
directors plan their next film with big stars. But your next film, KACHA LIMBOO does not have any The true heroic faith is that of him who, conscious of having calmly taken stock of the situation, and done everything that is humanly possible to ensure success, leaves the event to God, if he believes in God,—or to whatever may be his substitute for God.
stars. Why? I am still not ready to make a film with big stars. I can handle 20-30 crores of rupees, The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
but I can’t handle a big cast. I am not yet ready to create the kind of environment required for the The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.
stars. Besides, this film will focus on technique and story. If big stars come in, it would be I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won’t get worse.
impossible to shoot it on Mumbai streets. I will need to arrange for security and other facilities The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible of reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
and the flavor of the film will be lost in the process.  

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