Bansali is scratching his head inside a bar in Bombay
Bhansali: Oh god only you know besides me that I can not make anything original. Every time I have to look for inspirations. Tell me where I can get inspiration this time.
Waiter: Sir, We have a genuine Russian Vodka on sale for this evening, would you like to try?
Bhansali: Man you made my day! I am going to get my inspiration from a Russian this time.
Scene 2
Bhansali inside Sony Pictures office
Bhansali : Sir I need shi_t load of money from you to make my film.
Sony executive : Who the hell are you?
Bhansali: Sir I am Bhansali from Bollywood. Last night I got an inspiration inside a bar and I want to make a movie now. I am famous director and with my movie Devdas I screwed up a great Indian classic, I have had French and other ventures like this as well.
Sony executive: Well, Mr. Bhansali this is not a way to ask money from a company famous in Hollywood. Where is your story/script etc etc.
Bhansali: Sir that is not a big deal at all. After I got high with Russian Vodka, I asked Prakash Kapadia to come to my house with some Russian literature. We added all the typical bollywood crap to that piece of literature and murdered it.
Sony executive: Tell me how you will spend all the money?
Bhansali: Sir first of all I will build the most expensive, gigantic and never before set with all that money.
Sony executive: Just the set! What about rest of the movie?
Shekar Kapur lives a lot on Hype.But his film achievments are few.His filmography doesnt exceed even half-a-dozen films and yet,he is regarded one of the brilliant film-makers. Brilliant,he may be,but he should do more work for anyone to analyze his graph.All he does is announcing projects,creating hype,writing a lot about it,getting them into publicity designs and finally abandoning.The website of his film 'Water' has been created even before he wrote the script(did he??).Why?It shows the hype.and look at the list of his abandoned projects: A long walk to freedom(on Nelson Mandela),Tara Rum pum pum(supposedly preity zinta's launch vehicle,A.R.Rahman recorded 4 songs),Time Machine,One untitled project for India Talkies(the production house formed by Maniratnam,RamGopal Varma & Kapur, they produced Dil Se), Buddha(design sketches were also done,before the script).He also started some comics/animations based on Indian Epics,collaborating with Deepak Chopra.What happened to all these projects??I dont know if he would make Water,but any film-maker,even legends dont take an eternity to create hype and make a film.hrishikesh Mukherjee made several good films,without any hype, potraying brilliant ideas.Kapur toys with 1 idea, intending to make it as a classic and finally calls it off, rambling about the ceasing creativity etc.
Kapoor should start working on good & original story idea and more experimental narrative structures. For last 5 years He seems to be caught up with the queens and old British era only!!!
i hope that shekhar completes his project water and not abandon it liike his earlier project time machine with aamir khan. also i wish that he cast ompuri,naseeruddin shah etc. in water as they are worlkd class actors ,ironically they dont get to do challenging roles in bollywood movies
I dont know why Shekar Karoor is so obsessed with western style. There are so many topics in India he can easily make movies on. Even worthy of an oscar award if made that way. Come on Shekar ... dont dream of a Richar Attenborough . First be an Indian Genious
RE:Kapor elebezeth etc.
by Chaitanya on Nov 02, 2007 01:48 AM
Common man don't show your typical Indian metatility of pulling legs .. Let him do what ever he wants to do .. is he asking you for something ?
RE:Kapor elebezeth etc.
by Ramnarayan R on Nov 02, 2007 02:37 AM
Uncommon man elite,your considered nothing but a dog in britian. I think people like shekar has a borrowed colonial hangover and crazy self obsessed narcissist making movies about a queen who had no human regard for the race he comes from.
I have seen Shekhar Kapoor's Elizabeth and must confess he has sculptured the movie with finesse and a perfectionist. For a moment I forgot that I was in a movie theatre but felt that I was really observing the Monarch herself in real life. I liked the way he has used natural light when she was in burrows.........that is the impact he has with his work he is in par with Satyajit Ray in film making..........I have no doubt that this work of his will be even superior......... Mr Shekhar Kapoor we are proud of you as an Indian, "directors will come and directors will go but SHEKHAR KAPOOR WILL REMAIN AND GO ON FOREVER............."
RE:Kapoor a director par excellence
by Arijit Biswas on Nov 01, 2007 06:15 PM
are you crazty when u compare shekhar kapoor with satyajit ray, do u even understand the subtlety with which ray made movies and his movies never were genre based rather curiosity arousing and were based on very simple story telling. Shekhar kapur is a highly stylized director, talented no doubt but comes nowwhere near satyajit ray as far as theme conceptualisation and economical handling of resources. He is very exaggerated in his theme and concept(not necessarily a bad thing) and although i know its a directors medium but as far as the frst elizabeth is concerned kate blanchetts brilliant portrayal far dominated his directorial effort and made the movie eminently watchable. you will never see a ray film where the actor dominates the medium rather his actors grow with the medium giving a unhaurried crafty exquisite and almost perfect life like look to his film. to put is crudely shekhar kapur maybe a mathew hayden, ray was vivian richards absolute(xcuse my spellings hurriedly wrtn).
RE:Kapoor a director par excellence
by jaydeep mukherjee on Nov 02, 2007 06:46 AM
If Ray had the lavish budget like Kapoor, he probably would have captured much wider audiences. Ray was original. Kapoor doesn't even try to be one. Ray was versatile. Kapoor is just a good director. Ray's film spoke human language. Kapoor camouflages his conceptual limitation under technical sparkle. All said and done, Kapoor should start working on good & original story idea and more experimental narrative structures. For last 5 years He seems to be caught up with the queens and old British era only!!!
RE:Kapoor a director par excellence
by Bongla on Nov 02, 2007 08:34 AM
arey gohil kaka tune bengaliyo ki dukhti rug per haath rakh diya aisa lagta hai.
By the way do these bengalis know any other director than Ray. They r talking as if Ray is the only one in world. every director has his style why is Jaydeep trying to compare neck to neck huh.
Ray has made few IDIOT movies earlier in his career.
I am not a fan of shekhar kapoor. He is an A-hole obsessed with Britishers. no one knows him in hollywood may be few B grade artists.
RE:Kapoor a director par excellence
by on Nov 12, 2007 09:52 AM
Hey Bongla, what you just wrote here, one thing is certain that you have no knowledge or sense of cinema! What is even more certain is that you have never heard names of Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen, besides a range of other talented Bengali filmmakers like Tapan Sinha, Aparna Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Gautam Ghose and Budhdhadeb Dasgupta, all who had made seminal contributions to Indian cinema.
And I am equally certain that you have never heard of Akira Kurosawa, who once said of Satyajit Ray, "Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon."
Discussing about any great filmmaker and that too about one of the stature of Satyajit Ray necessitates deep understanding and appreciation of cinema; but what can you do%u2026.you are so grossly fed with the Bollywood nautankis for several years, that true cinematic masterpieces can never be appreciated by nerds like you!
And can you clarify which %u201CIDIOT%u201D movies of Ray you are referring too, that he made early in his career? Are you stating that Apu Trilogy, Jalsaghar, Devi, Teen Kanya, Mahanagar or Charulata are idiotic films? Are you out of your senses? Have you ever seen a single movie by Ray? Do one favor to this planet Earth..stop writing about films%u2026.or restrict your writings to the Bollywood junkies that you are more accustomed to!
