This almost-scientist put his mind into making movies with budgets lesser than some big-budget songs. He returned with his film Kennedy at #Cannes2023.
. Who is he?
. Who is he?
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00:00My films don't touch anybody's hearts.
00:21I like to stab people's hearts.
00:51I like to make people uncomfortable.
01:13That's the reason why I wanted to make movies.
01:21That was also the time when there were no studios.
01:30Cinema was controlled mostly by a few film families.
01:33And if you're not one of those film families, you could not get in.
01:51I did not ask for credit, I did not ask for money.
02:02And I became that guy who does not ask for money, nor does he ask for credit.
02:29I don't want to be one of those cogs in a wheel, which keeps moving as it goes.
02:42But I have a condition.
02:43I said, what condition?
02:44I said, your office shuts down, I want you to bring the camera, we'll shoot with it,
02:49and we'll put it back in the morning.
02:58We went in there, we cleaned up 28 bags of pigeon shit, we scraped the place, we painted
03:16the place, we made it relivable, now it's a hotel.
03:42I was very opinionated, I was extremely judgmental of people, and I resented anyone who had
03:50anything that I felt I didn't have.
03:53Right, which was commercial success.
03:55Which was a real release.
04:12Now, Jaipur is a city which lit up for 10 days during Diwali.
04:19We traveled six Diwalis year after year, and 10 days we shot Gulal.
04:41I believe in certification, I don't believe in censorship.
05:04We had to find a quarry with a big mountain, find a time, what time it's going to blow up.
05:09The cost of that shot is probably, I don't know how, 5 crores, 6 crores, whatever that
05:13mountain would cost, which we got for 5,000 bucks.
05:15So we sat there and we waited for the mountain to blow up and take the shot.
05:27We collectively lost, I think, the highest amount of money anybody lost in one year without
05:31ever having that kind of money.
05:39The government's only ambition is to win elections.
05:43It only works for itself, it doesn't work for the people.
05:46When the government opens its mouth, it lies.
05:56If you laugh, even that won't be funny.
06:09What?