While making Bombay Talkies with three other directors, Dibakar Bannerjee has gone through the most fun experience of his life and he dreads leaving it behind.
‘When again would I get the chance to work so closely with three of my friends Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar,’ asked the successful auteur. Bombay Talkies is an anthology film consisting of four short films released 3 May. ‘We were constantly in each other's space enjoying each other's works more than our own. Not only did we make these four films together we also promoted and marketed the finished product together. There was no sense of competition, only deep kinship,’ Bannerjee said.
Tell him that his film has been most deeply appreciated of the films comprising Bombay Talkies and Bannerjee brushes off the compliment, saying: ‘I am too close to my own work to judge its value’.
‘But my favourite film of the omnibus is Karan Johar's. Not only has he yanked himself out of his comfort zone he has made sure that he hasn't compromised on the telling of his story. I've seen the response to the gay kiss in his film. There's pin-drop silence. The audiences are stunned,’ the director said.
About the presence of an emu as a pivotal character in his film Bannerjee laughs and says: ‘That was an idea given to me by two documentary filmmakers who helped me with the film.’
‘You see, emu farming was a major enterprise in innumerable households across Maharashtra and other states some four to five years ago. It ruined so many families. The emu in Nawazuddin's home is symbolical of his wasted life.
‘When again would I get the chance to work so closely with three of my friends Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar,’ asked the successful auteur. Bombay Talkies is an anthology film consisting of four short films released 3 May. ‘We were constantly in each other's space enjoying each other's works more than our own. Not only did we make these four films together we also promoted and marketed the finished product together. There was no sense of competition, only deep kinship,’ Bannerjee said.
Tell him that his film has been most deeply appreciated of the films comprising Bombay Talkies and Bannerjee brushes off the compliment, saying: ‘I am too close to my own work to judge its value’.
‘But my favourite film of the omnibus is Karan Johar's. Not only has he yanked himself out of his comfort zone he has made sure that he hasn't compromised on the telling of his story. I've seen the response to the gay kiss in his film. There's pin-drop silence. The audiences are stunned,’ the director said.
About the presence of an emu as a pivotal character in his film Bannerjee laughs and says: ‘That was an idea given to me by two documentary filmmakers who helped me with the film.’
‘You see, emu farming was a major enterprise in innumerable households across Maharashtra and other states some four to five years ago. It ruined so many families. The emu in Nawazuddin's home is symbolical of his wasted life.