00:00I would like to tell you that I started this effort in 2009-2010
00:12I had to make some films to enter the film industry
00:17Which we call mainstream
00:20My first film was Dil Wil Pyaar Pyaar
00:23As a director, I made a film called Ghungad Ke Pat Khol
00:28Which premiered in Doordarshan
00:31It was a television film but it was for an Australian company
00:34But my first film for big screen was Dil Wil Pyaar Pyaar
00:38In which we used RD Burman's songs
00:41It was my first experiment
00:43Even there I didn't do mainstream
00:45It was an experiment
00:47Or Dil Mange More which was Shahid Kapoor's second film
00:51Or Aksar which was a suspense film
00:53But later I felt that this is not my mojo
00:58This is not my space
01:01The works of international masters like Truffaut, Vaida, Bergman
01:09Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Arvind, Narod, Bhopal Krishna
01:18After seeing their works, I gave myself cinema education
01:23So I felt that I am not using this education
01:26I am going somewhere else
01:28So in 2009-10 I made a film Staying Alive
01:33Which was made in 30 lakhs
01:35With two characters
01:37Saurabh Shukla who played a gangster
01:40And I played a writer
01:42And a very interesting story was made
01:45The writer has had his third heart attack
01:48And is in the ICCU hospital
01:50And this gangster has had his first heart attack
01:53And he is on the second bed
01:55Now this gangster is scared of death
01:58And this man is laughing at death
02:00Because even after dying three times he didn't die
02:03So this exchange of life and death
02:07I started with that film
02:09After that I made Red Alert
02:11Which was on Naxals
02:13It was a true story about Sunil Shetty
02:16And there was a very important article in Hindustan Times
02:21An Andhra farmer who was trapped between Naxals
02:26And he was trapped between the police and Naxals
02:28He didn't know where to go
02:30That was a story
02:31After that I made Mee Sandhu Tai Sab Kaal
02:34Which won four national awards for that film
02:36That was also a true story
02:38Gaur Haridas was a freedom fighter
02:42He spent his entire childhood in freedom fighting
02:47With Gandhi ji
02:49And his entire life he fought for a freedom fighter certificate
02:53The same freedom fighter certificate
02:56Which helped him make the country free
03:00Then I made My Ghat
03:02Bittersweet
03:04Rough Book
03:06And Dr. Rakhma Bhai
03:09Who was India's first practicing doctor
03:11I made those films
03:13Then I made Story Teller
03:16And now Phule
03:18A story about Savitri Bhai and Jyoti Bhai Phule
03:20The film is ready
03:22Which will be released on 11th April
03:24On Jyoti Bhai Phule's birthday
03:26So if you see
03:28I made 14-15 films
03:30Which I can say
03:32That I am trying to change the film scape
03:37And I didn't get any help
03:41For every film I approached at least 10 producers
03:45Everyone liked it
03:47But no one made it
03:49No one dared to make it
03:52Because everyone was scared
03:54About the returns
03:57He makes films worth 2 crore, 3 crore, 5 crore, 8 crore
04:01We need a film worth 100 crore
04:03On which we make returns of 200 crore
04:05They don't see that
04:07If a film worth 100 crore has a loss of 50 crore
04:10And if a film worth 2 crore or 3 crore
04:13Has a loss of 3 crore
04:15Then it is a profit, a percentage
04:17That is a loss
04:19But when all my films were made
04:21All the money was recovered
04:23No one lost anything
04:25But
04:27But no one came to me saying yes
04:31So I always try to make such films
04:34Story teller must have gone to 10 producers
04:38The day Paresh ji heard the story
04:43He said yes
04:45But the funny thing was
04:47When I introduced producer no.1
04:51He said you are supporting this film
04:54It is a good thing
04:56Then producer no.2 came
04:58He took him
05:00Paresh ji said you are supporting this film
05:02It is a good thing
05:04If I bring 10 producers to you
05:06You will trust me
05:08You will think he is just faking it
05:10But he was standing with me
05:12He had the faith in the subject
05:14Actors have faith
05:16But producers don't
05:18So this is the scenario
05:20So I will always try to make such films
05:24Which will take Indian cinema to a world level
05:26Because the masters who did it
05:28They are no more
05:30Neither Ray nor Mrinal Singh
05:32Nor Ritwik Ghatak nor Tapan Sinha
05:34Adoor Gopal Krishnan
05:36Shahji Karun
05:38Harvindan
05:40Girish Kasrawali
05:42Shyam Benegal
05:44Govind Nailani
05:46Who are the masters left?
05:48No one
05:50So
05:52It is our responsibility
05:54To learn from those masters
05:56To be inspired
05:58To make such films
06:00Which gave world recognition
06:02To India
06:04We are making such films
06:06And taking it to international festivals
06:08And premiering it
06:10Saying this is Bollywood
06:12This is our song and dance culture
06:14This is our culture
06:16We are trying to brainwash the world
06:18That this is a very innovative
06:20Thing
06:22But
06:24That is not cinema
06:26You are selling circus
06:28In the name of cinema
06:30So where is the culture
06:32Where is the tradition
06:34Where is the literature
06:36You are not making that
06:38So I will try to make such films
06:40No matter what happens
06:42I am jobless
06:44I sit at home
06:46But I will not make formula films
06:48I will not make films
06:50I am not mainstream
06:52I want every film to be mainstream
06:54People should come and watch
06:56Because the success of a storyteller
06:58Has taught me a big lesson
07:06You have asked two questions
07:08The first question was
07:10Remakes
07:12People run towards south
07:14What is it
07:16At home
07:18We never do our work independently
07:20We want someone
07:22To come to the kitchen
07:24And make our food
07:26Someone to come and sweep
07:28We don't want to do anything
07:30That is the psychology
07:32Of our filmmakers
07:34If it is successful, take it
07:36Remake it
07:38Whatever is ready made
07:40You want everything ready made
07:42The mind here
07:44If you have the mind
07:46Then you don't want to use it
07:48Because when you use the mind
07:50There is a lot of pain
07:52Severe pain
07:54And you feel it is not happening
07:56And when you feel it is not happening
07:58That is the time
08:00When you have to let it happen
08:02So you don't want to try
08:04Or
08:06You don't have that ability
08:08Which is mostly the same
08:10You are not capable of
08:12You are not capable of
08:14As simple as that
08:16So, remakes
08:18Earlier we used to do
08:20Hollywood films remakes
08:22Because no one knew
08:24When Hollywood came and sat here
08:26And said
08:28Give us the license fees
08:30Then we started announcing
08:32Original remake
08:34Authorized remake
08:36Like you are making a very original film
08:38Like you have done a very big job
08:40Like you have done a very big job
08:42That this is an authorized remake
08:44Second
08:46Second question
08:48When you did it on biopics
08:50Biopics is a gimmick
08:54Because I
08:56Will make a biopic on a sports person
08:58I will make it on a runner
09:00I will make it on a boxer
09:02I will make it on a cricketer
09:04These are famous names
09:06Or I will make it on historical characters
09:08I will make it on this
09:10I will make it on that
09:12And people
09:14Will try to do this
09:16People used to say
09:18When we were kids
09:20Our parents used to say
09:22This has come
09:24Ramcharitramanasya
09:26Ramayan has come
09:28Let's go and see
09:30Because they wanted to show kids
09:32This is Ramayan, this is Mahabharat
09:34In the same way
09:36They think people will come and see
09:38Whatever it is
09:40They will accept and go
09:42But this is a complete con game
09:44Which is going on
09:46With a famous person
09:48You
09:50This Bollywood formula
09:52Or
09:54Bollywood is a word which I don't like
09:58Which is a
10:00Formula
10:02Which is a
10:04Masala
10:06Which is a
10:08You put it in it
10:10And
10:12You call it a biopic
10:14And you serve it to people
10:16This is like
10:18Chinese Dosa
10:20This Dosa
10:22That Dosa
10:24The pure Dosa
10:26Which is made with batter
10:28That is the original Dosa
10:30Now you put masala in it
10:32You put that in it
10:34So many Dosa's have come
10:36This is adulterated cinema
10:38Exaggerated
10:40Adulterated cinema
10:42It is not an honest
10:44Biopic
10:46For me this is
10:48A line of stone
10:50That if I
10:52Make a film on you
10:54I have to be honest to you
10:56To the subject
10:58By distorting you
11:00By exaggerating you
11:02By over the toping you
11:04I can't show you
11:06I am not making a documentary
11:08Which most people think
11:10When I made Mir Sindhu Tai Sabkaal
11:12Or Dr.Rakhmabai or Gaur Haridas
11:14This will be a documentary
11:16No
11:18There is so much drama in their life
11:20That if you
11:22Faithfully bring it on screen
11:24There can't be anything more dramatic
11:26On the contrary
11:28Mir Sindhu Tai Sabkaal's life
11:30Is so dramatic
11:32That I had to tone down a lot of things
11:34Which we are exaggerating here
11:36In some films
11:38That
11:40On the train
11:42Dupatta is running
11:44Our sprinter
11:46World class sprinter
11:48That
11:50Is not like that
11:52I had to tone down
11:54Otherwise people thought
11:56I am fooling people
11:58So
12:00They say fact is stranger than fiction
12:02Look at the facts
12:04It is dramatic enough
12:06And you should have the courage
12:08And honesty to depict it
12:10Yes
12:12You should have the ability
12:14To dramatize it
12:16Into a film
12:18How you visualize it into a film
12:20How do you write a screenplay out of it
12:22That is the trick
12:26I
12:28Won't call it a remake
12:30But it has an inspiration
12:32When you are making a film on Bhagat Singh
12:34And someone else
12:36Announced it
12:38I understand
12:40Because Bhagat Singh was a famous
12:42Patriot
12:44And many people
12:46Thought they will make it too
12:48When the story is
12:50That
12:52Two people get married
12:54In a village
12:56And they come to the station
12:58With their wives
13:00And there is a crowd
13:02And when the train comes
13:04They get on it
13:06And the wives exchange
13:08You don't know about it
13:10When you come to the city
13:12You get to know
13:14What happened
13:16Then you try to find your husband
13:18And wife
13:20Then
13:22You look at the photograph
13:24Of the marriage
13:26And how will you recognize her
13:28If you have
13:30Thought of all this
13:32Like I have
13:34Then you
13:36Are my mirror
13:38Or my duplicate
13:40Or
13:42You know
13:44Similar
13:46Creations
13:48It's too much of a coincidence
13:50And
13:52If you don't reach out
13:54And say
13:56We have actually thought of this
13:58And it has happened
14:00And it's a very interesting thing
14:02I would have accepted it
14:04But no one
14:06Was so courteous
14:08Why is Anand Mahadevan
14:10Saying that this film is a copy
14:12Come here
14:14Talk to me
14:16Either they think
14:18He is not an important person
14:20Why give him importance
14:22Or they think we will be proved wrong
14:24Half of the film is the same
14:26The rest
14:28Whatever we have done
14:30Anyone can do it
14:32Like a film was made
14:34My Sassy Girl
14:36My Sassy Girl
14:38I won't tell you
14:40Which film was made
14:42Length was so much
14:44If a Hindi film was made
14:46It can be made till interval
14:48So till interval
14:50It was My Sassy Girl
14:52After interval it was made
14:54In Punjab
14:56On lovers
14:58So it is a copy
15:00It is an inspiration
15:02So
15:04This is what we are doing
15:06I am not the type
15:08To raise the point
15:10I laugh it off
15:12Very good
15:14A very big producer
15:16And a very big director
15:18Thought that my film
15:20Is worth remaking
15:22Thank you very much
15:28I am making a documentary film
15:30And I had a co-producer
15:32In a Marathi film
15:34It's time to go
15:36Atta Bail Zali
15:38Dilip Prabhavalkar
15:40Rohini Hatangadi
15:42She is on a very unusual subject
15:44A couple
15:46Lives in Bombay
15:48They were very healthy
15:50And they told
15:52President
15:54Allow us to go
15:56We are a burden on the society
15:58We
16:00Don't want to take hospital beds
16:02So someone else
16:04Needs it
16:06So make a law
16:08Active euthanasia
16:10Mercy killing
16:12You are on a ventilator
16:14You have tubes
16:16Let it go
16:18But when I am healthy
16:20Why should I reach that level
16:22Where I have to take a bed
16:24And suffer
16:26So
16:28Make active euthanasia legal
16:30Although it can't be
16:32So that is the story
16:34Of this couple
16:36Now this type of story
16:38When I
16:40Showed it to a lot of people
16:42A test audience
16:44Some young people
16:46Said yes
16:48I didn't think
16:50I was forced to think
16:52And the distributors
16:54Were afraid
16:56This is a film on death
16:58This won't work
17:00So this is the reading
17:02Of the audience
17:04Those who claim
17:06They don't know anything
17:08Because
17:10I have
17:12Absolutely on hand experience
17:14By asking people
17:16And how they react
17:18But they don't listen
17:20So this is the difficulty
17:22We have as a filmmaker
17:24There are a lot of challenges
17:26Like I said
17:28There will be a lot of challenges
17:30Because people don't understand
17:32What type of film I am making
17:34How to make it
17:36And the people who came
17:38To the 15th film
17:40The people who came
17:42They don't know
17:44How to distribute
17:46I did support
17:48Monitoring
17:50But the film doesn't distribute
17:52So that is that
17:54And of course
17:56I think that
17:58If the subject is that good
18:00Like I went to Paresh ji
18:02And told him
18:04No one can say no
18:06If in the future
18:08If I take something
18:10Worthy of Shah Rukh
18:12If I take something
18:14That I know he can't say no
18:16I will take something
18:18Of that level
18:20I won't just go
18:22To work with him
18:24To sign him
18:26I will go and tell him
18:28That this is it
18:30He should say no
18:32And it should be such a good story
18:34Such a good concept
18:36That he won't say no
18:38So that is a challenge for me
18:40I am not worried about whether an actor will do my film
18:42Or not do my film
18:44I am worried about whether I am good enough
18:46For that actor
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