Anurag Kashyap talks about LAK and Kaminey

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Three Filmmakers, three films..

Haven't written in a long time. Wasn't inspired enough by anything, so decided to take a break from the world and pour myself into writing. The bane of my writing career,"Gurudutt" has taken more than two years and is still not finished. A very complex life of an extremely complex man. How do you write a film on the man who stayed in the room and never talked much. Anyways this post is not about him. Neither is this about my unending struggle with "Bombay Velvet" . My first big budget film, a very scary thought. Until now i have always felt free to play around with themes and cinema because there never was much at stake. The first thing to do when you tackle big budgets? Simplify? Simplifications and explanations scare me. Anyways this post isn't about that either.

This post is about the three films, hindi films that i saw recently , that excited me. I say hindi because there are three marathi( Harishchandrachi Factory, Ghabricha Paus and Gandha) and one tamizh (Subramanyapuram) films that i completely fell for. A lot has been written about them. I will talk about the three films that really were fantastic and something to look forward to. Which one i write about first. On the basis of seniority of the filmmaker. Then let me begin with Pankaj Advani.

SANKAT CITY- Pankaj Advani is probably one filmmaker who has had worst luck than me. I first met him in 1994-95, he was the co-writer on "Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa". He was the one you had to go through to meet Kundan Shah. Him and Gurpaal ( who also acts as the Sikh taxi driver in the film) . Pankaj was our hero, his energy, his sense of humour , his restlessness. His first film "Sunday" , that we saw at Kundan's office years ago, his "Urff Professor" that we got to see on Zee(in their better days of television) and now in "Sankat City" you can see the impact Kundan's cult classic,"Jaane bhi do Yaaron" has had. Madcap zany comedy, social commentary and those noirish characters, dialogues. Scum of the earth populates his films. Sankat City is one such madcap zany film. So many characters, unaware of each other, money being the only degree of seperation between them. It is laugh out loud funny, completely over the top. A Dr. Rajkumar inspired Chunkey Pandey's superstar, to Anupam Kher's Faujdaar, who reminds you of his incredible, "Bhabhizee Bhabhizee Sweet Sweet Bhabhizee" act from "Hum". From a completely original, never before seen Kaykay( I have worked with him so long, i have never seen this side of him ever before i saw him here) to completely non-jaat , mellowed down Yashpaal Sharma. Each one is hilarious and so there. Will not want to reveal anything about the film, would just urge you to watch it.
Releasing July 10th

KAMINEY- Vishal Bharadwaj is in form and how. He completely reinvents himself with this one. He completely goes away from Maqbool and Omkaara and rediscovers the gangster genre. Story that takes place in a day, bengaali, marathi underworld that one has never seen before. He has sworn me to not reveal anything about the film and i can not, but after this film there will be a whole new list of favourite actors that everyone is going to make. So many return to acting with this one film, a cast of more than thirty actors. This is the biggy that will surprise you and his reinterpretation of that old R. D. Burman, classic from "Tee'''". I am not saying anything more.
Releasing August 14th

LOVE AAJ KAL- Imtiaz Ali goes urban with this one. It is more contemporary, more now and how the perception of love has changed but the dynamics don't. Today's relationships are more about convenience, but then what if you will never really find the one and worse if the one is the one that was inconvenient. How far would you go in love in today's time. Crossing the river on an earthen pot is more romantic, today the options are Practical vs emotional. I saw the first cut long time back and the rough cut on avid and it had me laughing through till it had me in tears in the end. Vintage Imtiaz of great small moments is intact and he goes further too this time.
Releasing July 31st

The first had me in splits, second had my adrenaline pumping, third one made me feel and cry without being overdramatic. Now the fourth and fifth film that i am looking forward to are Kites and Wake up Sid. First one because it is Anurag Basu and second because that's the script i read, haven't seen any of these as films so would not recommend them yet but am really waiting to see them . The script of "wake up sid" is the most awesome coming of age script i have ever read . Here is hoping they show it to me.

I am sorry for not revealing any story and plotpoints as i would not like anyone to do so to me. May be when i write A review after the release of these films. And also because i don't have the necessary permissions to do so. But watch them as I go back to my writing.