Anurag Basu talks about Jagga Jasoos and Kishore Kumar biopic

The very talented Anurag Basu whose last film the highly acclaimed and successful Barfi came two years ago, won't have any release this year.

In a candid conversation Anurag clarifies that the film won't release before mid 2015 as shooting of Jagga Jasoos has been at a slackened pace.

Says Anurag, "Jagga Jasoos was planned as a quickie. But Ranbir Kapoor (who is the film's co-producer) has been shooting simultaneously for Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet. We've to shoot Jagga Jasoos during the gaps in the shooting of Bombay Velvet. We completed one schedule. Now we'll go into a lengthy schedule from August. By the end of the year the shooting would be complete."

It's interesting that Anurag admits to shooting Jagga Jasoos in-between the schedules for Bombay Velvet.Barfi had been delayed because it was shot in the spaces provided during the shooting of Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar.

Anurag defends the delays, "Whether it's Imtiaz during Barfi or Anurag Kashyap during Jagga Jasoos, they are both friends. And besides it's all Ranbir's projects, so there is no question of prioritizing wrongly."

Next, Anurag Basu goes into his Kishore Kumar bio-pic.

Basu says he is definitely committed to making that film. "Ranbir and I are certainly doing Kishore. We'd have gone into it right after Barfi. But then Ranbir got committed to Bombay Velvet. So I decided to make Jagga Jasoos first. Kishore can't be made in breaks and spurts. It has to be done in one long stretch."

As for the bio-pic on mathematician Anand Kumar, Anurag throws the ball in Kumar's court. "He is keen, so am I. Anand is in touch with my wife. But where are the papers? He hasn't signed any contract or legal papers. Unless he gives us official and legal consent to make a film on his life we aren't going ahead with it. Making bio-pics in India without all the necessary papers is very risky."