Why does the sight of a beautiful woman wearing a white saree and singing a song always look scary in a horror film?
A danger arising from presumed innocence and beauty always creates terror in cinema mainly because of the unexpectedness. That’s the reason most horror films feature women and children as ghosts. A male ghost is very rare.
Don’t you think the world will be a dangerous place if people don’t believe in religion and run after wine and women?
If that’s how you feel then you should join an Osho Ashram where you can have all three. As for me, I like to live life dangerously.
I see contradictions in you...
Oh boy! Somebody has woken up ... Ek coffee laana please?
Can you explain the relationship between a film and its director?
To start with, a film is nothing but a medium which amalgamates various art forms into a coherent whole through one person’s consciousness and that person is the director.
Through the whole process he intends to create an emotion in the viewer. The director is also the link between the performing arts such as actors and the primary arts such as writing, music etc. For the director, the actors and technicians are a necessary means to an end.
So in spite of him not being a primary artist by definition, he is the one who channelises them in a certain direction and that’s why he is rightfully called a “director”. But to be able to do this, if not a complete understanding of the arts, the least he should possess is a clarity in his head about why he likes or dislikes certain aspects of art.
This will trigger his own creativity. A badly directed film will just make the actors and technicians go through an exhibition of their individual arts without a way forward in terms of intensity and a singularity backing them towards a specific destination. And then it will obviously result in a clash of their individual creative outputs. This will in turn result in the film getting infected with a disease called the “multiplicity of objectives”.
That’s the reason why I often say that all my good films are a result of many creative peoples’ contributions because without their contributions my direction means nothing. But my bad films belong to me alone because I misdirected their wonderful contributions.
Have you ever donated blood?
Forget blood, I won’t even donate sweat and I am also very scared of injections.
What are your thoughts on Satyajit Ray’s films?
Haven’t seen any.
You say you don’t care about being loved by anybody but what if your mother too thought like that?
Just because my mother was stupid enough to love me I don’t need to be stupid too to continue with the legacy of expectations from loved ones and the consequent disappointments.
After Shiva I think you have become a useless director. Bye. Bye.