I now operate from a footpath - Ramu

  • IndiaGlitz, [Thursday,October 30 2008]

1. How true is that post Aag you went bankrupt and shifted from your office to a dilapidated building?
Ans: Not true. Actually I have shifted to under a tree and I now operate from a footpath.

2. What on earth were you thinking when you made Naach?
Ans: Thinking?

3. Who really manages your blog?
Ans: My ghost.

4. Stop reacting and start responding.
Ans:

5. Why don’t you make a film as big as Shankar’s film?
Ans: Why don’t you just go and watch Shankar’s film?

6. You will die alone.
Ans: I will prefer that to your company.

7. Do you decide to go on a floor on instinct or logic or something else?
Ans: Instinct and logic and something else.

8. Did your engineering degree help you in filmmaking or is it just Ayan Rand?
Ans: Ayan Rand among plenty others and also plenty other things but definitely not my degree.

9. Why does Swami in Sarkar have more brains than Rashid?
Ans: The same reason why I have better than yours.

10. Why didn’t you give another chance to Saurabh Narang of Vastu Shastra?
Ans: I don’t give chances. I take chances. I took mine. He does not want to take his.

11. How much of technical knowledge do you need to understand cinema?
Ans: None.

12. ………in that sense you wasted Amitji in Aag.
Ans: I accept.

13. Thanks in advance for reading.
Ans: I agree with several of your points.

14. You are one of my favourite directors.
Ans: Please don’t tell the names of the others and spoil it for me.

15. Meeting you is in my control. Not yours.
Ans: Superb.

16. Nishabd’s scene of Jiah being drenched was better than in Adrian Lyne’s “Lolita”
Ans: I disagree. Nobody can shoot a woman better than Adrian Lyne. Just check the introduction of Dominique Swain in “Lolita”.

17. If there was no Fountainhead would there be “Naach”?
Ans: No.

18. Was the blog on Amitji to butter him?
Ans: You are free to believe whatever will butter your happiness.