Popular filmmaker Neeraj Pandey is currently riding high on the success of his recent web show 'Khakee: The Bihar Chapter'. Neeraj has previously delievered amazing projects like 'Special Ops', 'MS Dhoni', 'Baby', 'A Wednesday' etc to name a few and this suggests that he has an innate sense for choosing the right story for his movies/shows. In a recent media interaction, Neeraj shared how he locks on to a particular story before starting production.

The filmmaker told IANS, "We first narrow down to a good idea and a story. It begins with a good idea then the story comes into existence and then we kind of work our way around with the different genres. We have chased a lot of stories from different genres, even the ones you mentioned but they somehow didn’t work out."

Talking about his frequent collaborations with Manoj Bajpayee, Neeraj said, “Manoj is a good artiste to begin with. I admired him as an actor and eventually we ended up meeting for work,” the film turned out to be ‘Special 26’ and “there has been no looking back since then. He gets me easily and I also find it comfortable to work with him, you can say we share a common creative wavelength. That saves a lot of time."

He concluded, “Also, I feel that the audience wants to see something new, and what better example than a film like ‘Kantara’. It’s our duty as creators to make something new for the audience.”