The Dreamcatcher

With him around education takes a different meaning altogether.

Forget everything else,just follow your dream,filmmaker Anurag Kashyap tells little kids

With him around education takes a different meaning altogether. It becomes more interactive,less frightening,and suddenly,you spot little hands shooting up with enthusiasm. There are questions which means theres an interest which further translates into a mind thats started to thinking. Make that out of the box, filmmaker,writer and producer Anurag Kashyap is quick to put children at Dikshant International School at ease. We must do what we are happy doing and work hard to achieve what we want to do, says the man who has always followed his heart,something which he wishes everyone has the guts to. When I realised that I wanted to make films,my father gave me 5,000 bucks and wished me all the best. It was 1991,and there I was in Mumbai,struggling,scraping to make ends meet,sleeping on the streets and using 5-star hotel washrooms! Kashyap recounts the hard life,a prelude to his success. Thats because I chose to follow my dream. You have to ignore peer pressure or parental obligations,it is important to do what you want, he adds. On filmmaking as a career,Kashyap feels that all it needs is an open mind,one thats creative and receptive,and a mobile to capture the composition! You dont need any courses or degrees…life is your school of learning!

His happiest moment was when his father held the premiere of his film back home in Benaras,and the most emotional one was the birth of his daughter. All set to release his next,this one took exactly 13 days and brand new never used before camera to shoot the film. Its called That Girl in Yellow Boots, Anurags created a record by shooting the film on the latest Canon 7D digital and in flat 13 days! And heres his side of the story from his blog,passionforcinema.com – I was in the Jury of Venice and met a lot of filmmakers,saw a lot of films that shamed me,inspired me,challenged me and I realized that I havent shot anything in more than a year. I needed to make a film, so he narrated an idea to Kalki,whose playwriting skills are fantastic enough to win her an award. She wrote random scenes…I rewrote it,and there it was,The Girl in Yellow Boots,a thriller which features Kalki, Prashant Prakash,Gulshan Devaiyah,Pooja Swaroop,Kumud Mishra,Shiv Subramanyam,Divya Jagdale,Thani and Naseeruddin Shah,and has music by debutante Naren Chandavarkar. Apart from this,he has a nine film deal with UTV and is producing Vikram Motwanis Udaan,and directing a comedy Ramleela. As for Bombay Velvet,it will take time.

Further,topical questions revolving around Raj Thackeray made Anurag react fast: Well,his activities keep him in news and thats his job,his existence. I personally hate interference of any such kind .

The discussion also had N.K.Tewari,Director -The Scindia School Gwalior. Mitul Dikshit,Director of the school added,It was a great opportunity for all of us to have Anurag and Tewari speak to the children and answer all our queries.

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