Take 5: Anurag Kashyap And Sriram Raghavan

Twenty-Five years ago, a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, Sriram Raghavan, made a video docu-drama, Raman Raghav: A City, A Killer, meant for a VHS audience. It was on a serial killer who stalked the streets of Mumbai in the 1960s and killed 40-odd people by bashing their heads in. The video was never released as the series of crime stories it was a part of was scrapped. Anurag Kashyap, who worked on a film on another serial killer, Auto Narayan, for the same series, watched the film and has been fascinated with the killer ever since. A contemporary take on the killer, Raman Raghav 2.0, directed by him, releases on June 24 after a Cannes premiere last month.