Director’s Master Class
The last leg of the evening at London Asian Film Festival
had started with cheers for Farah Khan, the director (Mai Hoon Na, Om Shanti
Om, and Happy New Year), actor, choreographer and proud mother of triplets (Om,
Shanti and OM-Bollywood way of naming her triplets).
She was back here after conducting Choreography master class
session on Saturday (21st Mar). This session was conducted by Gareth Jones, producer of The Mughals. She
was grilled with questions about her journey, inspiration, hurdles and
functioning of Bollywood. Some of the interesting excerpts of the evening are
here.
·
Her first movie with Shahrukh, Mai Hoon Na took
three years before it became a reality.
·
She is pretty strict on sets but serves sumptuous
food, which is her weakness.
·
She said Shahrukh deserves the moolah since he
has the stamina to raise 250 Cr business on a good movie.
·
She can’t work on scripts which does not include
Bollywood and Shahrukh.
·
To my questions she had responded that the
script finalization is the toughest phase of film making process and Bollywood remakes
of south Indian movies are now the thing of past.
·
She had suggested an amateurish screenplay writer
to join a film school and learn by watching movies.
·
When this guy from Patna requested her to vet
his script, she said it is taxing and she can’t take the responsibility,
however she asked to share the synopsis to have a quick view.
·
Mr. Raj was assured to be cast in her next film,
if it is shot in London.
She was very candid at the questions thrown upon here by the
host and guests. She even obliged to have selfie session with most of us post
the session along with tips to take selfies.
She is ditto like her movies, chirpy, bubbly and dramatic.
All the best Farah ji!
…Venky
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