Goa, India — Vidhu Vinod Chopra, writer and producer of global hit “3 Idiots,” and arguably India’s most successful film maker, remains something of an angry young man.
“One of the reasons I became successful, was because I struggled so much with ‘Khamosh’,” he said, describing his 1985 film which has since become a classic, but which he had to self-release after being rejected by distributors.
Chopra was speaking Sunday during the Film Bazaar in Goa in a master class where he was interviewed by fellow film maker Sudhir Mishra.
Despite having promised not to, Chopra peppered his discourse with choice swearwords in English and Hindi, as he took sideswipes at film festivals (“I’m not a festivals kind of man”), digital cinema (“a little bit of laziness has crept in”) and a string of named and unnamed distributors and producers.
Despite also calling himself “not a likeable person,” and saying that...
“One of the reasons I became successful, was because I struggled so much with ‘Khamosh’,” he said, describing his 1985 film which has since become a classic, but which he had to self-release after being rejected by distributors.
Chopra was speaking Sunday during the Film Bazaar in Goa in a master class where he was interviewed by fellow film maker Sudhir Mishra.
Despite having promised not to, Chopra peppered his discourse with choice swearwords in English and Hindi, as he took sideswipes at film festivals (“I’m not a festivals kind of man”), digital cinema (“a little bit of laziness has crept in”) and a string of named and unnamed distributors and producers.
Despite also calling himself “not a likeable person,” and saying that...
- 11/23/2014
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety - Film News
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