saadghauri

Hi sir, big fan of yours from Pakistan. Love all your movies, specially Gulaal. Gangs of Wasseypur is very well known here. I have 2 questions:

1) Have you heard Pakistani music? The music in Dev.D (for instance the rock version of emotional attyachaar) reminded of the style which is seen in Pakistani music often. Have you listened to Junoon? Or Vital Signs? Or Noori?

2) Why are the awards so wrong in India? I get that there need to be blockbuster entertaining movies but the awards should go to quality material. I remember Koi Milgaya (the alien film with Hrithik Roshan) won and Yuva by Mani Ratnam didn't. Is there any way to fix this? I was very surprised when Udaan won, how can the award ceremonies be fixed so they focus on quality (like they did with Udaan)?

Great to know you are a fan!

I want to fix it because, well, I think it creates a market hunger for quality. For instance, in Hollywood, every studio obviously wants to make money and thus releases big budget action movies. However because of the desire for Oscars the studios also create movies which may not be financially successful but might attract the attention of critics. If something similar existed in India I think we would see a lot more unique movies get funded.

I understand what you're saying but I think rebels would still be rebels no matter what. However it does make sense, I guess from your perspective, that you do not have to kiss anyone's ass and can just make any fucking thing you feel like without needing any validation...

I guess I'm just confused now.

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