He is good with music, action, sound, just about everything. Dharmesh is very talented and very hard-working. If ever I was late on his sets, I had to give him a solid reason for it. But that apart, he has some really good qualities - he is disciplined, he comes on the sets on time and expects his artistes to do the same. Tell us something about Dharmesh Darshan with whom you have worked for the first time in RAJA HINDUSTANI.ĭharmesh Darshan is a very good friend of mine. I’ve enjoyed working with Indu, Raj Santoshi, Dharmesh and Mansoor Khan.
What are the things that inspire or charge you?Ī good director charges me. I should have been born in the ‘fifties or ‘sixties when films used to be made the way I like. Yes, but I definitely feel that I’ve been born at the wrong time. What I am doing will surely contribute something to the industry, not take away anything from it. In the current scheme of things, where artistes and technicians give dates by the hours, don’t you feel like fish out of water? In the Mahabharat, when Arjun is asked to shoot the eye of the fish, his concentration is cent per cent on the eye. I’ve read the Mahabharat and am greatly influenced by it. I like to concentrate on the films I am working in, and I don’t like my attention to be divided on a script narration of a film which I have decided, I will not be signing till my earlier lot is nearing completion. I explain that to producers who approach me and I tell them, whenever I am ready to sign a new film, we would get back to them. When I don’t want to sign a film, I don’t listen to scripts because there’s no sense in that. I either call back personally or have my secretary convey my reply. (Gets up to show it.) See, every telephone message is noted down for me. You must have a look at my message diary. I don’t know how you have got this feedback. There’s a general impression that you don’t give proper response to producers who approach you for signing you. A director should make what he feels strongly about. Romance excites me, powerful social themes also excite me. Since direction is not on my mind for the present, I haven’t thought so seriously about it. What kind of films would you like to make? When I do direct a film, I won’t be acting, at least not during the period my film is on the floors.
I feel, I’ve still got to prove a lot and learn a lot. I will definitely turn a director but not for three more years, at least, because I’m committed to my acting assignments. When I do a job, it is important that I must have the satisfaction of doing it well. Distribution is not an easy job, it also requires total involvement and devotion. And when I do get down to working, I get involved completely. Otherwise, I can’t think of having a full-fledged office because I’m one-track minded. The Morani brothers and Raj Santoshi are my friends and secondly, Damini was a good social film which I was backing from outside. I was a partner in the Bombay distribution of Damini but that was for different reasons. When you are so business-minded, how is it that you haven’t started a distribution office like some of the other artistes?
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