Filmmaking went into its shell in eighties and nothing progressive was happening in Mainstream cinema. Parallel cinema on the other hand was able to retain its dignity but their reach was scant. While cinema across the world was evolving different ways to narration, story telling, special effects and characterisation, Bollywood was feasting on cliched formulas. Worst thing was that this was wrongly portrayed as personality of Bollywood.
In last 15 years, many movies came and brought in influences of European and American cinema, dumped the cliches and stressed on innovations. Bollywood started learning. Realism evolved in Mainstream Cinema. Characters were no longer extra-ordinary human beings, they were one among us, simple and fragile. Though mass movie kept on raking gold, new/alternate/parallel/indie cinema started getting its due. Among many faces, two people made themselves pretty recognisable - Ram Gopal Varma and Anurag Kashyap.
In this Director Special Edition, we decided to talk about these two goodfellas who influenced Indian cinema in last two decades more than any one. Waiting for your comments...
Greetings,
Sujoy Ghosh
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