Anurag Kashyap takes Danny Boyle’s help

Anurag Kashyap's dilemma: 'show' drug use in his next, Dev D without really showing it (he doesn't want to) ; takes Danny Boyle's help

Anurag Kashyap takes Danny Boyle's help

Anurag Kashyap's dilemma: 'show' drug use in his next, Dev D without really showing it (he doesn't want to) ; takes Danny Boyle's help

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle helped clear Anurag Kashyap's doubts about a scene in his upcoming film, Dev D.

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Camera tricks

When quizzed how the British director helped him, Anurag shrugs, "I was shooting in London, and we needed some kind of help. I knew Danny, so I called him.

On learning that I was in his city, he invited me to lunch. Abhay Deol, my cameraman and I went to meet him. I discussed the scene and asked him if there is a way I could make my camera trip rather than the actor.u00a0

Danny suggested this camera he had used to shot Slumdog Millionaire, which shoots up to 11 frames per seconds. He told me he got it from Holland and so we ordered one and we experimented with it."

When asked why he didn't want to show drugs in the film he explains, "The same reason I didn't want to show violence in my earlier movie. Like in Paanch, the entire violence was off screen and it was so powerful.
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Everyone believed it was on screen, which it wasn't. I don't think I am making a porn movie. I am not trying to show t**s and a**.

The film when it deals with sex has it in conversation and it comes across much more strongly than when I show a couple having sex.

This is also the reason why it took a long time to find a producer for this project because they were like 'the film is dealing with sex, so why aren't you showing it?' "

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About Danny's film, Anurag says, "I love Slumdog.u00a0 The best thing about the movie is that it is shot in India. A lot of people complain that this film is about poverty and all that, but it is not it's a film about hope.

80% of India is that. Our Indian films are not about India. So when people complain that if an Indian maker would have made Slumdog, it wouldn't have made it to the Oscar, of course it wouldn't have, because the Indian distributor would not have thought much of it to release it abroad.

So obviously, it took an outsider to come in and make that film in India, so it can be showcased abroad. So the people who are complaining are just crying about the sour grapes.

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