So far we’ve always considered Indian cinema as being a spinoff of its western counterparts.
So to listen to that certainly one of American cinema’s most influential directors, Quentin Tarantino, director of flicks like Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds, has admitted in a talk with certainly one of our own directors, Anurag Kashyap, that a whole sequence in a single of his films is encouraged by an Indian film, came as an enormous and a welcome surprise.
When contacted, Kashyap says, “Yes, Sight and Sound critic Naman Ramchandran first told me this. So once I met Quentin in Venice I asked him whether the Manga sequence in Kill Bill was inspired from an Indian film and he excitedly remarked, ‘Yes, I saw this Indian serial-killer film which showed violence as animated.’”
Kashyap explains, “There is just one Indian serial-killer film which was made before Kill Bill where violence was animated, and that was Abhay.” Kamal Haasan, who starred in Abhay, has his own tackle the compliment.
“When I did the animation action sequence 12 years ago it was seen as self-indulgent and odd by lots of people. Now that it's been endorsed by a filmmaker of such brilliance, critics may be kinder to a few of the things I attempt in my films.”
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
