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Vikramaditya Motwane explains how he went from being Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s assistant to planning his debut movie with Amitabh Bachchan within the lead.

Vikramaditya Motwane wished to make his first movie with Amitabh Bachchan on the age of 25

Vikramaditya Motwane made his directorial debut with Udaan (2010). However not many know that he wished to make a movie referred to as Bombay Talkies with Amitabh Bachchan as his debut directorial, on the age of 25. It’s about a terrific filmmaker making his return to the units after years. And what all had modified about Hindi cinema, together with stardom, within the interim. Bachchan was going to play this aged director — consider him as Hrishikesh Mukherjee, who was alive then, he says. 

Motwane discovered it not possible to solid a lead actor for this movie, which is why it by no means bought made. Till then, Motwane had extensively assisted Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Which, firstly, explains the entry to Bachchan. 

Bhansali and Motwane’s mom as soon as ran an promoting manufacturing home collectively. “I turned an assistant director to Sanjay once I was 20 years previous. I used to be thrown in on the deep finish with this man, the place you might be working 16 hours a day, 25 hours a day, no matter, it did not matter. He’s tremendous hardworking… It was stunning as movie faculty as a result of not solely are you immersed into the writing of it, and writing music sittings, artwork division… you might be doing all the things. After which within the taking pictures you might be additionally sitting with Sanjay and studying to kind of break down a scene, and what shot breakdown, is and why the digicam strikes when it strikes. I used to be a bit bit enamoured by the world of it, this world of filmmaking is so attention-grabbing and fairly,” Motwane elaborates throughout our Sit With Hitlist dialog.

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“The behind-the-scenes aesthetic of what a movie set appears like – it’s all the time beautiful. I believe that form of drove me. After I completed that, I met Bhavani Iyer after which I had this concept about this filmmaker form of making his final film and the explanations he has to do it. We wrote it and I took it to Mr. Bachchan and he liked it… It’s a few legendary director making his final movies. That was the set-up. I could not get the second actor, sadly. So then issues simply went alongside the best way,” Motwane shares.

Watch the complete interview right here.

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