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By Our Correspondent Š2006 Bollyvista.com |
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Kamlesh Pandey |
"Till date as a writer I had been just writing what others either wanted or expected from me and hence hired me to write. I think I have had enough of it. Now that I do not have to prove to any one about my capability, I have decided to write what I want. And my latest release as a writer- Rakyesh Om Prakash's 'Rang De Basanti' is one subject with which I am literally gung ho about." That is Kamlesh Pandey the veteran writer who holds forth on his current pet obsession- Rang De Basanti starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Siddharth, Atul Kulkarni and Kunal Kapoor. Kamlesh who had started his career, as a writer with Pankaj Parashar's Jalwa, has indeed come a log way. Among the films which he ahs written are Tezaab, Chalbaaz, Dil, Saudagar, Khalnayak and Beta.
Right now, Kamlesh is excited with the path his career has taken him on. Two of his films are seeing the light of the day in January- Sanjay Gupta's 'Zinda' and Rakyesh Mehra's 'Rang De Basanti'. "I am excited about both the films. While I have just written the dialogues of Zinda, which has been inspired by a South Korean film called Old Boy, I have written the screenplay and dialogues of Rang De Baanti, which is essentially Rakyesh Mehra's baby. Kamlesh adds. "Luckily Rakyesh and I share the same emotions and concerns. Rang De Basanti may have a cynical point of view but I think it is the wake up call or today's youth, who seem to have compromised with the two monoliths- the corporate and the family, who shape your, who actually shape your mind and make you believe what they want you to believe". Kamlesh is happy that Aamir Khan has loved only two subjects in the last ten years- Sarfarosh and Rang De Basanti. "The way Aamir has accommodated himself so beautifully and dissolved himself in the group is to be seen to be believed." Kamlesh adds.
The under current of the film Rang De Basanti, according to Kamlesh is what would Bhagat Singh had done if only he was alive today. "I wrote Rang De Basanti out of a sense of anger because under the guise of cinema, we only find crap cropping up every one and then. I had grown up on as staple diet of Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor as a child. I belong to the school, which thinks that a film ought to have some substance and set out to say something." Kamlesh adds, " I have used a very odd structure for the film, which was very difficult. I feel that it is the director's vision, which has to take over once my script, is ready because it is the director who sets out to execute on celluloid what the writer writes on paper. It is creditable that Rakyesh has delivered what he had promised" |
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