Twenty-Five years ago, a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, Sriram Raghavan, made a video docu-drama, Raman Raghav: A City, A Killer, meant for a VHS audience. It was on a serial killer who stalked the streets of Mumbai in the 1960s and killed 40-odd people by bashing their heads in. The video was never released as the series of crime stories it was a part of was scrapped. Anurag Kashyap, who worked on a film on another serial killer, Auto Narayan, for the same series, watched the film and has been fascinated with the killer ever since. A contemporary take on the killer, Raman Raghav 2.0, directed by him, releases on June 24 after a Cannes premiere last month.
Raghavan, 52, and Kashyap, 43, went on to become filmmakers who changed the idiom of Hindi cinema. They are self-proclaimed “film geeks”, who have worked together and tripped on crime fiction and movies. Ahead of Raman Raghav 2.0’s release, they come together for a conversation on their fascination for darker subjects and Bollywood’s crime stories.
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4 июн 2016
