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Kabir Bedi’ new show profiles the greatest directors of Bollywood
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SUAVE PRESENTER Kabir Bedi
Kabir Bedi’s debut performance in Girish Karnad’s “Tughlaq” put his dream of filmmaking on the back-burner. “I was the film chief in Lintas and O&M and also had my own agency, Dimension 70,” Kabir says, his bar
itone booming down the phone. “Then ‘Tughlaq’ came along, followed by film offers. And I thought I should check it out…”
However, the actor never really gave up his directorial ambitions. “In all the movies and televisions shows, I was part of, I always observed the directors carefully.” That is probably why he’s so enthusiastic about hosting ‘Directors Cut,’ premiering soon on Zoom TV. “The show gives me a chance to interact with some of the biggest names in mainstream cinema like Shekhar Kapur and Rajkumar Santoshi as well as younger directors like Anurag Kashyap and Farhan Akhtar,” he says.
The hour-long show he’s hosting explores the world of the director. Kabir says “It’s not a regular interview format; it is more like a drawing room chat.”
Ask Kabir who was the easiest to talk to and he laughs, “You should not ask me to play favourites! But I have known Shekar for the longest time — we studied together, shared accommodation when we were starting out and are constantly in each other’s houses abroad — so we continued chatting even after the interview was over.”
By talking to different generations of filmmakers, Kabir perceived the changes in filmmaking over the years. “I think senior directors favour an epic canvas, while younger filmmakers are more edgy in style and content.”
The show also helped bring him up to speed with the latest happenings in Bollywood. “The lesson I learnt about today’s mainstream cinema is that it is not enough just to tell a good story; one has to tell it well. The audience now wants visual excitement and the tremendous developments in special effects means a filmmaker is a position to provide it.”
Kabir has a birthday coming up on January 16. “It comes every year,” he says drolly. “I will be in Rome, a city I love.”
Directors Cut will premiere on Zoom TV on January 20 at 8 p.m.
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