How did you become a filmmaker?
My grandfather Inder Raj Anand was a prolific film writer, who wrote 125 films, including many of Mr Raj Kapoor and V Shantaram. Naturally his children got into films. My uncle Tinnu Anand who is an actor-director and my father, Bittu Anand, was a producer. So I was always inclined to films. My father made two films with his childhood friend Rishi Kapoor, both of which made losses, post which he made Shahenshah in 1988. That was the point he left the film industry and got into the garment business. I was exactly 10 then. My father did not have an education to fall back on and thus, always only encouraged me to study. It was instilled in me to become a CA. So after class XII, I went to the CA institute to pick a form to apply and saw a really long line outside for the form. I took a bus back home and in the evening I went to my college NM, Mumbai, where there was a really short queue for taking up the CS course (Company Secretary). It was also convenient as it was an evening course and I took that up. I did that for a year and half. At that time Rahul Rawail uncle who was again my father's best friend from childhood, was starting a film Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi. I was aimless and did not know what to do. At that time, when you were aimless, you would become an assistant director. You needed no qualification for it and you just needed to learn to be a slave with zero self-respect. At that time, I had all these qualities. I was in a space where I was ready to do anything. I was really bored in the CS course anyway.
I was one of the only two assistants Rahul uncle took on his London schedule, so I did everything and got exposed to how films are made. I didn't know how to give a clap. The first time I gave a clap, it was a nightmare as I had to give it in front of Rishi Kapoor. I gave it too loudly right in front of his nose and he fired me. I was even more nervous giving it the next day. It's an art to give a clap as you need to know how far you need to be from the camera and how far from the actor, how soft or loud it should it be. Rahul uncle is responsible for whatever I am doing today. While I was working with him, I was close to Shanoo Sharma, who at that time was family friends with Adi Chopra and would often go to play cricket in his house. So I would tell her, 'Wow, you are going to Adi's. Talk to him about me na.' So one day, she calls me to say, 'Come, Adi wants to meet you.' I gave a formal interview to Adi, who then hired me as an assistant and I started assisting and rose to become an executive producer on Hum Tum. I thought I had arrived, given my own family background on production. I had made the film in budget for which I got a bonus of `1 lakh. So, I went to tell him how I was so happy being a producer and to my shock he says, 'You will be a director.' I was very disappointed as director was a very hardworking job and I was very cushy being an EP. I had also met my wife Mamta by now, who had also been an assistant and we got married. She propelled me to take up direction and I directed my first film Salaam Namaste that became a hit. I then made Ta Ra Rum Pum, Bachana Ae Haseeno and then Anjaana Anjani and now Bang Bang.
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Talk about your relationship with your father?
My father died of a heart attack in 2001. I went back to work after his chautha. I was not close to him, though I am extremely close to my mother, who always protected me. I was always a rebel and stubborn to the point of being badtameez. Obviously, he did not like that, and today, since I have a son, I realise how he must have felt. My father and I had no relationship. His relationship with me was a reflection of his relationship with his father. He hugely respected his father, was scared of him and would never raise his voice in front of him and he had the same expectations from me. I didn't respect him the way I should have or in the way he would have liked me to.
Who do you love the most in the world?
My wife Mamta, who is rightfully my better half. It's not that we don't have fights, but that is the time you realise how much she matters to me in my life. My sense of being comes from her. I only seek her approval in whatever I do more than anybody else's. If she doesn't like something, it puts me in a tizzy. I would be nothing without her. She controls me, shows me the right side of things and teaches me to become a people's person. I truly feel low only when I have fought with my wife. That way I am a needy person and I always make up. I say sorry even if it is not my fault. I really depend on her and she is my anchor. No one will like me when they meet me for the first time, as I will come across as arrogant and snobbish. And I am all that. I have self-respect bordering on arrogance. I crave for understanding as I am a complicated person. I was like that right from the time I was an assistant. I would not take crap shit from anyone, whoever you may be. When I was shooting with Rahul uncle in Scotland, he once fired me for something. I left the hotel and walked away. Rishi Kapoor called up my father and panicked. Rahul uncle sent men to look for me. I could not handle someone talking to me badly. Suniel Shetty found me and got me to his room very kindly, talked me down and told me, 'You have to respect your director and be there for him.' He calmed me down and that is the work my wife does today. She is really grounded and the opposite of me. I am really hot-tempered and create a bad name for myself wherever I go. So she has to go and repair it after that. The strange thing is when we fight, she gets really upset and I tell her, 'Man you tell everybody that he is not like that. Don't take him for every word he speaks and you yourself hold me responsible for every word of mine.' She is balanced. I do things on an impulse. I make both, friends and enemies in a flash. And I don't care about repairing that and need to work on it.
What is Hrithik Roshan like?
Hrithik is a very strong person. His strength comes from positivity, as he sees the positive in the most adverse situations. He is warm and respectful to everybody. I have seen other actors, who just don't treat normal people as people, whereas I have seen Hrithik getting up, offering seats, wishing hello and goodbye, wishing good morning and good night to the crew.
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Did you ever feel insecure about Bang Bang getting shelved at any point, given all that Hrithik was going through personally?
This film started against all odds. Hrithik Roshan is approached for every film that is written I would assume. And that the fact that he chose my film over everyone else's film and that too, after I had delivered a flop film Anjaana Anjani. I wasn't sure that he would do my film, as he had not signed anything after Krrish3. Everyone was shocked in disbelief, hoping that it would not be made. That started playing on my mind. We did the first schedule in Thailand and Greece. And then he went into his brain surgery. I was in Prague waiting for him but had to come back, obviously, as he could not shoot. I came back three days after his surgery. The last message I got from him said how his brain surgery would propel Bang Bang into being a film even bigger and better than before and he invited me home for lunch with my wife. That was really motivating. Next day, I came back but didn't hear from him. His mobile was switched off and I didn't hear anything from him for a month-and-a-half. I knew nothing that was happening. By nature, I will never push and will not make a call. Nobody had access to him other than me. After a month-and-a-half, he surfaced and said, 'Forgive me for the absence from your life. Just give me 10-12 more days and we will get back full throttle.' He got into post production and promotions of Krrish3 and we had decided to shoot immediately post that. We were to start shooting in 8 days, when we had to pull the set down as he wanted to go to US to recover. And that is the first time I had a doubt. I didn't tell him that though. I knew that he is too strong a person, but that's when the crew lost motivation and the word started coming out that he may not do the film and I heard that he was starting Shuddhi. I knew now that something was wrong and it is at this time that I read the predictions made about Hrithik in one of the newspapers. It said, 'He will back out of a project that he is currently doing. And the next film that he will start will be in November 2015.' That was a low. I still didn't confront it. I am both sensitive and egoistic. He then called me one day and told me, 'I am not doing Shuddhi any more.' I was shocked. And suddenly that newspaper prediction made sense to me that it was correct and that he would back out of Shuddhi and not Bang Bang, as I assumed and that he would start his next film in November 2014 and he is starting Mohenjo Daro. I told Hrithik about this incident just recently a few days before the release.
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