Ghai recalls attending late Rishi Kapoor’s wedding to Neetu Kapoor and spoke about his friendship with the actor, “Rishi was very fond of me and so was I. In his last days, he said to me, ‘I’ve done enough now it’s time for me to go.’ When I asked him why he said that, he replied that he knew it was his time to go.'”
“He respected relationships. If a film didn’t work, he didn’t let that affect his relationship. I don’t remember him ever being late on sets or refusing to shot extra hours when requested,” the filmmaker said.
When asked about what the industry could do to reinvent, the Taal director said, ‘the industry must respect writers’, “Making a film is a passion, but today making a film is a business. The communication that needs to exist between a filmmaker and the audience is missing today.”
Talking about the way filmmaking has changed as an art, he said, “There needs to be a communication between the filmmaker and their audience. That is absent these days.”
Speaking of actors,…
