Which unfinished movie of Bollywood actress, late Divya Bharti do you wish she had completed? Which other movies was she replaced in?

 The movies in which Divya Bharti was replaced due to her untimely death are Mohra (replaced by Raveena Tandon), Laadla (Sridevi), Hulchul (Kajol), Vijaypath (Tabu), Andolan (Mamta Kulkarni), Aag (Shilpa Shetty), Kartavya (Juhi Chawla), Dhanwaan (Karishma Kapoor) and Angrakshak (Pooja Bhatt).

She had signed Kanyadaan and Raghuveer where she was replaced by Manisha Koirala and Shilpa Shirodkar. Some of her films like Bajrang and Ek Kadam Aage were shelved after her death.

She would have done good in Mohra but it would have been interesting to see her in Laadla.

Divya had already shot 80% of the film before her death. The female character of all the films mentioned above come under the “typical bracket”. Laadla had a female centric storyline.

There is some footage of Divya’s performance and she has done a commendable job. In fact the footage of her performance was shown in a television programme after her death in 1994.

Director Raj Kanwar was so very impressed by Divya’s performance that he had shown the clips to Sridevi and asked her to emote like Divya.

It would be unfair to debate on their performances. It has to be noted that Sridevi was an experienced actress known for her versitality whereas Divya was in the early stage of her career.

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Which movie best portrayed aliens the way you imagined them?

 I really loved their portrayal in The Arrival.

They weren’t this malicious species that fell into typical cliches of science fiction, zapping everyone with lasers and abducting people right and left.

They spoke in this bizarre shape and mathematical language that we were able to decipher. The heptapods felt like a genuine attempt to imagine a new type of intelligence that evolved in an entirely different way.

The director used restraint in this film, which is always a breath of fresh air—especially with movies involving aliens.

What is something movies always get wrong?

 This is how bollywood depicts Army.

Seriously, what do you mean by it?

According to Bollywood logic Chief of the Army staff is walking with a “Major”?

From what day Major is a four star rank?

Why Mr. BSF is having a hairstyle?

Have only officers fought the war or were there JCOs and ORs too?

Order is an order, hierarchy is everything in army, no one speaks dialogues like “khoon ki akhri boond” and etcetera.

What a scene! Without any formation Pakistani soldiers are standing showing their chests, like, come kill us?

What a vision Sunny Deol has! He can see the thumbs up of pilot inside his cockpit.

Unless you are from Sikh regiment, you are not allowed to keep beard. What is so special with Bachchan Sahab?

Are you using your brain bollywood? A girl is dancing in army camp? Neither does a camp like this exist and nor does real army think up such idiotic ideas.

So Why are they Saluting like navy (one like airforce and army)? And Mr. Shetty you will not find your salute in any armed forces!

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I am not vituperating the quality of bollywood. It has given many wonderful movies. But only for earning huge sum of money you are diluting your content.

If can’t depict reality then be away and make war documentaries. No army camp has a girl dancing and no major will allow something like that.

You make an actor wear insignia of Colonel, give him duties of a Major and call him a Captain, how contradictory is that?

Collect factual information before depicting something or you are just stealing the valour of the soldiers who died protecting you.

Which are some of the most logical movies ever made?

 All films of Anurag Kashyap

He only make sensible films.

1— In Paanch, We can feel the life of self destructed Musicians

and also a fear of being caught when they accidentally commit crimes.

2-In Black Friday, we can feel how middle class people are crushed between Goons and God. How a common man can be brainwashed in the name of religion.

3- In Dev D, we feel bad for Chanda that how she entered in prostitution business.

4— In No Smoking, we can feel the terror of Bengali Baba.

I always think the character of Bengali Baba played by Paresh Rawal is bit underrated, he is one of the most Haunting Villain in Bollywood.

5— In Ugly , just like the characters we also forgets the little girl Kali

6— In Gangs of Wasseypur, we can feel the Violent history of Wasseypur and its sub characters. I always think Sardaar khan , Shahid Khan or Faizal Khan all are the Sub Characters, the main character of the film is the Place Wasseypur itself

Just like in Taxi Driver the main character is not Travis or Iris, the filthy New York is the main character.

All the films that i have mentioned above,

every scene,

every characters,

every dialogue,

every locations

makes sense. There is no unnecessary scene or dialogues. Anurag sir never directs the unnecessary things. All of his films are sensible.

For example-

Let's take one situation- Boy loves girl, so no other guy can touch her, he can't stand if someone teases his girl.

Let's see what happens when Someone tries to tease Boy's girl by typical Bollywood Director

Hero wins.

Now let's see How Anurag Kashyap directs this simple scene

First Boy sees Girl

Here comes the bad guy, and he is teasing her

Hero gets angry

So he beats the bad guy

Scene cut.

After some time

This happens to our Hero

Simple , sensible and realistic.

Why to use action director, so much lighting, unnecessary close-up, unnecessary slow motion. Why?

Take any of his film scene, its always subjective. You can always feel the realism in his every story. We can connect ourselves with his characters.

Let's take this scene from Gangs of Wasseypur 2

Faizal Khan— Baap ka, dada ka, bhai ka , sabka badla lega re tera faijal.

Why this scene is epic?

Not just only because of acting, there are so many things

1— First, no background music, normally in a situation like this we hear a loud energetic music, because it is a situation which requires music because character is saying that he'll take revenge, any other director would have put music in this scene, But Anurag sir uses silence to play with the emotion.

2— So why silence? Because just before this scene we hear loud music and teri meherbaniyaan song

So that's why silence, why to fade out and fade in new music , if you can use silence in this.

3— look at the clothes, the lighting the background, and most importantly the dialogue, its a pretty simple dialogue (Baap ka, dada ka, bhai ka , sabka badla lega re tera faijal), but the way it was shot and acted made this simple scene into epic.