Bold & brainy: Bollywood's new thought leaders
TWENTY YEARS after class got over: the three men met and hugged each other outside a movie theatre, telling each other the story they had never told anyone: all they had touched since had turned gold.
That, of course, would have been the Bollywood version of the story of director buddies Raju Hirani, Sriram Raghavan and Rajat Kapoor Hirani created Bollywood history with the "Munnabhai" films, Raghavan just joined the A-list with the cracker Johny Gaddaar, and Kapoor proved his point on his kind of film-making yet again with the just-released witty thriller Mithya.
But for almost 20 years after they studied at the Film and Television institute of India (FTII) in Pune, the reality was more like a 1970s art house movie. Armed with just their ambition and talent, they wrote scripts and planned movies and patiently heard producers say "No".
Until now - until they ran into the new Bollywood. The three friends are now among a
That, of course, would have been the Bollywood version of the story of director buddies Raju Hirani, Sriram Raghavan and Rajat Kapoor Hirani created Bollywood history with the "Munnabhai" films, Raghavan just joined the A-list with the cracker Johny Gaddaar, and Kapoor proved his point on his kind of film-making yet again with the just-released witty thriller Mithya.
But for almost 20 years after they studied at the Film and Television institute of India (FTII) in Pune, the reality was more like a 1970s art house movie. Armed with just their ambition and talent, they wrote scripts and planned movies and patiently heard producers say "No".
Until now - until they ran into the new Bollywood. The three friends are now among a
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