Another morning's newspaper. The headline reads - 'Dabangg trailer opens with a bang. The twitter world going ga-ga about the trailer.' A quick shower and off I head to meet the debutant director of Indian cinema's most talked about film releasing this Eid. When I enter Abhinav Kashyap's just done up office in Andheri, no wonder, I feel that he is sitting there like the cat that got the cream. He comes across as a man who Bollywood knows as Anurag Kashyap's brother. "I can't escape that, can I?" Abhinav questions, and continues, "But it's good for me when my career is just about to begin." Cheeky, isn't he? Come to think of it, Abhinav and Anurag are poles apart in their cinematic takes. Kashyap has just finished eating his lunch and is about to start the interview when I spot an A2 size frame of The Godfather behind his back. "It will soon change in the coming years. We will definitely have our Bollywood ones up there in a few years." That's how quirky he can get. Just then his assistant director on the same film offers me something hot or cold. I choose the latter and in minutes, open my fizzy can of Diet Coke. Now understand this: Abhinav Kashyap talks too much. He rarely talks about himself. He doesn't want to tell you what he already knows or what he just read. He's not much interested in discussing what he's already done. He maunders, protracts, divagates through his ideas and never pauses. Mostly, he wants to tell you what he's thinking. And he's thinking Dabangg all the way. But that's it. From there on, Kashyap does not shut up. In part one of the exclusive two part series, in a no holds barred interview, UK's Harrow Observer columnist and Bollywood Hungama's London correspondent talks to the man in news for all the right reasons, Abhinav Kashyap, on his debut film which is touted to break all records once it opens at the box office this September.
"Dabangg will work" - Abhinav Kashyap
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