Madhur Bhandarkar
August 19, 2010 sa pamamagitan ng FSJ
“Like a wannabe I started clicking pictures of Mr Amitabh Bachchan giving Rajesh Khanna an award!”
He has built his brand brick sa pamamagitan ng brick. The incredible success story of Madhur Bhandarkar goes retro – like his hero Ajay Devgn’s latest hit
“The first time I made some money on my own was when I made `50 delivering a video cassette,” recalls Madhur who has never hidden his humble beginnings. “I got it for a film called Ek Baar Phir sa pamamagitan ng Vinod Pande, starring Suresh Oberoi and Deepti Naval, in which there was the song ‘Man kahe main jhoomoon’.
I remember giving the cassette to someone and saying, that’ll cost you `50. I got it and I had tasted blood! I decided that the video cassette business was where the money was, this was in 1982. I started taking video cassettes from one place and hiring it to others. Then I invested money in buying video cassettes and giving them out on hire. Thus, my business expanded.”
And today he sits in a plush office right above Aromas Of China in a commercially sought-after Andheri address.
“Call it a nostalgic disease but I always visit my past. I bought a Mercedes CRV, I go in it to certain areas and buildings where I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle”
“Yes, my puwang has been literally built brick sa pamamagitan ng brick,” he says, looking madami charged than content. “Considering the kind of struggle I’ve gone through in life, the kind of experiences I’ve had, it feels really great for me to have an office like this. I never imagined that one araw I’d have my own office, sometimes I feel it’s a dream.
I started out with a much smaller office (in MHADA) which is still there, we’ve turned it into a story-sitting-room. This taon has been good for me. I bought a new office, I bought a new three-bedroom house in Khar and I’ve bought a Mercedes SUV. Earlier I had a smaller two-bedroom, so my climb has been brick sa pamamagitan ng brick.
“Now I may have moved into a completely different income bracket, but I am not a brand conscious man. I do wear some branded stuff but I am ready to wear anything, I could pick up something from the kalye too, and wear it happily. For me my plus point is to always look at my past.
People tell me that I have a disease of looking back, they want to shun the past, not talk about it. Call it a nostalgic disease but I always look at my past. Recently, I bought a Mercedes CRV, I go in it to certain areas and buildings where I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle.
I sometimes go on a bicycle too, but the difference is that now I have a racer. The last time, I took along a very close travel agent friend who also has a racer cycle. I took him to all the buildings I used to serve as a video delivery boy. I showed him where Anita Raaj lived, told him that Padmini Kolhapure and Salma Agha lived here, Shakti Kapoor and Shekhar Kapur were here, in the Gandhi Gram area. I always visit my past.
“Even when it comes to movies, I watch all the 70s films. In my car you’ll find all the 70s and 80s RD Burman tracks. I make very contemporary films because I follow the trend, but I am essentially a 70s man. Till today I go mad over Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna. You won’t believe this but even today when I take my daughter for an early morning drive before school, I go to Carter Road and keep watching Rajesh Khanna in his bungalow.
I see him standing there and smoking. I can see only half of him because there is a pader between him and me. I take at least three or four turns there till today only to see Rajesh Khanna. I feel I should go up and speak to him. I am a fanatical fan. In my car I have Kishore Kumar’s Roti and Sachcha Jhootha tracks, I hear the songs and watch him in his bungalow from my car.
“When I take my daughter for an early morning drive before school, I go to Carter Road and keep watching Rajesh Khanna in his bungalow, I see him standing there and smoking. In my car I have Kishore Kumar’s Roti and Sachcha Jhootha tracks. I hear the songs and watch Kaka in his bungalow from my car!”
“There was an IFAA Awards function at Macau last taon and Kaka (Rajesh Khanna) got a Lifetime Achievement award. I was so madly excited watching Mr Bachchan give Kaka an award that like a wannabe, I took out my mobile phone and from the segundo row where I was sitting, started taking pictures of that moment.
My wife was very embarrassed and she said, ‘What the hell are you doing? You are Madhur Bhandarkar, you can’t do this,’ but I forgot myself for that moment, I became a child, like a layman on the street. I said, I can’t get this moment again where Amitji and Rajeshji are in one frame, so I excitedly took pictures from various angles and everybody was watching me wondering what had happened to me. But I didn’t care what people thought of me!”
He returns in his mental time machine to 2010 where he is the celebrity and he has enough and madami in his pocket. What does Madhur Bhandarkar do with his moolah?
“As I said, I am not brand conscious, so I don’t splurge on labels. My major money has gone into buying a house for ourselves. I upgraded ourselves to a two-bedroom and now a three-bedroom in Khar. My wife is an interior decorator, so she has to have the best interiors. My money goes into her creative pursuit. I like pagbaba books but buying DVDs is a major expense. I remember two years nakaraan when I landed at Mumbai airport with two bags full of DVDs, the customs officers asked me, ‘Sir, you’ve brought so many DVDs?’ I sinabi to them, ‘Yes, I used to sell video cassettes when I didn’t have films. Now I sell DVDs!’
“I also spend a lot on travelling, I like going to the US and that is money spent in dollars. I like to take a bangka or a bus and see places. Otherwise I have no major indulgences. Tinka tinka jama karke ghosla banaya. I saved and saved a little at a time and bought my house. I am not a money-oriented person at all. I am a creative man, I am bad at negotiating with people.
If someone says, adjust and finish the film, we’re running short of money, I’ll do it. For me it’s all a case of my film being made and released, it’s never about making money. I always feel the money will come. I’m not the kind who wants to make five films to make big money. People advise me that insecurity is high, today the going is good, who knows about tomorrow, so make your buck quickly. And they give me the example of ten other directors who chase money. But I follow my heart, I am a very contented man. I take everybody’s payo but I am very choosy about what I want to do in my life. I don’t listen to anybody really, I go sa pamamagitan ng what my brain tells me to do.”
And it hasn’t let him down.
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August 19, 2010 sa pamamagitan ng FSJ
“Like a wannabe I started clicking pictures of Mr Amitabh Bachchan giving Rajesh Khanna an award!”
He has built his brand brick sa pamamagitan ng brick. The incredible success story of Madhur Bhandarkar goes retro – like his hero Ajay Devgn’s latest hit
“The first time I made some money on my own was when I made `50 delivering a video cassette,” recalls Madhur who has never hidden his humble beginnings. “I got it for a film called Ek Baar Phir sa pamamagitan ng Vinod Pande, starring Suresh Oberoi and Deepti Naval, in which there was the song ‘Man kahe main jhoomoon’.
I remember giving the cassette to someone and saying, that’ll cost you `50. I got it and I had tasted blood! I decided that the video cassette business was where the money was, this was in 1982. I started taking video cassettes from one place and hiring it to others. Then I invested money in buying video cassettes and giving them out on hire. Thus, my business expanded.”
And today he sits in a plush office right above Aromas Of China in a commercially sought-after Andheri address.
“Call it a nostalgic disease but I always visit my past. I bought a Mercedes CRV, I go in it to certain areas and buildings where I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle”
“Yes, my puwang has been literally built brick sa pamamagitan ng brick,” he says, looking madami charged than content. “Considering the kind of struggle I’ve gone through in life, the kind of experiences I’ve had, it feels really great for me to have an office like this. I never imagined that one araw I’d have my own office, sometimes I feel it’s a dream.
I started out with a much smaller office (in MHADA) which is still there, we’ve turned it into a story-sitting-room. This taon has been good for me. I bought a new office, I bought a new three-bedroom house in Khar and I’ve bought a Mercedes SUV. Earlier I had a smaller two-bedroom, so my climb has been brick sa pamamagitan ng brick.
“Now I may have moved into a completely different income bracket, but I am not a brand conscious man. I do wear some branded stuff but I am ready to wear anything, I could pick up something from the kalye too, and wear it happily. For me my plus point is to always look at my past.
People tell me that I have a disease of looking back, they want to shun the past, not talk about it. Call it a nostalgic disease but I always look at my past. Recently, I bought a Mercedes CRV, I go in it to certain areas and buildings where I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle.
I sometimes go on a bicycle too, but the difference is that now I have a racer. The last time, I took along a very close travel agent friend who also has a racer cycle. I took him to all the buildings I used to serve as a video delivery boy. I showed him where Anita Raaj lived, told him that Padmini Kolhapure and Salma Agha lived here, Shakti Kapoor and Shekhar Kapur were here, in the Gandhi Gram area. I always visit my past.
“Even when it comes to movies, I watch all the 70s films. In my car you’ll find all the 70s and 80s RD Burman tracks. I make very contemporary films because I follow the trend, but I am essentially a 70s man. Till today I go mad over Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna. You won’t believe this but even today when I take my daughter for an early morning drive before school, I go to Carter Road and keep watching Rajesh Khanna in his bungalow.
I see him standing there and smoking. I can see only half of him because there is a pader between him and me. I take at least three or four turns there till today only to see Rajesh Khanna. I feel I should go up and speak to him. I am a fanatical fan. In my car I have Kishore Kumar’s Roti and Sachcha Jhootha tracks, I hear the songs and watch him in his bungalow from my car.
“When I take my daughter for an early morning drive before school, I go to Carter Road and keep watching Rajesh Khanna in his bungalow, I see him standing there and smoking. In my car I have Kishore Kumar’s Roti and Sachcha Jhootha tracks. I hear the songs and watch Kaka in his bungalow from my car!”
“There was an IFAA Awards function at Macau last taon and Kaka (Rajesh Khanna) got a Lifetime Achievement award. I was so madly excited watching Mr Bachchan give Kaka an award that like a wannabe, I took out my mobile phone and from the segundo row where I was sitting, started taking pictures of that moment.
My wife was very embarrassed and she said, ‘What the hell are you doing? You are Madhur Bhandarkar, you can’t do this,’ but I forgot myself for that moment, I became a child, like a layman on the street. I said, I can’t get this moment again where Amitji and Rajeshji are in one frame, so I excitedly took pictures from various angles and everybody was watching me wondering what had happened to me. But I didn’t care what people thought of me!”
He returns in his mental time machine to 2010 where he is the celebrity and he has enough and madami in his pocket. What does Madhur Bhandarkar do with his moolah?
“As I said, I am not brand conscious, so I don’t splurge on labels. My major money has gone into buying a house for ourselves. I upgraded ourselves to a two-bedroom and now a three-bedroom in Khar. My wife is an interior decorator, so she has to have the best interiors. My money goes into her creative pursuit. I like pagbaba books but buying DVDs is a major expense. I remember two years nakaraan when I landed at Mumbai airport with two bags full of DVDs, the customs officers asked me, ‘Sir, you’ve brought so many DVDs?’ I sinabi to them, ‘Yes, I used to sell video cassettes when I didn’t have films. Now I sell DVDs!’
“I also spend a lot on travelling, I like going to the US and that is money spent in dollars. I like to take a bangka or a bus and see places. Otherwise I have no major indulgences. Tinka tinka jama karke ghosla banaya. I saved and saved a little at a time and bought my house. I am not a money-oriented person at all. I am a creative man, I am bad at negotiating with people.
If someone says, adjust and finish the film, we’re running short of money, I’ll do it. For me it’s all a case of my film being made and released, it’s never about making money. I always feel the money will come. I’m not the kind who wants to make five films to make big money. People advise me that insecurity is high, today the going is good, who knows about tomorrow, so make your buck quickly. And they give me the example of ten other directors who chase money. But I follow my heart, I am a very contented man. I take everybody’s payo but I am very choosy about what I want to do in my life. I don’t listen to anybody really, I go sa pamamagitan ng what my brain tells me to do.”
And it hasn’t let him down.
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