I am a huge believer in fate. Having said that, I also believe that we have to work and place ourselves in the path of fate. I don't think that it will come and pluck you out of obscurity. I am also a firm believer in giving two hundred percent to everything that I can control. In that sense I think that it is very duplicable, but someone has to go through everything that I did and get to the point and then wait for fate to sweep you along...Resolve! Never give up! ... When I launched the film...I had already bought the rights -- I had bought them way before... Nagesh Kukunoor, filmmaker
There is an interview with Kukunoor in the current issue of Khabar How to quit a stable corporate career and become a successful filmmaker. He gives specific examples of being in the right place at the right time or having a friend in the business who was.
At one point he speaks of the differences between audiences in India and their counterparts who are Indian Americans. He also contrasts the British Indian audience.
Yes! A huge difference, because you are constantly influenced by your surroundings... The empathy that Indian audiences find will be far greater, the nuances ... will be far more understood by those guys in India and Indians here who have been in touch with India on a regular basis. Because, for the most part, and I was one of them, so this is not an accusation, the moment I came here, other than my buying the once-every-two-year visits to India, I took India out of my psyche. So it is harder to relate because you are going by the memory from many years back as opposed to being fresh and current.
This latter quote speaks to me in a similar way as to how an internationally adopted person, and especially if transracially or transculturally, can find the psyche of the sending country missing from his/herself, yet the memories are still there, even if the person was very young at adoption.
If you have adopted from India, this magazine is a wonderful resource. Many of the articles are found online. I find it a resource even though my children are from China.
Karin
Originally posted 2007-02-06 09:36:21.
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