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
a
no
holds
barred
interview,
this
special
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.
The
reasons
-
Salman
Khan,
Salman
Khan,
Salman
Khan.
And
then,
Kashyap
intervenes.
He
pauses
and
delivers
a
line
of
the
day,
"Cliche
is
a
cliche
because
it
works.
I
had
read
somewhere."
Twitter
Twitter
never
existed
till
a
year
and
a
half
back.
This
whole
'tweeting'
phenomenon
has
really
caught
on
now.
I
personally
feel,
no
other
Bollywood
star
can
match
the
kind
of
fan
following
in
masses
like
that
of
Salman
Khan.
All
what
the
audiences
got
was
the
product
which
they
were
sure
of,
came
from
Salman's
table.
These
factors
were
the
driving
force
which
led
to
the
stampede
that
followed
over
Dabangg's
first
theatrical
trailer.
The
'Salman
Khan
way'
Over
the
years,
if
you
analyze
Salman's
career,
there
are
particular
kind
of
roles
that
people
like
to
watch
Salman
in,
and
once
we
made
up
our
minds
that
we
are
going
to
make
a
commercial
pot-boiler,
we
thought
of
going
the
whole
unapologetic
way,
the
Salman
Khan
way.
One
schedule
There
were
instances
in
the
past
where
Salman
was
told
that
he
wasn't
serious
about
his
work,
he
was
known
for
his
continuity
jerks
in
his
films,
he
had
different
hair
styles
in
the
same
film,
etc.
We
were
very
careful
with
all
those
facts.
Dabangg
is
Salman's
first
film
after
Maine
Pyaar
Kiya
which
is
done
in
one
schedule.
This
was
done
because
he
could
maintain
the
same
hairstyle.
I
wanted
him
to
grow
a
moustache
but
he
couldn't
do
it
because
he
was
shooting
for
Veer
and
there
was
no
time
gap
between
the
two
films.
Dabangg
v/s
Wanted
I
would
be
limiting
my
film
if
I
said
that
Dabangg
takes
off
from
where
Wanted
left.
Yes,
it
has
got
all
the
masala
of
Wanted
but
there
is
much
more
to
Dabangg.
That
is
just
one
aspect
of
the
film.
It's
got
far
more
serious
drama
than
shown
in
Wanted.
Salman's
character
kills
about
fifty
people
in
Wanted
but
in
Dabangg,
he
hardly
kills.
It's
more
in
the
masti
zone.
Chulbul
Pandey
is
more
interested
in
the
money
than
in
the
killing.
Robinhood
Pandey
We
didn't
start
off
with
a
Robinhood
concept.
It
just
happened
on
one
day
of
the
shoot
that
there
was
a
scene
where
a
character
asks
Salman
to
introduce
himself.
So
we
just
put
our
heads
together
because
we
could
come
up
with
a
name
that
described
Chulbul
aptly.
The
suggestion
of
'Robinhood
Pandey'
came
from
Salman.
The
name
is
universal
and
the
people
around
the
world
know
who
he
was.
Salman
doesn't
want
to
reveal
his
first
name
Chulbul
in
the
film.
When
we
edited
the
film,
people
started
loving
the
Robinhood
name
and
we
thought
to
stick
with
it.
Sexy
in
a
Saree
-
Sonakshi
Oh
yes,
Sonakshi
definitely
looks
sexy
in
a
saree.
She
has
got
that
'take
home
to
your
momma'
type
of
an
appeal.
We
went
through
a
lot
of
new
faces
but
Sonakshi
was
one
of
the
prettiest
faces
I
met
at
that
point
in
time.
The
lineage
kind
of
helped
me
package
it
well.
There
is
a
curiosity
when
a
star
child
is
being
launched.
Sonakshi
is
a
very
good
learner.
She
lost
thirty
to
forty
kilos
in
six
to
eight
months,
she
did
a
workshop
which
we
conducted
for
three
months
and
she
was
all
there,
listening
and
trying.
I
loved
her
nose
pin
and
insisted
her
to
keep
it.
It
somehow
just
fitted
her
face.
There
is
not
too
much
glamorous
stuff
I
could've
done
with
Sonakshi.
So
I
told
her,
"I
just
hope
people
love
you
in
the
saree
just
the
way
I
like."
Songs
We've
got
five
blockbuster
tracks
in
the
film.
The
first
one
is
the
title
track
called
'Hunhun
Dabangg'.
Then
there
is
a
track
which
people
love
right
now
called
'Tere
Mast
Mast
Do
Nain'.
There
is
an
item
number
called
'Munni
Badnaam
Huyee'
which
is
choreographed
on
Malaika
Arora
Khan.
She
plays
'Munni'
in
the
film.
And
there
is
a
typical
male
party
number
where
people
are
drinking
and
all,
titled
'Humko
Peeni
Hain'.
We've
packaged
all
the
songs
and
the
film
in
a
manner
which
would
seem
fresh
to
people.
Cliche
is
a
cliche
I
don't
know
who
said
that
but
I
read
somewhere
that
'Cliche
is
a
cliche
because
it
works'.
Dabangg
will
work.
There
is
a
reason
why
such
films
do
well.
It's
very
easy
to
sit
in
cosy
offices
and
intellectualise
the
whole
thing
but
if
you
go
out
on
the
streets,
you'll
find
out
the
truth.
One
of
my
assistants
went
to
a
barber
shop
and
saw
the
promo
of
Peepli
Live
playing.
He
asked
the
barber
-
"Tumko
kya
lagta
hai..Nattha
marega
ya
nahin?" The
barber
got
irritated
and
said,
"Marega
saala...aur
nahin
mara
toh
main
maar
doonga."
He
couldn't
understand
why
it
made
the
barber
angry
but
it's
getting
people
to
talk
about
the
film.
Story first published: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 15:21 [IST]