New Delhi:
Oscar-winning producer Guneet Monga recently sat down for an interview with NDTV and talked about his working relationship with Karan Johar and Dharma Productions. ICYDK, Guneet and KJo came back together for projects like Lunchbox, Kill and Gyaarah Gyaarah. He said, “I only have one word for Karan and Dharma and that is empowering. He’s empowering as hell and the faith he’s shown in me. It all started when I approached him at a dinner in Cannes in 2013. was there with The Lunchbox, and he was there with Bombay Talkies It was the 100th year of Indian cinema and I had also produced Murabba.
At dinner, I walked over to his table and said, ‘Hi Karan, this is Guneet. I am a producer working with Anurag Kashyap. I have made a film which is getting a lot of attention here but we don’t have distribution in India. Do you think you could distribute the film? He said, “Okay, why don’t you come and show me a movie?” I asked for her phone number and replied, “Are you sure this isn’t your secretary’s number?” He assured me, ‘No, this is my number. Call me when you are back in India.
“The next day I texted him, we were at an award ceremony in Cannes and I told him I’d love to host a screening for him. So we did, and after the screening he came out with tears in his eyes and said, ‘I love it.’ That moment changed the trajectory of cinema in India. The reason that according to The Lunchbox became so popular is his role that he has ever seen Nero that I just observed and learned from him. He turned around all the negative stories of The Lunchbox that told me, “It has no songs, you played by older actors, it’s too much. English in film, how do you promote this? But Karan and Dharma turned all those narratives on their head and I learned so much from them, he added.
Guneet Monga concluded, “For the past decade, Apoorva, Karan and I had been talking about working together, and The Killing happened after one such meeting. Karan is an absolute cinephile, and he said, ‘Let’s do this – it’s a genre that’s never been done in India. , and I would like to bring a comprehensive extreme film to the public.”
