Sriram Raghavan - Film Companion

7 min

Using Old Songs in New Films is an Underrated Art, and Overpriced

Posted on August 1, 2020August 1, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Directors and screenwriters like to use popular old songs as references in their work. But one song can cost more than the budget of the entire secondary cast of your film (or web series)

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6 min

How Star Bestsellers Gave Sriram Raghavan, Anurag Kashyap Their Start

Posted on July 6, 2020July 10, 2020
by Gayle Sequeira

Several directors and actors got their start on the show between 1999 and 2000, till dwindling TRPs led to its cancellation

Sriram Raghavan looks back at his wacky FTII diploma film, The Eight Column Affair (1987)

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7 min

Sriram Raghavan Looks Back At His Wacky FTII Diploma Film

Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020
by Baradwaj Rangan

With Rajkumar Hirani as editor, Shiv Subramaniam as the lead and Nana Patekar in a knife-wielding cameo, this short won the National Award for Best Short Fiction Film.

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5 min

First Shot Last Shot: Sriram Raghavan’s Badlapur

Posted on April 27, 2020June 12, 2020
by Gayle Sequeira

The director talks about the opening and ending scenes of his 2015 revenge drama, starring Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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4 min

Memories of the Movie Theatre: AndhaDhun, a Film for Everyone

Posted on April 12, 2020May 9, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

The lockdown has only meant that we are craving for something we can’t have right now: Going to the movies

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11 min

30 Films Sriram Raghavan Wants Everyone To Watch

Posted on November 26, 2019June 9, 2020
by Team FC

From Alfred Hitchcock’s spy movie Notorious to the lovely romance of Vijay Anand’s Kala Bazar – here are the best films the director’s watched

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3 min

25 Greatest Hindi Films Of The Decade – 6 Filmmakers On Their Goals For The Next ...

Posted on November 19, 2019May 13, 2020
by Team FC

We asked filmmakers Maneesh Sharma, Zoya Akhtar, Sriram Raghavan, Anurag Kashyap, Shoojit Sircar and Shakun Batra what the future holds

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8 min

The Mystery Ending And More – Sriram Raghavan Answers Everything You Need To Know...

Posted on August 10, 2019May 13, 2020
by Mohini Chaudhuri

The filmmaker and his co-writer and editor Pooja Ladha Surti throw light on the various fan theories around the thriller

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3 min

Sriram Raghavan On Why He Chose Not To Rehearse For AndhaDhun’s Crucial Murder Scene

Posted on April 29, 2019May 11, 2020
by Team FC

The director details what went into planning and executing one of the film’s most celebrated scenes and why shooting in the day was essential

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11 min

Focus Group Screenings: Whose Cut Is It Anyway?

Posted on April 1, 2019May 7, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Test screenings – that employ state of the art market research methods – are fast becoming a part of the commercial Hindi filmmaking process. Studios seem to want it. But directors, not so much