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Mayank Shekhar

Mayank Shekhar

Indian film critic and journalist

Jul 28, 2026

35:12
Yeah.
35:13
And so you are looking for someone with a fresh mind, a fresh approach, a fresh thought, a fresh, um, uh, way of telling a story.
35:24
And, uh, the sense I get is that after Shiva got made, and then he, of course, remade it in Hindi, uh, set in Mumbai, though there was not much of Mumbai in Shiva in a real sense.
35:35
You see Shiva even now, you'll see shots of, uh, auto rickshaw that are actually Chennai numbers.
35:40
You know? So he shot most of it perhaps in Chennai or perhaps in, in Hyderabad too.
35:45
There was not, the city was not a character of, of Shiva, even in its Hindi remake.
35:49
But, but that's the first time he met, uh, Ra- uh, Ramu met Amitabh Bachchan, because Amitabh Bachchan was, was curious to see who's this new voice and, and he came for a preview, uh, screening of Shiva.
39:52
Yeah, great actor.

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