Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam

by Vivek Agnihotri

Reliance has a huge office in Andheri but the meeting was fixed in a very expensive business centre of Taj Lands End in Bandra. Along with my co-writer Rohit, I arrived on time only to be told that Prasoon would be delayed by half an hour. We kept ordering tea. ‘Dekh lena, paanch hazaar se kam nahin aayega chai ka bill,’ Rohit repeated, worried about the bill. Prasoon eventually arrived after three hours and asked that we read the script. Mahesh was always in a 'yes sir' mode. He ran and got four scripts printed. At that time laser printing was very expensive and if I remember correctly he paid around twenty thousand for four scripts. In Bollywood, people shamelessly waste money on stuff that will never get shown on the screen but they don’t invest in writing.