Leaving Home: Old Monk, 180 hrs, recession & more...
Jaideep Varma arrived at our Karol Bagh studio on a hot May (or June, I really don't remember) afternoon a few years back, with a proposal to make a film on 'Indian Ocean'. My initial reaction was scepticism, accompanied by a sense of being extremely flattered that anybody would want to make a film on us. Now Jaideep is a man of extremely strong views and convictions, and he used all of his persuasive powers to convince us to participate as "subjects". As evening became night and the Old Monk started to flow, the discussion became fluid as well as heated. Jaideep wanted to shoot an entire 'Indian Ocean' concert as part of the film, but Amit Kilam had been wanting to shoot a live concert for years, so we persuaded Jaideep that we would shoot our own concert and give him all the footage so that he could....




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