#MadhurBhandarkar - I was always a film buff since childhood... #DirectorsDiaries #RakeshAnandBakshi

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, right from my childhood years. Even though I would read Amar Chitra Katha, Archie's, Phantom, Chanda Mama comics, many other novels, authors, I was always more fascinated by cinema. I had always wondered how movies are made!

In addition to mimicking film actors, I would go to the Raddiwala (old newspaper buyers) to buy second hand film magazines, and even read the gossip, (laughs) and the linkups between actors; (laughs). I became very entertaining amongst my friends sharing the film gossip I had read. (laughs)

The neighbourhood I lived in, they would show films on the street, on 16 mm projectors; I must have seen a thousand films on the street at night! These films would be shown particularly during big festivals, like Diwali, or post Satyanarayan Pooja, or then on Independence or Republic Days, and of course, during the Ganesh and Govinda festivals too.

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