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Today is a very special day for Vikram Bhat. After years as a director, he finally turns producer.
"That's right. I'm joining hands with some corporate friends of mine to form a production company. Our company is called ASA Films. My partners are good people and
they've been asking me for a while.
If I've a home company I don't have to make so many films a year. And also I can make the films I want to without compromise.
I can be creatively involved and yet I don't have to implement those ideas personally all the time."
It was Vikram's grandfather, the renowned filmmaker Vijay Bhatt who last had a production house Prakash Pictures in the family.
"My grandfather used to have a
production house. He produced and directed such evergreens as Baiju Bawra, Hariyali Aur Raasta, Goonj Uthi Shehnai. After my grandfather my father and uncle couldn't
produce any films.
So in a way I'm carrying forward my grandfather's legacy. That makes me very emotional. On 12 May my grandfather would've been 100."
Vikram Bhatt fulfils his Grandfather's Dream
Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:39 IST
