I'm taking a year off to get to know my adoptive girl

I'm taking a year off to get to know my adoptive girl
Saturday, April 03, 2010 13:27 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Dibakar Banerjee won't be starting another film till next year. He needs to take the rest of the year off to get to know his new adoptive baby Ira.

"Otherwise she'll never be able to accept me as anything but an alien in her life. At the moment she's 7 months old. I want to spend some months with her and become an integral part of her life."

Movies can wait. "I won't be starting another film till next year.I need to be home, to let my daughter get used to my presence around the house."

Reacting to the charge by short-filmmaker Abhay Kumar that the first segment of Dibakar's film Love Sex Aur Dokha is similar to Abhay's short film Udaan Dibakar says, "Of course there are similarities! My film and his have adopted the age-old traditional

Laila-Majnu format where boys meets girls, they fall in love, elope and get killed by irate parents. If anyone should be upset with me it's the person who wrote Laila Majnu."

Dibakar points out that so many Hindi films have borrowed the star-crossed love format. "Raj Kapoor Bobby...Mansoor Khan's Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak...there was even a film featuring Faroukh Shiakh and Deepti Naval Ek Baar Chale Aao...Yeah I saw Abhay's film and it's certainly similar to mine."

A refreshing change from the denials that filmmakers serve up when charged with similarities to another work.

Adds Dibakar, "If you look at my other film Oye Lucky Lucky Oye some shots were taken from the way Martin Scorcese shoots his scenes. It's the way we all function as filmmaker. There have to be sources of inspiration."
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