“I had no choice I didn’t enjoy the regular (Bollywood) way of telling stories.” “You are trying to create your own way of entertaining people, and trying to find new ways of telling stories. “It takes time when you are not adapting yourself to the popular, classical way of Bollywood,” he explained of his decision to move away from conventional Bollywood films after an early TV career in India. ![]() “I was really fortunate to have got this alongside such a fantastic cast. “This has got a combination of things,” he told of “ Piku” over the phone from India. Khan laughed when we reminded him of his comment at Cannes. ![]() ‘Piku’ does has a rather bigger budget than “ The Lunchbox” because it has two big Bollywood stars in Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone alongside Khan and it is very much part of the changing landscape of Indian popular/independent cinema, a sort of middle road between Bollywood and independent art house, neither one nor the other. It’s funny but perhaps at times a little overplayed and too graphic. ![]() There is some Indian tamasha (fun) around bowel movements and an old man’s constipation issues. ![]() Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur, the stars of 'The Lunchbox' at the Cannes Film Festival 2013
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