Anurag: I was in Delhi in 1993 when there was film festival IFFI where I saw films, packed my bags and left for Mumbai. Mumbai was strange, it was a kind of city that had never seen before. I lived on the streets, did theatre for Prithvi, started writing and the break came pretty soon since I wrote a play that became a cult hit that somebody saw and gave me a short film to write for Shyom Nayar who eventually ended up directing Ahista Ahista. I wrote that short film on Auto shankar. that got recognised and Ramu saw it and gave me Satya.

Shubhra Gupta: Ram Gopal Varma keeps saying that he doesn't give people breaks but I think he actually does and only for his own good. So, what happened after Satya.

Anurag: Things kept happening after Satya. I wrote Kaun, Shool, started doing dialogues as pretty early I realised that when you write a script, it doesn't remain the same when it goes onto the screen. To avoid that heartbreak I started writing only dialogues. I'll said I'll only do dialogues and whatever else I had to do and to detach myself from the film. Then I was working on water and Mission Kashmir simultaneously. There was a problem with Mission Kashmir. I disagreed with the whole politics of the film and I walked out . Then I did Water and there was some problem with it. It was a frustrating time.

Rahul: I was into advertising making documentaries, made a film called kehta hai dil baar baar while I was doing this the riots happened in Gujarat where a friend of mine friend lost his son. I thought it was time for me to make a statement. After five years it has been released.

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