Her name is Sapna.
She has a dream…
that any man who enters her life
should be handsome and young.
Someone who would love her all her life
and savor the juice of this ripe berry.
The best thing about our country is that there are so many people!
And there is room for everyone in this country.
For every single thing.
These films…
started being made in the 90s.
They were made in very low budget.
Whenever I talk about it, I am transported.
It's like being in a time machine.
People go crazy watching such raunchy films.
People enjoy every bit of such films.
Don't look at the screen.
Look at what the first row is doing.
What I saw, I just couldn't believe.
It was like a coming of age, that…
has never happened since.
I'll take him to the spot, lay him out on a cot,
and beat the snot out of him.
What's the matter?
Why is your face hanging like a pregnant cat's stomach?
A basic formula was followed for B-grade films.
Add a few fight scenes.
Who doesn't like glamour?
The same horror stories with formulaic ghosts and ghouls.
The landlord of the village who oppresses the villagers.
He rapes a girl.
She turns into a dacoit and takes revenge against everyone.
Eat this!
-I'm going to feed you a bullet next! -No!
They were unknown directors and filmmakers.
So media never gave them much of attention.
If given a chance, these directors can make
a genuinely good movie as well.
We've asked four directors to make new movies for this series.
Okay!
They are not into filmmaking now.
They don't make films anymore.
Action!
To dispel this misconception…
four known directors from this infamous industry…
are making films after 25 years.
he filmmaker who turned two lakhs into 20 lakhs…
Kishan Shah.
People know me by my name, but they don't recognize my face.
Cut!
In minimum amount of budget…
the filmmaker who would make good quality work
is Vinod Talwar.
If Vinod Talwar is given a better budget to work with…
then I'm sure their films will be no less than
what today horror is being produced.
Get scared.
The director whose films competed with
Amitabh's film at the box office…
Dilip Gulati.
Dilip Gulati. Wow.
He's a magician.
I don't even react to such compliments anymore.
I have heard it so much
that I am aware of it.
I don't have to take award for it.
And in this industry…
a lone tigress…
J Neelam.
When the cameraman would ask me
about the shot or the frame, I didn't know what to tell him.
Everyone used to joke and say, "ask the camera guy to
keep the camera, wherever he finds the clean spot."
To hell with you, fucker!
But here I am.
My films might not have had big budgets, but I at least am a filmmaker.
I want such movies to be made again.
If we start making low-budget films again,
I wouldn't mind being a part of it.
These four directors after a span of 25 years…
are making a comeback film each.
Come! Run!
Using their age old techniques…
and with the same energy and enthusiasm.
From start till the end…
our camera will follow them…
each step of the way.
Now it's on.
To prove to the world
that art has no grade.
Talent is not bound by budget.
I swear…
Films are neither small nor big.
Do your work!
Cinema is only cinema.
Till the last breath.
You didn't get it? Neither did I.
I got in the mood.
JUNGLE BEAUTY
I used to adore Mr. Raj Kapoor a lot.
The film was full of glamour.
It was good glamour!
My Bombay girls!
You can either make a film with a great star cast.
It can either be with Mr. Shah Rukh Khan and Mr. Salman Khan.
Or if you genuinely want to pull the audience to the cinema hall another way,
then you have to bait them
with something that interests them.
He used to make low-budget films, but he had a great standard.
Well-behaved, obliging…
soft-spoken person.
He is a wonderful man.
His work speaks more for him than his words.
IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT
My darling!
Apply some soap to my back.
Please do it.
We didn't have a great star cast
in our industry.
The stars avoided this industry.
Vinod Talwar used to make C-grade films.
He used to make horror films. But his films…
used to be genuine.
Rana!
-You? -You slapped your daughter back at home.
And now, you are frolicking!
The actors were made to show some skin.
I didn't have a good star cast.
I had to make the poster a raunchy one so that I could attract the audience.
DEATH AFTER DEATH
I'm ready to get punished even for the crimes that I haven't committed.
Go ahead, punish me for others' crimes.
Hang me.
But save me from that witch. Save me, please.
An action film would be impossible on a budget of five lakhs.
We can either make raunchy movies or horror movies with this budget.
Kishan Shah and Kanti Shah were the brothers
for whom all the B-grade stars were available.
I am brother-in-law number one.
Four more brothers-in-law are waiting outside.
First, I will make love to you.
Then the rest will come one by one.
You rascal…
-How dare you talk about my sister! -I am not alone.
Brother!
-Where are you going? -Let go of me!
-Brother, save me! -Hey!
-At least meet your lover. -Let go of me! Brother!
-Let go of my sister! -Brother, help me!
Brother!
Mr. Kishan is a really good--
His films had a niche audience.
He used to love making such films.
His movies would always have the same content.
He never thought or attempted to go beyond that.
MAIDEN WITCH
She was a well-known personality,
and she was
the first lady director.
It was not lip-smackingly spicy.
You can label it bold…
but it wasn't porn.
It had hot scenes in it.
That's what my audience yearned for.
People would wait to watch the next scene hoping it'd go a little further
and they'd get to see a little more.
There was a certain brand of these B-grade films which
became a parallel industry in itself.
Right from the early '90s to the early 2000s…
this era continued for ten years.
That was a different time.
I would call it… a golden period.
DESERTED PLACE
The Ramsays were ruling in the '80s
and probably, early '90s, but I think in the early '90s, they stopped making films.
The masses were really hungry to have their regular dose of murders…
Abbas!
…sexual content, then watching the leading lady having a shower.
And there was a dearth of it, and that's when this
new industry kind of flourished and came into existence.
We will not spare you!
-Father! -Father!
Mom!
-Uncle! -Uncle!
It was like a coming of age that…
has never happened since.
I mean I discovered this…
It was like a new universe.
Your name should have been Loafer.
Nobody sells their mother to a brothel just for meats and treats.
I'm warning you.
If you don't leave this line of business, I will destroy you.
I wouldn't even leave a bowl for you to beg with.
I thought you were a man.
But you are cursing me like some hag.
But remember…
crocodile sneezes can blow only mosquitoes, not men.
Be it the vegetable vendors, shop owners, or auto-rickshaw drivers,
the common middle-class public was our audience.
They would not probably watch a Shah Rukh Khan film or a
Hrithik Roshan film in the early 2000s, but they would definitely
want to watch movies about dacoits, dangerous beauties, dungeons,
and those kinds of films.
The names of some of my movies were Sultana Mera Naam and Daaku Maharani.
It makes me feel as if I am sitting in a jungle.
Such weird names were always suggested by the distributors.
"This is a good title."
Suggestive words like Missus, Bed, or names like Heera Bai, Daaku Sultana,
or Hail Bhavani…
But all these names were
very popular in Bihar.
These movies worked in every city except Mumbai.
The thing about these films in that era was that…
one single territory would make around 30 to 40 lakhs
in their business.
Subhash Ghai used to face a hard time in selling his films.
But when Kishan Shah, Kanti Shah, Dilip Gulati, and J Neelam
announced their upcoming films,
their deals would be closed just based on their film titles.
You are not watching these films for the plot or for the story.
You're watching them for entertainment.
And you are watching them for another kind of gratification
which comes out of that style
and out of not taking themselves seriously.
So, yeah, I do feel that, over the years, there has been a slump.
Had you kept yourself updated with time,
then maybe you would have been making bigger films.
But you never thought of the big picture.
They never updated themselves with time.
Our films weren't C-grade films.
It was just that we had less time and we were low on budget.
Well-known producers would shoot one scene in a day,
whereas we would have to shoot at least ten in a day.
We couldn't make good-quality films creatively, but
we would try our best to make a good film.
That's why we did so much prep work.
But because of their greed,
these producers ended up destroying this industry.
All those producers are suffering to date.
Please come in.
Please come.
I'm good.
Please come in.
Please come.
Come.
Greetings to one and all.
-Hello. -Hello.
Yes, he's come.
Yes.
-Yes, Mom. Yes, Dad. -So…
How is everything? Is that Bhoomika with you?
Yes.
-Hi, Bhoomi! -Hi, Bhoomika. How are you?
Hey, love!
I think this is
an opportunity of your life.
I think all the hard work that you have put in
all these years, all these decades in Bollywood…
This is it! I mean there cannot be anything beyond this!
So, all the very best.
-Hey, I have great news. -What happened?
You must be aware that I write a lot of horror stories.
It's finally been put to use.
Yes, Gulab.
Yes, Dilip.
Hello, Sapna.
I have been trying to call you.
Oh, were you sleeping?
It took me a long time.
I worked so hard, and I was so excited about this project
that I didn't even eat anything.
Hello.
Good afternoon, ma'am.
Very good, Shekhar. You speak English so well.
Yes, ma'am. I'm a casting director.
Finally, after 25 years, a company asked me to write again.
They want me to direct it too.
They seemed very happy and excited when I narrated the story to them.
Listen to me.
I have got a new job.
They want to make a documentary film about me.
You remember the movie… Bhoot Ke Peeche Bhoot?
The one in which you were the main lead?
They want to make a remake of that film.
I don't want you guys to cast people for my documentary.
I'm making a film for this documentary.
We have to cast for that.
This movie is being shot on film stock.
Just like the ones we shot on the Super 16 film.
Remember? So…
Do you still have it in you, or do your hands tremble?
Okay, cool, then.
I hope you don't start acting up on the set.
And you've stopped drinking, right?
That's great.
I'm glad they remembered us old-timers for this.
It was a good call.
Could you give me an overall budget for this?
Listen, it's early morning.
Why do you want me to swear and ruin your whole day?
No worries. I'll manage it somehow.
Yeah. Don't you ever forget that it's me, J Neelam,
you are working with, you fucker!
-Hello. -Hey, I was waiting for you guys! Sit.
-Samarth! God bless you! -Sister, greetings.
Bless you.
-Have a seat. -I've known you as Didi all my life.
It's always about her.
And on the festival of Raksha Bandhan, she's the busiest person.
You can't even imagine the amount of money her brothers gift her.
Her bank account gets flooded with money.
I think we should just remake one of your old movies.
Others are also doing the same, Samarth.
Mr. Kishan, Mr. Dilip, and Mr. Vinod are doing the same thing.
Doing this actually puts us on the safer side.
Then, what's the point of me doing this?
-It's J Neelam. It should be fresh. -She's right.
Right.
I think we should make something about women.
-Okay. -Men would also be in the story…
but they would not be as important as women and what they go through.
-As a female director, -Yeah.
I would want the movie to focus more on women.
You mean "women empowerment."
-Yes, exactly. -Yes, women empowerment.
Okay.
I've known her for the past ten years.
You know how a person really is only after you spend time with them.
When you're randomly surfing YouTube and see something,
you don't really know who's behind it
or who has directed it.
I saw a couple of such clips and asked her about it.
That's when I got to know that she directed it.
I thought she was kidding, but she sincerely owned up to it.
That's when I realized how impressive she really was.
She was someone from the old era like an old horse in the race.
So, tell me something. You told me that this movie
will have a rape sequence and other similar instances.
Doesn't this plot seem similar to the ones that you've already directed?
No!
Why? Tell me.
-Owners, landlords… -Let her think about it.
a big house with an old hag in it.
Tell me.
In those films, directors would get the rape sequences added to the film.
But our film will show real incidents.
Things that have happened and are still happening.
Even those things would happen in reality.
We used to actually picturize it.
-Okay. -We will show reality here,
but it will be a fictional one.
Isn't he prodding a bit too much?
-Let's consider that-- -He hasn't even written a single line.
-Look at him talk-- -Can't I discuss it with her?
-Shut up! -What will be the title?
-Why do you both keep fighting? -Ask him what the title will be.
Will it be "My Brother-in-Law Feeds Me And Then He Breeds Me"?
Oh, God!
There were many single-screen theaters in Lucknow.
People would go there to watch films. There was one near my house.
When my friend and I would pass the theater, we'd always wonder
"What kind of title is this?" Saint Becomes Satan.
What kind of movies are these? We were kids then.
We were aware of Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan movies.
But we were always curious to watch movies like Saint Becomes Satan.
But those movies were only for adults.
We weren't old enough,
and if our parents caught us watching such films, they wouldn't spare us.
My favorite poster is I'll Slice Them All Off.
And then the little text at the bottom says "Necks."
I just think that
this was marketing to another level.
Look at their PR skills.
I'll Keep Giving It To You…
My Blessings.
I shared four title options with you.
Bhooton Ki Rasleela,
Run! Ghost!,
A Ghostly Honeymoon,
and…
The Mistress Becomes a Witch.
According to me, Bhooton Ki Rasleela
is a catchy title.
Because we already have a film called Rasleela.
It is a catchy title.
People will remember this title well.
And people will be interested to know about this film.
No one will watch my films if I name them "The Wedding Night."
It's not a mainstream film.
Mainstream films can have titles as simple as "The Stain."
But our films won't work with such titles.
Everyone would think it's a weird title.
Distributors would always demand a catchy title.
So that everyone remembers it.
This faded file of mine can tell you how long I've been writing.
Look at the title, "Blood Suckers."
See that?
Two pandemics have already passed.
I have written the whole script.
If I rejoin work after a long time,
of course, I will be excited about it. I will work well.
I am excited as well as scared about my new project.
I hope nothing goes wrong.
I am just--
But I have to do it well.
I am filming a short film.
The genre is horror.
The story revolves around
two people who fall in love with each other.
But whilst they are together, they come across such circumstances
that they end up turning into vampires.
Later, they decide to kill themselves.
If we could patch that song during that scene--
When I heard it, it sounded really great.
I feel that song would fit in there.
Could you write the lyrics to match the scene?
Like, "If we only had the control to stop time for a while…
life would be great.
We could spend our last moments looking at each other."
You could add something like this to the song.
He always gets a bit emotional.
He always wants to do something more.
He keeps giving me examples saying,
a lot of people get success in their careers after the age of 55.
A lot of directors have succeeded in it.
So, he's quite a positive person when it comes to this.
This may be the last time
-That we get to be with each other -To be with each other
-Our love is an unfinished novel -An unfinished novel
-Because fate didn't -Because fate didn't
-Want us to be together -Want us to be together
Oh time, hold still…
He's such a positive person that he never stopped writing in all these years.
Oh time, hold still…
He always had this fire within him that, someday, he will get a chance.
He was sure that God will give him another opportunity.
And finally, his dream came true.
After all these years of putting his heart and soul into this.
This song should include various musical instruments
-so that people feel the pain behind it. -Yes, of course.
-People will relate to it. -They should!
-Don't worry about that. -Yes.
-Assalamu alaikum. -Walekum asalam.
Greetings.
-Greetings, Mr. Babu. -Greetings.
Here he is.
-The man is here. -Yes, sir.
I never handle the production work for Mr. Gulati.
I just take care of my own productions.
But because my husband, Mr. Gulati, is directing this film,
I've decided to handle the production of this film.
Again, this is all because of the budget.
The budget is very less.
I was too impressed with Kurosawa.
I watched the film Seven Samurai.
But David Lee…
I used to like Mr. Raj Kapoor as well.
He was known for his style rather than his logic.
His aim was to entertain the audience.
That was Manmohan Desai.
-The film is based in a jungle. -Okay.
It has a tribal girl in it.
And her sole aim in life
is to save the jungle.
And there are some bad people in the film
who want to capture the jungle
and take advantage of the same.
People are destroying the forests
and now…
this has become a world problem.
This is a problem of the people on earth.
And the ones who are encroaching need to be punished.
This can be done only by going
to the areas where the animals and tribal people live.
My film is based on this subject.
Like we spoke the other day,
let's talk more about our concept.
We will show a huge house…
in which lives…
a middle-aged woman around 40-50 years old.
And also…
this place won't be called a hostel or an ashram,
but still ten girls would be staying with her.
Okay.
We will have eight to ten girls in the movie,
-and we will have to show their past. -We will have to show their past.
We can show the social problem of Triple Talak.
-We can showcase this issue. -That's good.
-That's a good idea. -And…
we are aware of the Nirbhaya case.
A lot of gang rapes happen.
We can showcase a girl who has suffered from the same.
But won't the audience get bored if they see all this for 45 minutes?
Our story needs to be really crisp for the public to understand.
-It's going to be a crisp story. -If we show an ashram
-This is just a line-up! -and a building--
We have still not created the screenplay or the dialogues.
Also, the audience has become quite smart nowadays.
-I'm sure they'll get it. -They've become very smart.
All these things will be covered nicely in the film.
That's not a problem.
Those films were made under my name.
Those films were known for Kishan Shah.
Nobody would bother about the content.
Nowadays, people watch films by well-known directors like Bhansali.
In those times, movies were known for their directors.
What was the content of the film?
Adult content.
But people were still interested in those films. So, they'd watch those films.
I have written a new scene. Hear me out.
"Paro, when will you fulfill my desire?
Till when will you keep fooling around with me?
Come and play with me, baby. I will make you go crazy."
Hear what the girl says.
"Go ahead and find your mom to nail.
If you fool around with me,
then I will put you in jail."
The guy says,
"Be it to jail or exile,
don't you worry, my love.
Hold it for a while and make me grow wild."
Now, the girl says to him…
"I'll make sure to beat it,
throw it to the dogs, and make them eat it."
How was it?
-It was all double meaning! -Double--
That's the trend these days.
Or people won't like it.
This is a Kishan Shah film, right?
It's a must.
He is what he is.
No matter what people think or say,
he is not going to change.
We've been telling him for a long time now.
He's been like this since the beginning and he will always be.
I don't think he'll ever change.
I've always motivated him to give his best in what he does.
It'll increase his credibility and fame
and bring him much bigger opportunities in the future.
And that's our main goal.
My daughter has motivated me to do this.
She thinks it'd help me gain a good name.
I could gain my lost reputation.
We are counted under the C-grade community…
even though no one really knows what C-grade really means.
We are just labeled with different grades.
Grades are irrelevant.
Right now, it's Kishan Shah on this couch.
If Amitabh Bachchan were sitting here, they'd label it A-grade.
Only the person has changed, not the couch.
I haven't made films in a while. I've been involved in the production of late.
But the one thing I know is that writing is my hobby.
I am at peace knowing that I am doing something that I actually love.
It makes me feel that I still have the ability to be creative.
Not being able to do something destroys a person completely.
No matter what work I have done all my life…
be it good, bad, or ugly…
the one constant was that
emotions always played a very important role.
I've always been bold and straightforward with my work.
I've never let anyone suppress me.
I'd never let anyone make me feel small just because I was working around men.
Because of this personality…
I mean, my bold personality…
I would keep succeeding.
Greetings! My name is J Neelam!
I am going to be directing a new film soon.
My film's name is…
"Shanti's Haven."
My name is Kishan Shah.
I have directed many films.
I am coming up with a new film called "The Mistress Becomes a Witch."
I am a writer, producer, and director, Dilip Gulati.
I am directing a new film.
The name of my film is "Jungle Girl."
My name is Vinod Talwar.
I have written the script for a new series and its name is "Blood Suckers."
This story is full of romance, glamour…
and especially, thrill.
What is your definition of "hot"?
What exactly do you mean?
I mean, she should look stunning!
She should look hot!
Wonderful!
The actors who worked with me
are either too old, nearly dead, or actually dead.
We will make good cinema.