Children don’t know ACK because their parents never told them. It’s just that this last 7-10 years we have forgotten what it is.
Anybody who is English speaking in India today and knows anything about our mythology has learnt it from there. I remember speaking to Kishore (Biyani) ji about how this is probably the greatest legacy India has. Now when we came to the content bit, we thought, ‘How do we put this universe in one place?’ and ACK was the only answer. That’s the kind of stuff we’re working on for Hiranyakashyap. They have AI, machine learning and so many tech people working on these films. They, of course, have a head start of many years over us.
We got around to writing it and started pre-production and then started looking at how Hollywood is working. We had this story called Hiranyakashyap for so many years but we just didn’t know how to make it. But after Baahubali we knew that we were ready for a spectacle which was Indian. We had some history of Robot working in the past but that again is a Rajinikanth film. I tried The Ghazi Attack which was a small independent film. Earlier there were films being made but not at that size.
It started off at the end of making Baahubali part one, when we realised we could actually make something this big. My childhood was ACK, Star Wars and a bunch of Hollywood movies. Whatever I’ve been doing till now is a continuation of all the things I liked as a kid. What does it feel like to now be in a position to invest in it and even shape its future? You’ve spoken a lot about how Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) played a crucial part in your childhood.
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