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When I started casting I didn’t know that it will make become such a big deal.
He said, "It was not that casting directors were not there before in Bollywood, but what we (new casting directors) can take credit for is giving opportunities to newcomers, because there was very little space for newcomers in Bollywood before. I think the first time I noticed Mukesh Chhabra’s name was during Gangs Of Wasseypur."Ĭhhabra shared that even after he has done 250 films, people still say 'yeh toh Wasseypur wala casting director hai'. He said, "It is the character which makes the movie. Gautam Chintamani, a film historian, who moderated the session pointed out that it was in the early 2000s that commercial Indian cinema started waking up to the fact that casting is crucial, as that's when stories and characters were changing. 'Commercial Indian cinema woke up to the fact that film casting is crucial in the early 2000s' From not being taken seriously once upon a time, in the post- Gangs Of Wasseypur era, it has become one of the most important elements of filmmaking. During a panel discussion titled 'Casting It Right' at NFDC Film Bazaar, which is being organised on the sidelines of IFFI, casting directors Mukesh Chhabra and Abhishek Banerjee spoke about the evolution of casting in Bollywood cinema.