This story is from January 8, 2007

Lage raho Abhijatbhai!

Juggling between the houses of Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani, is something that writer Abhijat Joshi, who hails from the city, loves to muse upon.
<arttitle><i>Lage raho</i> Abhijatbhai!</arttitle>
AHMEDABAD: Juggling between the houses of Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani, is something that writer Abhijat Joshi, who hails from the city, loves to muse upon.
"I was working simultaneously on Raju's Lage Raho Munnabhai and Vidhu's '64 Squares' then. Sometimes I would stand in the middle of the road between their houses, thinking, did I just come from Vidhu's house or am I going there?"
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Again and again. With Gandhigiri now a part of the national vocabulary, Joshi has brought creative pride to the city of entrepreneurs.
His next two Vinod Chopra projects are with none other than 'Big B' Amitabh Bachchan — 64 Squares and Eklavya.
"Munnabhai's success has had no effect on the script of 64 Squares. The latter is a gripping thriller, about the conflict of ideas. A different genre altogether," says this young professor at the Otterbein College in the US, for whom awards have been as matter of fact as Circuit's one-liners in Lage Raho...
But for Joshi's parents, Jayant and Neela, life remains as retiring now as it was before their older son became famous as the man behind Gandhigiri.
For an equally modest Joshi, even in his newfound success, the most cherished memory is the 20 minutes which 'Big B' took to praise Lage Raho...
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