Robby Grewal gets talking

Though he has had enough and more of Aloo Chaat, peoplearound him can���t get enough of it, too. ���I���ve heard of peoplegoing to see the movie a second time already,��� he told us, when we calledto congratulate him on his wonderful fare that was served to the public onlythis Friday. ���Well, I can���t expect any of my friends orrelatives to be blatantly honest and tell me that I���ve done an awful job.So I haven���t been taking their generous compliments too seriously, butwhat I���ve been doing is visiting theatres and judging the movie on thebasis of audience response, which has been pretty encouraging, actually,���said the filmmaker, ���They seem to be cracking up every twominutes.���Being a Punjabi Sikh himself, Robby set out to make���an authentic Punjabi film that was not very loud.��� And with peopleclaiming Aloo Chaat to having a similar flavour like that of a Chashme Baddooror Chup Chup Ke, Robby is left ���humbled���. ���Filmmakers likeHrishikesh Mukherjee, Sai Paranjpe, Basu Chatterjee... are in a league of theirown. They���ve made some great classics ��� realistic, clean, funnymovies, and I haven���t even dared to be something like them. Yes, Peoplemay say Aloo Chaat is comparable to those greats on grounds of its simplicityand maybe realism,��� assumed the director.Produced by MirchiMovies and Maverick Productions Pvt Ltd in association with Red Ice Films, Robbydidn���t care too much for the ���commercial��� aspects of moviemaking ��� no fancy ensemble or item numbers. ���The script was alwaysthe hero. Not once did we doubt its potential. In fact, the casting came prettyeasy. Big actors, salable stars... really didn���t matter,��� he said.���We had a bunch of extremely talented actors, most of who were puccaPunjabis. That helped the film.��� Robby added, ���However,handling them together at once sometimes became difficult. There was constantlaughter and banter, people continuously cracked jokes. Diets went for a toss. Itook the entire cast and crew for lunch one day at a popular restaurant in OldDelhi. They hogged there... I realised it was the biggest mistake I���dmade. They returned to their vanity vans and refused to come out to shoot. Theyjust wanted to sleep. I was paying the price for my generosity and theirover-indulgence,��� cribbed the director, who claims to have had more thanhis fill of the scrumptious chow, Aloo Chaat.