Directionless

Vikram Bhatt’s fourteen year old daughter, Krishna is planning on trying her hand at film direction. If she’s following her father’s footsteps and taking pointers from such classics as Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee and Red, there can only be one result…..complete disaster. VIkram was fourteen when he worked on Mukul Anand’s Kanoon Kya Karega in 1984 and so he doesn’t think his daughter’s too young to give direction a shot, even though it’s probably going to be a wayward, painful, mind-numbing shot.

We don’t say this without good reason. There’s one little fact that bothers me even as I write this. Vikram Bhatt claims that he first reads out his script to his daughter, who grimaces, smiles or nods apologetically according to how she thinks it’s progressing. Now here’s the scary part. Imagine yourself in her position. Right from when you were a kid, your mind has been filled with plots written by this excuse for a artist, Vikram Bhatt. When she closes her eyes, this terrible circus plays out in her head. Bad acting, bad dialogues, bad music. One day Krishna wakes up and decides to be a director, taking her cue from these side show acts that her dad orchestrated, which I’m sure she thinks are sheer poetry. If that doesn’t scare you, i dont know what does.