Anand Gandhi: Why I make films
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- inktalks.com The brilliant filmmaker behind the National Award winning film Ship Of Theseus, Anand Gandhi indulges us by sharing the rich philosophy that shapes his creative process. Watch as Gandhi explores the ideas, metaphors, memes, and the information packaged in those memes that influence our choices profoundly.
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ABOUT ANAND GANDHI:
Anand is a filmmaker, playwright and artist, deeply interested in philosophy, evolutionary psychology and sci-fi. His first feature film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was touted as the 'hidden gem of the year'. It has since gone on to win accolades worldwide -- the only contemporary Indian film to be short-listed by the Critic's Circle (UK) as one of 15 life-changing films of all time. Besides making films, Anand illustrates, writes songs, plays chess and dabbles in magic.
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To those who don't understand, he's explaining how choices evolved
I have never seen a film maker with this much of intellect he deserves his spot on great film makers.
@SJ yes opinions can differ my friend.
@@20tejas what's the point of having this much intellect if he can't connect it with a major audience? He basically is a failure.
No wonder Sushant Singh Rajput wanted to work with him.
sir myself coming from village area
You're awesome man
😂😂😂
😄
Wtf😂😂😂
Just enjoy ur life bcz there are sth in the universe which u will get when u won't search it.
I can see myself in him..thanks to the entropy of metaphysical determinism that made us think the same..i am a fond of nihilism and i found deeper ways to understand cinema through life and utilise it to express myself...i wish i meet you oneday ANAND GANDHI SIR
watching it for 10th time just to understand the man's vision and every time i am getting something new...
That 13min was better than my 3years of college.
Ya dud
@@amjithashraf6996 I was laughing as I didn't understand a shit. This video is a nice entertaining video so I can laugh when I have a bad day.
Ship of theseus was and will always remain one of the greatest gift to humanity and cinema!! I wish i can meet him in person or see how he directs films it would be such an eye opening experience.
take a bow man. i never saw any indian talk like that. lol.
That's because you didn't get the tough or complex English words
after watching his film i wanted to see who this man is and found only this guy can make this kind of film .He is on a path of discovering the reality of life through films . Glad these species exist .
When the parts stop interacting with each other, the parts stay and the whole vanishes from sight and that is death (that is the dead parrot as he puts in the speech). That "whole" is the "atma" or the soul may be. And that is the crux of the idea that he is trying to explore in the Ship of Theseus which is brought out beautifully in the conversation of the stock broker with his assistant on his feeling regarding meeting others having organs donated by the same dead person from who he had his kidney. He says, "Purje mila kar hi aadmi banta hoga na? Kuch aur bhi hota hoga nahin to purje badalne se aadmi badal jaata" (Organs make a man eh! His assistant replies: Something else must be there apart from them otherwise a man would change after changing his organs). Anand Gandhi made the film to bring out this eternal query of whether there is a soul. - Trying to answer to all the confused trolls on this page.
@autonomous psyche yes
This can only be understood when u have won over ur animal instincts and you try to dig deep into spiritual world.Even I am trying to understand these philosophies.
@autonomous psyche it means u haven't read advaitvad vedanata
@autonomous psyche hey voh interview dekh kar aye ho na😉😉😏😏
@@riteshpandey9932 yeah.
Maine. Bhi nahi padha lekin ACHARYA PRASHANT ko sunta in.
I'm just 16 isliye nahi padh sakta
If you're interested in knowing him and the brilliant speech he delivered, go and read "behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst" first.
Once you become total hopeless...you'll get what he is trying to convey.
Anand Gandhi is not everyone's cup of tea. And "Ship of Theseus" is one hell of an example.
People hate reasoning
@@sorulodu That's gem of a quote and perhaps an answer to all the atrocities and pain in the world.
The Herring Gull Chick didn't go bizarre because of the color on the stick. The chick went bonkers trying to understand,if this is real or not..
There was a mismatch in the Visual Memory & the idea of another organism itself. We experience the same under incomprehensible situations.
These kind of talks are thoughts that plague my mind every other day. Being a hopeful, strongly opposing nihilism, I can definitely see where he's coming from. His intellect is extremely well maintained and deftly constructed. Ship of Theseus is definitely one of the greatest movies about exploration of the self and in itself, exploration of the human nature. Anant Gandhi is a filmmaker/stoic of herculean proportions and he's been making good documentaries of late. He was also the co-director of Tumbbad which I'm not a big fan of but I respect his vision greatly although I'm not the biggest fan of philosophical movies except that of Bergman, Bresson and Tarkovsky.
have to watch it again to completely grasp what he said, but the speech did signified the approach with which he made his movie, or 'chose' to make his movie .. ';)
I think the reason why he makes movies is that he is fascinated by the ability of these mediums to express so much in so little space and it's ability to showcase the culture and thus influence it.
I know it's speculative.
He at one point in the video talks about memes and culture but then digresses to philosophy of everything I guess.
I hope he is better at filmmaking than public speaking
The reason why he makes movies is basically an indefinite answer, as far as I understood.
इस वीडियो को बीबीसी हिन्दी वालों को भेजना चाहिए, और वो इसे हिन्दी में ट्रांसलेट करके वापस अपलोड करें तो मेरे जैसे बहुत से लोगों का काफी भला हो जाये।
won't claim to have understood the talk entirely, but love the comparison of violence in movies with fat in junk food. Never thought of it that way. Evolutionarily we try to go for most energy dense food, which explains our obsession with junk food. Makes sense why people so mindlessly love energy dense media, which is a cacophony of violence, romance and sex.
I didnt understand can u elaborate that part plz and wht u understood
I wanna just sit and talk with this man!
his movie wants to talk about human conditioning n it's subjective propensity to define hope, happiness, pain n our hopeless efforts to control the outcome of our decisions. eg. the girl thinks getting eyes wud bring her bliss wherein she lost art in the process. Same with the monk who thought he knew for certain what was self realisation but then he thru his life realises dat there's still time to attain the ultimate truth. The guy who out of guilt tries to think what wud b good for the donor wherein the donor's bliss is completely controlled by his choice which is driven by various factors abt which the young man has no knowledge or control on it.
I made my friend listen to this sparing the bit where he mentions about his film, and asked her to guess what could be the question to this answer???? She was like ummmmm...ummm.... "Tell us whatever you know?" (Jo bhi aata ho tujhe, bata de).
Wait a minute I need a dictionary ... Oh wait still I can't understand.. Tougher than quantum physics :(
Bro same lol
That happens
When the scientists came in cinema fields
As the organisms grows , thinking grows,as well as choices grows....(travel the world)
I being a 17 year old,and not rich as many comments suggest ,I can clearly understand what he is talking about,
it is important to speak in english and the elite hears it,because philosophy is not for all to know,it makes life complex,i have read many philosophies on my own.
Legend says that the guy who asked anand that question is still in an entranced state.
The World is a Maya(illusion) and Film is a Second Maya, The Reality is First Maya when Second Maya exceeds pleasured heights of First Maya. The Second Maya will also be equal to Reality of First Maya when it limits to capsule of First Maya. Your Film Ship of Thesis reached it.
Never ask Anand Gandhi why he makes films.
First I thought i was the only one not getting him and then i reached the comment section..
I got this by watching it twice :D
I believe, communication is for others to understand....or wait..... oh god, is it my mistake not to learn the language so profoundly ???? btw, is he a film-maker or scientist ???
Just watched Ship of Theseus. Spellbinding stuff.
What on earth is he talking about
Snehansh D K about what's on and outside the Earth :)
Bc😂😂😂
He talked about evolution to human genetics to a scientific experiment. And us the human beings hope this simplicity helps.
Honesty level 100
You're on the right path.
Atleast youre not a pretentious snob👍
Matter after complex unconscious reactions formed life without any purpose and meaning, therefore all purpose has to be invented. Our ideas help us invent purpose and create our choices. These ideas evolve to be denser leading to memory of new data, thereby becoming concentrated memes which are snapshots of reality which are a new glimpse of reality better than old genetic information. Bla bla bla
tough guy to sit with while he explains why he does something unkown to the fact that he will start from the real BASIC.
Sir.. Beyond our heads.. Please simplify the next time for laymen like us. :(
From now on i will finally quit smoking weed coz this video gave me cancer anyway...
Bhai bhai bhaib😂😂😂
I have nothing to say but it was wonderful experience to imagine about reality and its disposition while listening him!
Dude! Dude! Dude!
This guy's a genious!
he must be a scientist rather than a filmaker
No he wrote dialogue for Kyunki Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi. It is nothing less than being a Quantum Physicist.
@autonomous psyche bro he has done molecular biology research in ucsd so fuck off
He is Inducing Philosophy...if facts and Analogies were enough to Become physicist, I am Sure there are enough intelligent Men and Women on this earth today to fill that gap. They dont.
A scientist isn't merely full of Analogies and Philosohocal understandings...it takes more to step into Science and Get yourself occupied with serious Research...
Anand is rather, A descent storyteller...he has this Abaility to question on crucial topics, and hence create stories that Ask questions....
That's not something to be amazed about I think, every storyteller is Supposed to be atleast a fraction bit philosophical...or they are just presenting only stylised visual crap.
Typically today's media Is so dumb and Mediocre is because no one thinks this certain way before putting their Work into worth.
"Do The Needed", Then, Choices Doesn't Matter or Doesn't Exist.
I think i lost my vocabulory and now am knowing that i have to watch this again to understand
This talk is going to be referred to decades or even centuries later.
As an orator he fails, but his films are fucking perfect.
WTF man . I only want to know why you make films. My brain is about to explode
i wonder for what reason people have clapped in between his physichemistry lecture!!
People like to believe they enjoy anything that's complex. It strengthens the belief that we're intelligent beings. Just like Gandhi was talking.
@@MrCephalus I get it, or it is mostly a mob choice, like if one person clap other will without giving too much thought to it.
This man .....is....something else....hats off....!!!!!!!!
yes he is a scientific animal that no one understands
One of the most incredible talk ever
Sir
oh god, save me...
What does he smoke?
Sage, I think
DMT May be :)
Manas Tiwari pcp
Oxygen
Charas
He makes films because he thinks he chose to make films. Good Luck with that.
Delightful! Just like the films.
Bhai yehi baat hindi mein bol deta toh shayad aadha desh hil jaata! I mean it to some extent. The only way this video may lack in is that it might fail to penetrate to masses. Maybe that was the intent. Very articulate, raises questions of immense magnitude.
WOW! may be the question was why the hell do YOU make films?? lol
what the fuck did he just say ?
Wtf? Did he make Ship of Theseus? I know we all suffer from the problem we are trying to solve but this is crazy levels of it. I want to ask him who he is speaking to? again the elite and educated? I am sure even they would prefer simpler words. May be these platforms expect people like him to come and impress the audience. I am sure they would have been pretty impressed by the film if they had seen it. If people were looking up to him, speaking in this style can discourage many from believing they can too do things differently. What about people who do not understand most of his words and the connections he is trying to make? Dude, your film spoke for you. You did not have to come and attempt giving a noble winning speech. OR his whole speech is sarcastic :D
U'll never be able to catch his mindframe....
@@tylerisangry2444 He is an educated fool
so, why does he make films again?
Yes
A concious choice
It is very impressive that he is very well red and have good understanding. I could understand whatever he meant and said. But he sounds very pretentious (read: cocky) because he is just throwing away terms (with specific definitions) left and right redundantly which is quite obscuring his point he is trying to make when it is supposed to make a clear concise point. Further, being a scientist myself, I feel offended by his "UV and radiation" use i think he doesn't understand or he is using those terms to sound pompous or thinks audience is a fool!
It is quite surprising that he is a movie maker and expresses his thoughts and ideas through movie in a brilliant way but as an orator he is failing at his own purpose of expressing his idea clearly. Hail Mary!
All this jargon and BS to conclude with "I make films because I choose to?"
The trolling stones
Nailed it!
+Uday Modi He's not speaking for us, he is speaking for himself , to understand things better, not that he already doesn't understand it, but being a thinker, he'd want more clarity . His 'expressions' ,'jargon' , 'pompous 'words are not pompous from his perspective. He sees huge meaning in them that would induce more spark and thinking. He already knows most of us would never understand. That should not stop him to express his ideas "his" way .Fair enough!
He is not duty bound to make us understand everything.
+Natesh Subhedar Well in my little mind, I had an idea that talks are given to express and transmit ideas to a bigger audience (Never knew that stages are provided so that a person can talk to himself in front of people #sarcasm). And a good speaker is one who judges his audience and talks to them in their language. If he is doing it for himself then he doesn't belong to a stage to address an audience. A person is given the stage to express him/herself to people with as much accuracy (which is lacking in this guy), clarity and coherency as he/she can.
+Raman
sometimes , chaos is "that" ingredient for the spark , when you least expect it,"it" comes to you, after much thinking supposedly gone in vain.
Anand, some less evolved beings down here need you to
dumb down the information density for them.
But you should not do that. Shoud you?
No he will not. How will he sound pretentious then? It is commendable that he is very good understanding of what he is saying (I could understand that). But being a scientist by profession I feel he used some scientific terms from Chemistry and Physics (actually making no/or very little sense in the context he is talking) either thinking that listeners are fool or I am too bright.
Knowledge brings humility and sorry to break your heart but: He sounds cocky!
Uday Modi Don't worry a tad. My heart is alright. :) It is brilliant that you could understand him. Very commendable. But i do not understand why do you find him pretentious(read cocky). Do you find him cocky because he started his monologue with "Life is not teleological" or he used the word "teleological" itself and such other registers which require a bit of erudition in western philosophy to understand?
Perhaps the only jargon he used from Physics is "quantum probability" (any XII grader may claim the has heard of it) and from Chemistry is "chemical substrate" , I guess. If a person uses strong vocabulary to convey his deep insightful perspective, the person is not cocky, he has erudition.
I am sure as you say this doesn't make sense to you. It didn't make sense to me as well when i saw it for the first time. But then I watched it twice and following it I watched his movie "Ship of Theseus", read his blog "Handbags and Lingo", watched more of his interviews and then saw this Ink Talk once again. It was enlightening. I got goosebumps. Everything he said was piercingly clear. I had missed things in there completely for i lacked context. His content is extremely information dense and has volumes of knowledge worth eons of years of evolution. His speech has not been dumbed down for low functioning members of our community, and fortunately so. It is unadulterated and pure with his lucid insights of our evolving life. Yes you can freely say that I am an elitist.
I recommend you please do your research well, which I am sure you must be great at since you are a scientist by profession, before claiming another man's word as nonsense. But what astounds me is you say you can understand what he says and then claim what he says is nonsense. The only logical deduction I can infer from this is you can understand nonsense. If so, then brilliant! And in case you are wondering about my comment above - it was an sarcastic outcry mocking the pathetic comments below, born out of the ineptitude.
Sorry, if i broke your heart. Have nice day and a good new year :D
P.S. Dil pe mat lena, ye sab faltu ki baatein hein. Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!
Samir Patnaik
"Matter evolved in simmering pot struck by lightning and UV radiation" #Facepalm ... Does he know what he is saying at all? Seemingly, you even didn't pay attention to that! And now you guess why I call him cocky?
PS: Dhayaan se suno aur thodi khud ki akal lagao!
Samir Patnaik
I hope you have a happy and enlightning new year too :D ... Thank you!!!
Samir Patnaik
If a person uses superfluous vocab to convey thoughts which make minimal sense or even obscures meaning of what being said then it is definitely cocky. I hope you understand that I have nothing against his knowledge but his presentation.
"Vidya Dadati Vinayam"
Man that was too much indulgence
what he talking about, i didn't get a word.
Brilliant !!..
Me explaining complex concepts to my Commerce friend
If I understand him I would have been the future Albert Einstein
This could be way more simpler
He used way more techniqal terms to complicate it.
If your msg is not propagated its a complete waste. Intelligence is in simplifying things not complicating it.
I wish he had used even 0.01% of the amount of time he wasted in his entire life on thinking about the 'cause-behind-matters' on thinking what people really like or even how to keep people entertained while you're paid to stand on stage to perform.
His thoughts are deep, everyone at some point in their life thinks about these things. Why am I here? what is purpose of my life? etc. mechanisms of organisms in this ecosystem to respond and to store what learned and their eternal responsibility to carry forward this information about generation and causes behind it is very basic point. He just explained it in difficult and I would say rather faster English accent.
His movies are excellent. I wish he could talk less and make more movies which expresses his level of consciousness more effectively.
Indeed he chooses to become a filmmaker but he put nihilism in the center making it hollow! What I understand is, we, are visually sensitive people and we adopt changes easily through vision. Let's say farmer choose to farm to express his gratitude for the society but how much he motivates people around him to do the same? The same means not farming but to give back to society in any form
the audience sitting their understanding nothing. Thinking like what this alien is talking about.
Watching at 0.75x.
Geniuses are like that 😄😄
yeah educated fools
Hum nahi janta hu ee aadmi ka bola hai, par sun ke bahut acha laga
Where is he now after tummbad?
I love the part abt Descartes cogito ergo sum can be said as I think, therefore I choose 😁
He is amazing ❤️
"Bullshit" NOT FOUND!
need osho to argue with him, may both able to compete intellect level to interact with each other i hope... i surrender
And again, why do you make films?
prateek prasoon So why are you here??
prateek prasoon Well that is some pretty serious shit. I think i am just gone stick with jaleebibai
6:42 yaha se samjhna suru kiya
Samjme kuch nahi aaya but sunke acha laga
He do it for memes guys👍
well if i was a film maker and someone asks me,why do i make films?
i would say,because i love it.
If he knows too much,he should also know about the importance of time and not waste it.Just say he wants people to remember him.
Mate, he said that her makes films to achieve immortality kind of thats what he said
***** or u can just say i don understand a word he said
Rubin Mathias yeah i saw the video
Ranjan Sarkar i smell an anonymous hypocrite.
Was he saying something about how organism memorize and react to things they see and happen around them(giving some unnecessary examples)
He could have just said the last sentence as the answer for the question.
He wants to be in this field to have an influence on people's minds.
Correct me if i'm wrong
+Balkaran Singh You fail to understand that the question and the intent to answer it here is a mere pretext, a tool, used to answer much bigger questions.
Is sajian ka taqleef kya hya
Ye thoda simple language me milega kya?? Sunne me kuch acha laga.
appol oru doubt....njaan aara...?!! sorry but pls dont ask him any questions....
Adipoli
He is also a modern man( aadhunika manushyan )
He is one of the best director of all time.
it is ss rajamouli
Ye manushya chahta kya hai?😐
nothing... we should not ask him a question anymore! :|
So he makes movies because it's a choice and he chooses to do it?
❤️
WTF he is talking ?
He does say some interesting stuffs, but it's irrelevant to the question "Why does he make films?"
I think I might even see the film (Ship of Theseus)
you should see it
jesus!!! wtf is he saying man?
Probably the only intelligent guy in the Bollywood except late Sushant Singh Rajput.
i feel i am in physics sir....Mr.thomas sirs class... i m in the class for half an hour..i dont know wtf he s saying....
not a word understood.................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????????????????/
Jhonson Cruise because you don't attend study classes regularly 😉
0:53
Lol..
Sir, Why You Make Films ?
Who the hell are his listener?
Answ: reach elite
I am not rich, if you meant that, But I guess few evolved humans who don't want to make their life about their dress car and house will love to listen to this and do something with it.
@@theawantikamishra you didn't get it, what i meant by saying, this talk is only for reach elite. The level of language he is using is unnecessary, which could be told with simple narration. first thing the title of this video is "Why he makes film?" right, so that means he should try to reach the broad audience as much as possible. After seeing this video i felt like, he doesn't want all the people to know why he makes film, he wants one section of audience where he belongs, he is just showing off his knowledge, he is not spreading ideas or knowledge.
@@shesadevsagria2199 he is a showoff certainly, also when you have to sell yourself as high brand you go for why you are good at, this boy is good with words so he went for it, if he continue to make films he might have some niche audience who will watch his movies for sake of showoff, we live in a competitive world dear, we need to understand the motives
He is talking about Psychology
9:06 it's. Seed to tik tok
isne jyada ganja phoonk liya hai