Therefore to get to know that one of American cinema’s most influential directors Quentin Tarantino has actually admitted in a conversation with our own avant-garde auteur director Anurag Kashyap that a whole sequence in one of his film is inspired by an Indian film, came as a huge surprise.
Apparently Tarantino admitted in a private conversation with Anurag Kashyap that the celebrated animation-action sequence in Kill Bill was inspired from 2001 Hindi-Tamil film Kamal Haasan starrer Abhay.
When contacted Anurag Kashyap said, “Yes, this was first told to me by the Sight and Sound critic Naman Ramchandran. I didn't believe it.
When I met Quentin at Venice I asked him, ‘Is it true that the ‘Manga’ sequence in Kill Bill was inspired from an Indian film?’ he excitedly remarked, ‘Yes, I saw this Indian serial-killer film which showed violence as animated. ’
He moved on to talk about other things. If you know how fast he talks and how much he talks, you’d know why that’s all I could get out of him. ”
Opines Anurag, “There is only one Indian serial-killer film which was made before Kill Bill where violence was animated and that was Abhay. ”
Kamal Haasan who starred in Abhay has his own take on the compliment. “When I did an animation action sequence in Abhay 12 years ago it was seen as self-indulgent and odd by a lot of people. Now that it has been endorsed by a filmmaker of such redoubtable brilliance maybe critics would be kinder to some of the things I attempt in my films. ”
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