about this boy vicky and a doctor i was a bit taken aback i knew juhi as she had written the dialogues for shoebite then i thought it over all night and kept smiling thats the best part the idea brought a smile to my lips and i thought about how to project this on screen so that people laugh the only way was to resort to innocence next morning i called her up and said lets start scripting if a girl could give me the idea i thought it was about time to make a film on sperm donation i am not sure whether i would have done the film had a boy given me the idea juhi and i would talk about bizarre things as the script demanded them sperm donation can bring visuals to your mind that are outright dirty vulgar and even unhygenic we thought well be on a straight path and avoid being gross and we got really excited when we saw ayushmann i was mighty impressed by the way he spoke to me the first time we met the moment i saw him i cast him then and there i called up john abraham and he came down for half an hour and said im done ayushmanns endearing factor worked to the films advantage nowhere did he look dirty as a sperm donordid ayushmann tell you that he had donated sperm before coming on board the film yes yes he told me that later he had to go to allahabad as part of roadies where donating sperm was one his tasks i didnt know about it when he came on board i later told him achha bhalo korechhish but the biggest surprise was when he sang it was at a workshop when i asked him if he could sing he said he would sing regularly in college paani da rang is not just his composition but the lyrics too are by him and of course he sang it whatever struck me i made the most of it while filming my delhi friends all of whom were struggling in mumbai i told them chol music kor shantanu moitra is my friend and i told him that i was taking a drastic step he too knows all these friends he had just done aparajita tumi while the bengali film was happening we started the preproduction work for vicky donor it was more like amateur theatre i would just say tui chole aye tui kor i didnt think of it it was more of having fun while working togethervicky donor garnered 13 crore in the first weekend sujoy ghoshs kahaani too was a huge success up next is dibakar banerjees shanghai is it a coincidence that all the bengali filmmakers are going great guns in bollywood i wont call it a coincidence bengalis always had that drive cinema and theatre run in our blood both dibakar and i used to assist pradeep sarkar in delhi and shantanu