‘3 Idiots’ Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra Relives his ‘Zero Moments’ in Goa Masterclass: ‘I Was Very Young, Very Angry’

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who is both one of India’s most revered filmmaking veterans and a self-confessed angry man, took to the stage on Friday for a (mostly) good-natured introspective conversation punctuated with musical interludes.

Though he scarcely needed prompting, Chopra, the dynamo behind “3 Idiots,” “Munna Bhai MBBS” and “12th Fail,” was pressed by friend and musician Shantanu Moitra, to examine the moments in his career when he doubted himself.

They were speaking at the Kala Academy in Goa, hub of the International Film Festival of India, and were treated like rock stars by a 500-strong crowd of festival-goers and film students.

An accomplished screenwriter, director and producer, Chopra said that one of his many “zero moments,’ or low points, was trying to break the news of his desire to be a filmmaker to his father who aspired for the young Vidhu to become a doctor. “The only dream I had was to assist Vijay [Goldie] Anand,” he explained.