How Hollywood stalwarts acknowledged Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Broken Horses

The most general thought that crosses the minds of a regular cinema lover is why someone like Vidhu Vinod Chopra with the credentials of films like 1942 A Love Story and Parinda doesn’t really make films anymore. The director had last made Eklavya: The Royal Guard back in 2007. What amused most viewers during the screening of PK was the impressive trailer of Vidhu’s first Hollywood directorial venture Broken Horses.

The American-Mexican film which is entirely based on the border tension of the two states, doesn’t really have any prominent Indian name attached to it besides director Vidhu Vinod Chopra and co-writer Abhijat Joshi. An eye catching element that the viewers found during the trailers were the words of supreme acknowledgment by Hollywood iconic filmmakers like James Cameron and Alfonso Cuaron. Vidhu shared his part of the story as how he was able to win over the stalwarts of Hollywood and gain such a vital piece of appreciation.

“Nobody knew me there. I wrote the script with Abhijat Joshi and when I circulated it in the industry, one day, James Cameron called me and copiously praised the script and asked who has written it. When I said he was talking to the co-writer he was surprised and asked then why didn’t you put your name on it. I said had we put our names nobody would have taken us seriously in the U.S. They would have asked how much these Bollywood guys know about issues on US-Mexican border. I would have been judged and he laughed,” Chopra narrated. Broken Horses is scheduled to release in April next year worldwide. Let’s see if the long gap was worth enough that Vidhu kept us with.