An interview with Anup Mukhopadhyay
Saibal Ray Centre for Sound Design Saibal: Tell me something about your past. Anup Mukhopadhyay: I have joined FTII in 1971. The situation of West Bengal at that time was very bad. Those, who goes through the history, knows it very well. It was a complete turmoil during that period. Naxalite movement was going on. Bangladesh war was started. Bangladesh was still not born. But the liberation war was going on. While going to college, we used to cross human corpses. That time I was thinking that it was gradually becoming difficult to stay in West Bengal. Then I saw an advertisement for the admission in FTII. I applied for that. After that I took the necessary steps to go to Pune. After that what happened was I saw a new world in the film institute. We did not have much connection with cinema. There was a common notion at that time that people associated with cinema are bad people. With this notion going to the film school was a big challenge. Saibal: How did you grow your...