{"id":5420,"date":"2016-06-05T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T02:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:08:31","slug":"meeting-christopher-nolan-mumbai-dunkirk-tenet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5420","title":{"rendered":"Following Christopher Nolan and Finally Meeting Him in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n the times we live in, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/millennial-tubelight-salman-khan-bollywood-fandom\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fandom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has acquired a dishonourable reputation. It\u2019s almost as if you\u2019re calling yourself out if you admit that you\u2019re part of one. I suppose, the internet has altered the definition of what it means to be a fan. A superfan is now known by the hashtags he uses to declare his devotion for a film or by the number of defensive replies he types up to counter a criticism of his favourite actor. He is a person who is obsessed, sometimes without reason and by extension, is someone who is taken less seriously. I\u2019m not challenging this definition of superfans \u2013 I am certain there exist fans who behave in this exact way. But, sometimes, in focusing on these online fandoms, we tend to neglect the other kind of superfans: The ones who live out their entire life affected by an artist and his art and pine to meet him, until he does. I am that kind of a superfan.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My story began someday in June 2005. I was 15, preparing for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalschoolhq.net\/pmy-197-can-become-doctor-youve-arrested\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">medical school<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and had been a recluse for almost a year. My only sources of entertainment were the music programmes on radio stations and the updates about movie releases in the newspaper. On one such day, I saw a picture from the premiere of a film called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Batman Begins<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I don\u2019t remember what enamoured me, but enamoured I was.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would be a year until I rented a copy of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Batman Begins. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I didn\u2019t know it then, but this was the beginning of my fandom. I was awestruck at how the film managed to drastically alter my expectations from a comic-book movie and I kept going back to it \u2013 on days I was happy, on the days I was sad, and on the days I was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/paddleton-review-netflix-ray-romano-mark-duplass\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lonely<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On one such day, after I\u2019d moved to Bhavnagar for college, I found myself in my\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sacred place \u2013 a local video store, which I\u2019d visit everytime I would crave for company. Here I chanced upon a DVD with the words \u201cFrom the Director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Batman Begins<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memento\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">written on it in bold. And then my eyes fell upon the title \u2013\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prestige.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Watching the movie felt a lot like witnessing a magic trick. It was then that I took note of its director: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/dunkirk-movie-review-christopher-nolan-harry-styles-world-war-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christopher Nolan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A name that for me would cease to be just that.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1568899328-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"christopher_nolan\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54555\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Last year, when Nolan visited India for an event dedicated to film preservation, I found myself in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Mahek Raviya<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From then on, I obsessively dug out Nolan\u2019s earlier works, read up everything about him that I could find, and counted out my spare time in the number of hours I would spend discussing and defending his cinema. I lost count of the number of times I watched <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dark Knight <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in theatres. By the time it was 2010 and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inception<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was around the corner, I had become an incurable fan, so much so that I travelled a couple hundred kilometres to watch the film on 35mm.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The years that followed are marked in my memory as the period that I spent anticipating the release of the next <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/christopher-nolan-commerce-student\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nolan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wonder. In 2012, I ended up travelling over 1200 kilometres to experience <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dark Knight Rises, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the way Nolan himself had intended and reached the only Indian theatre in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/ivanka-trump-hyderabad-ges-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hyderabad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was screening the film in that format. For <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interstellar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I undertook a two-day train journey. These trips were my personal pilgrimages and Nolan had become the only person I placed my unerring faith in. That\u2019s the thing about fandom, you snigger at the craze it creates until it happens to you. By the time <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dunkirk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released in 2017, I wanted to meet the man behind the magic.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have often been asked by puzzled friends, well-wishers, and even acquaintances to articulate my admiration for Nolan in recognisable terms that can be dissected and more importantly, calculated. But our response to art is rarely that black and white. In all these years, what I have loved about Nolan\u2019s films is how <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they marry the sensibilities and creativity of independent cinema with the appearance of a tentpole, blockbuster motion picture event. Nolan is arguably, the most humane filmmaker I know: The way his films meditate on the nature of time, memories, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/ughich-kashala-maharashtrian-dreams\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dreams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and hope isn\u2019t just affecting but it also pushed me to dive deeper to learn more about the human psyche. Art is after all, our gateways to empathy, and for me Nolan\u2019s films acted as much as a window to the lives of others as it was a mirror to my own.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So last year, when Nolan visited India for an event dedicated to film preservation, I found myself in the audience. There were countless fans like me surrounding him, desperate to get his attention. In those celebratory moments, I saw myself as a part of a common feeling that tied every person present inside those auditoriums as one. Even though I got to ask him a question, I didn\u2019t get to meet Nolan. Not the way I had imagined, returning home with the posters of his film and the disc of his first film, unsigned.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>It\u2019s funny how I\u2019d always dreamt about meeting my idol, but I\u2019d never really thought about what I\u2019d actually say when I really did.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s been two years since that encounter. I live in Mumbai now, the same city where he is currently shooting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his next film with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/robert-pattinson-oscars-hollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Pattinson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Dimple Kapadia, and John David Washington. And there was no way I\u2019d let this opportunity pass. But what if I am met with disappointment again? I was reluctant until a friend convinced me that it was probably my only chance to have my personalised Nolan moment. I clung to the idea like a hopeless addict.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So last Saturday, we travelled to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/long-distance-mumbai-monsoon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colaba<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to watch the shoot. As we got off the taxi in front of Regal cinema while being semi-engrossed in banal banter, I glanced across and saw a man in a blue shirt and black trousers walking toward us from across the street. It took me not more than a fraction of a second to realise that this man is no one but Nolan himself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not wasting a second, we approached him. I fumbled when I tried requesting him for a picture but somehow managed to catch his attention. Nolan, the man who meant so much to my life, stopped in front of me and asked \u201cYes?\u201d I froze. It\u2019s funny how I\u2019d always dreamt about meeting my idol, but I\u2019d never really thought about what I\u2019d actually say when I really did. I guess, I\u2019d assumed that meeting Nolan would always remain outside my reach. But here I was.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the next few seconds, I gathered myself and introduced myself to him. I told him how much I have admired his work and how I have travelled thousands of kilometres to see his films in the format he intended them to be seen. I spoke and he listened earnestly. And then when we were talking about whether there were any working film projectors in the country, he caught me off-guard by asking, \u201cWould you like to take a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/photograph-ritesh-batra-nawazuddin-siddiqui-sanya-malhotra\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">photograph<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d That moment felt surreal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I was trying to process this miracle, I realised that we were standing opposite Regal, an age-old cinema hall that is in danger of being demolished. It\u2019s perhaps fitting that it is in this backdrop that I talked to Nolan about preserving the traditions of cinema. When I think about it, the strangest thing is that now that this dream of mine is real, the memories of this reality feels like a dream again. I guess I should spin my totem, just to be sure.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an incurable Christopher Nolan fan; I took a two-day train journey to watch Interstellar, the way he wanted us to. I never thought I\u2019d really meet him. 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