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Anurag Kashyap, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub share why they haven't collaborated yet as director and actor

  Anurag Kashyap, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub share why they haven't collaborated yet as director and actor A celebrated director and a talented newcomer meet, and they promise to work together but years go by until they team up as co-stars. Not many know that filmmaker Anurag Kashyap was so impressed by his 'Haddi' co-star Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub's audition tape for 'No One Killed Jessica' that he promised the actor to direct him in a full-fledged movie. "It should have happened by now.  It will happen soon. I have to have something worthy of him (Zeeshan). I don't want to cast him like how everyone does. There was a book once. We wanted to make that," Kashyap told PTI when asked why he had not collaborated with Ayyub yet. The actor, who also accompanied Kashyap and 'Haddi' director Akshat Ajay Sharma, for the interview here,  shared an interesting anecdote about their first meeting in 2010. It was at the wrap party for 'No One Killed Jessic...
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Big Rigs and Back Roads: Inside the World of Overlanding

  Big Rigs and Back Roads: Inside the World of Overlanding On the eve of May’s new moon, I turn my Tacoma down the roughly paved road that leads into Fort Tuthill County Park, a 600-acre fairground south of Flagstaff, and find myself in a Mad Max-like convoy of drivers who all seem to be rocking Marmot or Patagonia.  There are Jeep Wranglers and Rubicons , Land Rovers and Land Cruisers, Mercedes Sprinters and G Wagons, a good number of which are towing trailers, some towing trailers towing bikes. There are sleep shelters—canopied and hard-shelled and freestanding. An astounding number of rooftop tents, some approached by little ladders. Standing mesh tents—four-doors flanked by ground tents and freestanding awnings. There are side pull-out awnings, those double-sided wraparound awnings mounted directly onto rigs. I see hammocks.  Folks in safari hats and cutting-edge outerwear sitting on fold-out seats sipping from eco-friendly vessels. A smattering of propane campfires—n...
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