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Anurag Basu is frank to admit that he was not at all happy when producer Rakesh Roshan decided to let famed Hollywood filmmaker Brett Ratner edit the international version of Basu’s Kites. “I felt bad,” recalls Anurag Basu, “when I was informed about the international version’s editing by another filmmaker.” However, Basu’s anger was short-lived. Once he interacted with Ratner over the telephone, he realised that the Hollywood filmmaker had understood the essence of his film very well. “That is when I thought, he would be able to do justice to my film,” smiles the maker of Kites.