He even said that to me.Looking at Bunny, Kapadia says, "Do you wanna, like, do a proper sit-down one afterwards or are you gonna…?”"Are you not comfortable? If you are not, we can do it later,” I say. It makes me more self-conscious when I am talking to you. If it’s like a, me and you talking photo, that’s different to me talking..With a succession of championship wins, Maradona had elevated Napoli to the most successful era in its history and Neapolitans celebrated each victory as only they can — they held mock funerals for Juventus and Milan, painted huge murals of Maradona on the city’s ancient buildings and named newborn children after him. "We went to his house, he invited me in, we had coffee, we were on his sofa watching TV… He was really charming and it went really well, and I said can I come back tomorrow, and he said sure..Naples is the "city where Diego Maradona rose from the dead”, and which, after he brought it victory against AC Milan, Juventus and Italy’s other northern giants, hung a poster outside a local cemetery, declaring, "They don’t know what they missed”. "It’s all in the film — in the film, whenever you hear his voice, that’s what we talked about… He has never really talked about that… I realise only now, having been to Argentina, having shown the film there… there were people there who have grown up with him, who are obsessed with him, have been writing about him all their lives, they’d be lucky to have 15 minutes with him.”Kapadia’s film traces Diego Maradona’s life from birth, as the son born to loving parents after four daughters in Villa Fiorito, Buenos Aires’ shanty town, who took care of his family since the age of 15, but its main focus is on Maradona in Naples, where he arrived in 1984, soon after a public brawl led to his inglorious departure from FC Barcelona.”Kapadia is proud of the access he got and the questions he asked.” Naples in those years was controlled by the Camorra (mafia) which had partially financed Maradona’s move from FC Barcelona. I’ll bring the machine.48 million to get Maradona to play for its club, Napoli, in Italy’s football league, Serie A. It’s a waste of money. So he decided to ditch the camera, the crew and go alone. But… I am not a fan of that technique because I want to just forget the process. And because I met him 4-5 times, I was able to earn a little bit of trust to dig deeper and ask some of the tough questions.”Kapadia couldn’t interview Senna, who died in 1994. I’m gonna keep it simple so that I don’t get a performance… I didn’t want a performance from Maradona. Who do you think you are to ask me these questions?”Diego Maradona, he recounts, was speaking a very particular kind of Argentinian Spanish that Kapadia didn’t understand."A lot of people do it very well.The idea for a documentary on Diego Maradona, Kapadia says, got planted sometime in 2012, when he met a producer who had unearthed hundreds of hours of candid footage shot by two cameramen in Naples. I met him for nine hours. "I wanted to have a more balanced feeling about the character… We are going to do all the work of finding the essence Grey Timmy Printed Iron Pheasant Feather faux fur fabric of the story so that you can watch it in two hours, and then, hopefully, you will understand everything about this person and see them in a new light,” he says. He’s the master of diversion.” Intrusions like cameras and crew, Kapadia believes, bring out the performer in people. I said ya I do, but only if he wants to talk… They said, this time he wants to talk. That’s why, he says, he took a long time making his documentaries. I wanted to see if I can find Diego. It was unseen footage, apparently commissioned by Maradona himself, as a "safeguard against getting kidnapped. "And then his people said, don’t you want to interview him. I took the seat to his left, so that Bunny had a clean frame. "I’m gonna be the sound recordist.Kapadia believes in the integrity of the documentary, has an ethic he sticks to. That’s mad!”"There may not be a lot that’s usable from those nine hours,” says Kapadia, ”but the stuff we got, no one else has ever got. "I met him, we had five minutes, shook hands, then we went away… But then they kept cancelling, saying not today, come back tomorrow, not today… I had a crew of about eight people waiting around, doing nothing for a week.”But, Kapadia says, he realised that "you always have to hang around for people like him”.Though Kapadia looked jet-lagged, he was affable, articulate and attentive.”"Right. He doesn’t appear in his films, and he doesn’t like talking heads because, he says, that takes the audience out of the film. "If he doesn’t want to meet me, fine, I’ll make the film without talking to him.”Kapadia, who says he is not interested in chasing famous people around, decided to do what he had done with Amy and Senna. And I went the next day and he was even better."Well, it depends. At one point I asked him a tough question, and he said, ‘Look, you’ve got real nerve asking me this question.He asked Diego Maradona about the "hand of god” goal, about his family, growing up, his addiction, his illegitimate kids.”For eight months, he and his team carried on working, researching, going over the footage, interviewing people.That’s why, perhaps, for his documentaries he relies almost entirely on archival footage and home videos — there is a certain purity to them, and he tries to preserve the same purity of process and style in his filmmaking. They say it to my back’. Okay. And he couldn’t meet Amy either. So along with a headphone on, on his phone’s WhatsApp was his colleague and translator Laura, listening in from Buenos Aires, and then translating it into another phone that was also plugged into Kapadia’s ear. But just as begins taking animatedly about Diego Maradona, he is distracted by the intrusion of the flash and the camera lens.Kapadia and his crew flew to Dubai, where Maradona lives in a villa

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