Let 10 Rustoms be made! Pooja Bhatt’s going ahead with her film though it is similar to Akshay’s movie
There has been much speculation whether Pooja Bhatt’s next production Love Affair (after Cabaret) directed by Soni Razdan will take off, as Akshay Kumar-starrer Rustom, which releases on August 12 this year, is based on the same subject as her film — the famous 1959-Nanavati murder case.
Pooja says, “We are definitely making Love Affair. I am happy that Rustom is coming before us. It will help me to prepare for our film. Let 10 Rustoms be made! Ours is an erotic, sensual drama and very human. and from a woman’s perspective (Kalki Koechlin). It is not just about the Nanavati case. As we were facing casting issues for Love Affair, I decided to finish Cabaret first. By then Rustom got announced. But so what? Silsila and Arth released at the same time and got their own appreciation. We have a fantastic script, which I am not willing to let go of. Rustom has been made in 40 times the budget of our film so we shouldn’t even be making comparisons here.”
Pooja adds that the film got delayed also because of casting changes. “Initially, we were to make it with Arjun Rampal and Kalki, but Arjun was expecting a price which we couldn’t give. We have a budget so we decided to replace him with Ali Fazal. Casting is very important for a film like this and we needed someone like Kalki who looked like a foreigner.”
According to Pooja, Love Affair is about a young and lonely foreigner trapped in India. A husband who is caught between a lover and her husband. “It’s also about what is right and what is not. The backdrop of the story is the Nanavati murder case. Yes, we have a court case but that’s not the whole story. My film is a human drama, a woman’s heartland, a dutiful wife who is swept off her feet by a charming man. In real life, there are no blacks and whites in relationships. We can have the same subject but both under different directors can be treated differently.”
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