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By Our Correspondent ©2004 Bollyvista.com |
But you were to make the film with Farida Jalal and Tusshar Kapoor?
Yes. That time it was Tusshar and that time Shahid was nowhere in the scene and that time Tusshar was the young boy on the block. My script needed a boy of around 20. But then unfortunately I don’t know what happened with Tusshar and Metalite, as they wanted to change the cast. Shahid was shooting for Ishk Vishk and they were not sure. Films were not doing well that time and so lot of morale was lost and I could not wait. My story was asking to be made and it had something refreshing and so it happened. This was the film, which had potential, and at the same time it was not the beaten track and the routine story. This is the film, which people are expecting with the youth as the target audience. And when Nitin Manmohan approved the script there was no looking back. We went to Nainital and Dehradun and trashed the script and refined it in to a script, which can seldom fail.
How difficult was it to get the three girls on board?
That was the toughest part as every girl in the town wanted to do films which revolve only around her and not share the limelight with anyone else. I was very clear that I have to balance all the three girls properly as I can’t let the balance tilt towards any one girl as the audience will immediately guess. All the gradations had to be same and they needed to have an equal standing. Soha was doing a Bengali film, Aayesha was doing Tarzan and Tulip had already done a couple of films. So, they were young and they gave that young, refreshing feel and that’s how we actually went ahead. Then the script took a long time, as it had to be perfect. This script was in my mind from a long time and it could have so easily been my first film had Dil Vil Pyaar Vyar not been so ready to be started. It is a very tricky screenplay and very clever screenplay. It was pure mathematics in cinema and everything worked out very well. |
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