Actor Kunal Kemmu introduced final 12 months on Ganesh Chaturthi that he is turning director with the characteristic Madgaon Express, that will probably be bankrolled by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment. However, Kunal lately confessed that he did not discover Excel’s flagship films relatable. (Also Read: Kunal Kemmu: You have to decide on the correct phrases to say a no, no one likes listening to it)
Kunal Kemmu says he did not discover Dil Chahta Hai and ZNMD relatable
Excel Entertainment, based in 2001, is greatest recognized for its mega-budget, continent-hopping coming-of-age highway films. These embody Farhan’s directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2012) and the upcoming Jee Le Zaraa, directed by Farhan and starring Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and Alia Bhatt.
Kunal Kemmu on Excel’s coming-of-age movies
“Dil Chahta Hai aur ZNMD aspirational thi. Bahut achhi lagi thi, lekin relate hello nahi kar paye. Hum toh kabhi Barcelona gaye nahi. Ye toh bade ameer bachche hain. Inki toh coming of age Melbourne mein ho raha hai. Humey kya pata hum toh Mira Road wale hain. Inka agenda hello kuch aur chal raha hai yar. Scuba diving karke inko realisation ho rahi hai, hum toh gaye hello nahi kabhi. Tomatino Festival mein mummy ko tamatar dikhaunga toh pagal ho jayegi ki ye tamatar itne waste kyun kar diye. (Dil Chahta Hai and ZNMD had been aspirational. I actually appreciated them, however could not relate to them. I’d by no means been to Barcelona. The characters had been wealthy brats. They come of age in locations like Melbourne. How would we, who’re from Mira Road, know something about that? They have a totally totally different agenda. They discover realisation about life whereas scuba diving. We’ve by no means finished scuba diving. If I confirmed my mom the Tomatina Festival, she’d lose it and ask why so many tomatoes had been wasted),” Kunal said recently in a pocast on the YouTube channel Chalchitra Talks.
Kunal’s quest to make relatable films
“Jokes apart. I mean you understood the thing. But you feel inke pas toh sab kuch hai yar. Tab samajh aaya paise se khushi nahi khareedi ja sakti hai. Lekin humko thoda apne wala bhi dekhna padega. Jissey thodi relatability ho. Ye thoda zyada hi aspirational ho gaya (You feel these characters have everything. Then it dawned on me that you can’t buy happiness. But I had to represent people like me on screen so that there’s relatability. This got too aspirational). So my pitch to the producers of those films for my film was ‘Mere jaise logon ka kya? Unke liye ye picture hai’ (What about people like me? This film is for them),” Kunal mentioned in the identical podcast.
About Madgaon Express
Kunal has wrapped up the shoot of his directorial debut. It stars Pratik Gandhi, Divyendu Sharma and Nora Fatehi amongst others. It is slated to launch someday this 12 months.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
