JAAN-E-MANN director Shirish Kunder returns
August 1, 2009 12:32:13 PM IST
Steven Baker, Bollywood Trade News Network
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SHIRISH KUNDER |
| Back in 2006, director Shirish Kunder released his debut movie, the Akshay Kumar-Preity Zinta-Salman Khan love triangle, JAAN-E-MANN. After a lengthy hiatus, Shirish reveals he is now ready with not one, but two new scripts. What took the film maker so long to sit back in the director's chair?
''I agree that it seems like eternity, but it's actually been only two and a half years since JAAN-E-MANN. And that's perfectly okay by my standards,'' says Shirish. ''I have to be really passionate about something to want to direct it. I am not looking at a quantity of films, but some real high quality films that can stand the test of time, and I can be proud of all my life.''
Shirish is gung ho about his upcoming projects, ''I started working on JOKER soon after the release of JAAN-E-MANN. It is a Superhero film in the vein of Spiderman,'' reveals Shirish. ''I have also written another script, TEES MAAR KHAN.'' Billed as an out-an-out comedy, Shirish is confident audiences are going to appreciate it, ''Now that I have finished writing it, I can safely say that it is at least ten times funnier than HANGOVER.''
Having worked with some of Bollywood's biggest names in his first outing, these new releases look set to contain more heavyweight star power. Everyone from Shah Rukh to Saif Ali Khan seems to have been in the running as the hero of JOKER. Shirish even went on record as saying Akshay Kumar would play the lead. Recently, on one of the popular networking site Kunder's status also questioned Who would be a better Superhero - Hrithik Roshan or John Abraham?
Shirish explains, ''I was developing JOKER for a certain actor, who was also meant to produce it. But during the course of the development, we realized our vision didn't match. Akshay was also attached to the project at one point. But his financials didn't work out.'' So where does that leave the director's sophomore effort? ''As of now, I am in the process of finalizing my cast.''
As well as being a successful film maker in his own right, Shirish is widely recognized as the husband of ace choreographer and director, Farah Khan. Although Shirish edited Khan's blockbusters MAIN HOON NA and OM SHANTI OM, the film making couple have no plans to go head to head on the same Friday, ''I don't think that's a possibility. We won't be making our films at the same time. One of us needs to be with the kids at any given time.'' Father to triplets Czar, Diva and Anya, Shirish is still working out if they have inherited their parents' filmi tendencies, ''They are just one year old. Let's wait and watch.''
(Steven Baker is a UK writer who divides his time between London, Delhi, and Mumbai. Best known for his writing on the Hindi film industry, his work regularly appears in a range of Indian, NRI, and international publications. Steven Baker is presently the Co-ordinator of the British Council's Creative Writing course in New Delhi. He has also appeared in 15 Bollywood films).
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