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Mumbai: After two back-to-back candyfloss romances in "Kal Ho Naa Ho" and "Salaam-e-Ishq," and in the process of shooting the action movie "Made In China," Nikhil Advani plans to romance realism on the big screen next. "It is the story of an 11-year-old boy in a remand home that my wife works in. When she told me this boy's harrowing and tragic story I suggested we make a film on it," Advani said. "My wife, who is with several charitable organisations, including Aangan, has warned me that it can have no music and songs. And since everything I do in my life and career is to please my wife, I've no choice but to comply."
The film is not going to be a mega budget movie, according to Advani. "I want to make a small budget film. I always say that but I end up making big films. But this time I mean it. I want to tell a very personal story that has been waiting within me to be told for a while. After the sugar-candy love and romance of 'Salaam-e-Ishq,' I've had enough flights of fantasy for a long time. Since it had six love stories woven into one, it was like making six different romantic films. Now I need to get back to earth."
Nikhil Advani saves his side saying that this untitled film will not be a dry documentary-like tale. "It will have music but no songs. I want to do it in one schedule. It's a story that needs to be told," he said.
Interestingly, the director has found the boy to play the 11-year-old protagonist. "But he isn't the boy whose story is being told in my film," Advani said. "He is another boy in the remand home whom I saw performing at the play. Basically, I want to put forward the theme that a kid who kills someone and the one who has just run away from home should not be categorised as equally culpable and put in a remand home. The environment hardens them irrevocably. Organisations such as the one my wife works for provides therapy to delinquent children through music, drama, storytelling, films." (IANS) |
