Director Kunal Kohli plans to ask the Kapoor family for a screening of his upcoming Kahani (TMK), which also stars Priyanka
Chopra
In the forthcoming Shahid Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer Teri Meri Kahani (TMK), Shahid’s character reflects Shammi Kapoor’s mannerisms, body language and magnificence of wooing the women. He even has a signature love song, which pays a right away homage to the yesteryears actor.
Prasoon Joshi has penned the song — Dil Ko Uff Tujhpe Marna aa Aaya — that epitomises the romantic spirit of the late Kapoor. Also, it's been filmed within the way Kapoor sang his zany numbers.
Shahid’s romance with Priyanka within the film also carries distinct elements of Kapoor’s courtship of Geeta Bali. Director Kunal Kohli extensively researched the workings of the Hindi film industry within the 1960s before setting the Shahid-Priyanka romance in that era.
To play his part, Shahid have been familiarising himself with the arena of Kapoor through DVDs of his films. “I had the privilege of spending time with Shammi saab before his death. I’m very on the subject of his children Aditya and Kanchan.
I’m also very with regards to Kanchan’s husband, Ketan Desai, who's the son of 1 of my favourite filmmakers, Manmohan Desai,” says Kohli, admitting that a special screening of TMK for Shammi Kapoor’s near and costly ones is at the anvil.
Says Kohli, “If you happened to be a tender man within the 1960s, you couldn’t escape from the Shammi Kapoor influence. And for that matter the influence of Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand.
With the assistance of my art director Munish Sappal, I’ve recreated the film industry and Mumbai of the year 1960 on a studio floor. We’ve built the streets of Mumbai with trams cruising back and forth.
We’ve also recreated monuments and attention-grabbing locations of Mumbai similar to Marine Drive and the Taj Hotel the way they used to be,” says Kohli.
Interestingly, one of the crucial filmmakers that Shahid meets for the duration of his adventures within the Hindi film industry in TMK is Raj Khosla.
Priyanka Chopra plays a discovery of this legendary filmmaker.
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
