He is just trying to make a very good film. In terms of Aamir, the commitment he has, the effort he puts in, he works very hard. People have tried things like this in the independent and small space.”Q: Does working with Aamir Khan add to the pressure?A: “There is pressure but the pressure is good. Conventionally, the Hindi film industry … it's only in the last three or four years that things are changing and people are experimenting with different genres. There's ‘Chinatown' of course.”Q: Why don't we make more of these movies?A: “I don't know. Ben Affleck's directorial debut ‘Gone Baby Gone' was brilliant. I watched it many times and it was part of the inspiration for me wanting to make a murder mystery, although ‘Talaash' is in no way inspired by it. There is a Korean one called ‘memories of murder'. So ‘Talaash' would have got made, but maybe a few years later.”Q: Which are your favourite movies in this genre?A: “There are many. And I think he was serious - I don't think he was joking.
Two years later, when we were about to shelve the film, Ritesh just called Aamir as a last-ditch effort and luckily for me Aamir said ‘I am listening to scripts again.'”Q: Would you have made it if Aamir hadn't said yes?A: “You know what, I had a deal with Farhan - because I needed a slightly older actor, Farhan had promised me that he would do it after a few years (laughs). We approached a couple of people, but nothing worked out.
We had contacted Aamir as the first pick, but at that time he wasn't even reading scripts because he had locked in the next couple of years. In fact, at one point, we took a conscious decision that it's not really going anywhere. Obviously, you keep tweaking things.”Q: When you have lots of time on hand, is there a temptation to keep tweaking? Do you know when to stop?A: “What happened was that with ‘Talaash', was that we had approached many people and it wasn't working out, so I was working on other scripts. But the film we wrote, it's pretty much there.
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The time when we wrote the film, mobiles weren't so popular, so we had to update that. Then Zoya wrote ‘Luck by Chance', I wrote ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd' and those films happened.”And when I was talking to them about what I wanted to do next, I told them I loved the script and could I do it for Excel? They agreed, and that is when Zoya and I wrote the screenplay.”Q: When a script takes so much time to be made into a movie, does it undergo a lot of changes?A: “Frankly not. This was a story that had stayed with us, and we even tried talking Farhan into giving it back to us, but he didn't budge. So we sold the script and went on holiday.”After we came back, we felt we were a bit short-sighted. At that point, we had just started out - this was our first attempt to write anything. He heard and said he really liked and wanted to buy it for Excel (Entertainment, Akhtar's production house). We started bouncing it around and Farhan (Akhtar) came into the room and asked us what we were doing. We were sitting and chatting one day and Zoya said something to me. I would say this was about eight years ago. It was pretty soon after ‘Dil Chahta Hai' came out and way before Zoya (Akhtar) and I had written either of our first films. What looks like a simple car accident investigation turns into a haunting mystery as further investigations show many anomalies stringed to the death of the victim.MUMBAI: Reema Kagti's quirky sensibility as a Bollywood director came to the fore with her debut film “Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd” in 2007.Five years later, Kagti is back, switching from romantic comedy to suspense drama in “Talaash”, which opens in cinemas this week.Kagti, 40, spoke to Reuters about her new film, which stars Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor.Q: This was a script that took a long time becoming a film, right?A: “This was quite a few years ago. Being on his investigational quest and fighting it out with personal struggle, Inspector Shekhawat meets a sex worker Rosie played by Kareena Kapoor who further adds shades of mystery to the puzzle. The case turns into a life altering chase for Inspector Shekhawat when he is forced to reel under the repercussions of a broken married life with his wife Roshni played by Rani Mukherji and come face to face with his suppressed grief. Aamir Khan plays an investigation officer, Inspector Shekhawat who receives a phone call early in the morning informing him about death and an accident and how everything starts to unfold from there. Suspense at its core, Talaash explores Mumbai's underbelly like never before.
Seeing reflections of Mumbai under the red light, Talaash is a tale of love lost, fatal attraction and above all the quest to solve a perfect crime.
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