Imtiaz Ali on his next with Shahid Kapoor: It is not a travel-oriented film

Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali’s has always made beautiful travel oriented movies. His characters undergo a life-altering experience but the director declared that his next won’t involve travel, which would be a change for him. Right from his debut, ‘Socha Na Tha’ to ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ they have been travel oriented films. He will be collaborating with Shahid Kapoor once again. Imtiaz stated, “The film is a human story. It’s in one place. If I can tell you one thing, it would be that it is not a travel-oriented film, which is a good thing for me, it will be different for me.”


Imtiaz Ali further said, “It’s not really decided (when the movie goes on floors), even the casting isn’t decided yet. Shahid and I have met and spoken about it but it’s not as if we have decided and signed anything at all. There’s nothing officially planned about it.”


Talking about his films the filmmaker said, “With me, it has always been at an early stage where I figure out a city, state or a country I’d like story in. While I was writing [Jab We Met' where there was a girl on the train I kept asking questions to myself, that she’s speaking in a certain way and is going to a certain location, which was from Mumbai to Delhi. So it had to be somewhere over there. It could’ve been Rajasthan, which I was earlier thinking. But the way she spoke, I felt she’s a Punjabi girl. That’s why it went to Punjab.”


He further added, “For Corsica or Prague, they stayed while I was writing the initial screenplay of these films. I had neither been to Prague nor had I gone to Corsica or Bhatinda when I wrote about them but I had an impression of these places, largely from the pictures I had seen or from what people might’ve told him. Or historical details, whether the bombings had flattened Prague or not it wasn’t flat earlier and so I went. When I go to these cities, I take them in my script as well and work the screenplay around them.”