Director Sameer Sharma of Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana fame is all set to make a musical and megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar are in his wish list for lead roles.
Currently, the film titled as Jugalbandi is in scripting stages reports the Hindustan Times. “I am working on the script. It’s a drama film with music in the background. There will be lot of music, different ragas and jazz in it. It will be musical jugalbandi between the East and the West,” said Sharma.
Jugalbandi is a performance in Indian classical music that features a duet of two solo musicians. He also explained that the film is about a relationship between two men. “It will be a two-hero film; and there will be a love story in it,” said Sharma. “It’s my wish to cast Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar for the film. I feel they both have a great sense of music. Once I am done with the scripting process, I would definitely go and approach them. It’s a dream cast,” he said.
Sharma has grown up in a music environment which was one of the prime reasons he was inspired to make a musical film. “I come from the family of music, legendary singer Mukesh was my grandfather. I always wanted to do a film on music. I was working on this film along with Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana,” he shared.
Sharma hopes to finish the scripting process in a month’s time and is likely to begin work this year itself. If all goes well, this will be his second film as a director. His debut film last year was with director Anurag Kashyap, starring Kunal Kapoor and Huma Qureshi in the lead roles. The film did average business at the box office.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 7th, 2013.
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