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Never Intended To Make 'Laila Majnu' When I Wrote It, Says Imtiaz Ali

Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 Aug, 2018 02:27 PM
  • Never Intended To Make 'Laila Majnu' When I Wrote It, Says Imtiaz Ali
Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, who has written the story of the upcoming film "Laila Majnu" along with his brother Sajid Ali, says he initially didn't intend to make it into a film.
 
 
Imtiaz told IANS here: "When I started writing the story of 'Laila Majnu', I had no intention to make a film. My first introduction to 'Laila Majnu' (the folklore) happened when I was supposed to read a collection of folk stories and 'Laila Majnu' was one of them. The thought came to my mind about what happened to Majnu and why did he refuse to accept Laila when she came to him after facing all the obstacles?
 
 
"I was trying to discover that what happened to Majnu, why did he do that? As a writer, since I do not get a clear picture from my mind unless I write it on paper, I started writing."
 
 
In due course, Imtiaz realised he had written down several scenes.
 
 
"I wrote around 40 scenes just to discover what happens between Laila and Majnu. I kept it aside and moved on. I knew that I do not want to direct the film because I wanted to see something new and only another mind could bring that," said the "Jab We Met" fame director.
 
 
When one of the producers of the film Preeti Ali looked for a story to make a film, Imtiaz shared the story and found a director in his brother Sajid Ali.
 
 
The film features two newcomers -- Tripti Dimri and Avinash Tiwary -- is presented by Imtiaz and co-produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor and Preeti.
 
 
Asked if he has tried to comtemporise the characters Laila and Majnu to make them relevant in today's time, Imtiaz said: "Yes, the characters of the story have been contemporised to bring a certain kind of relatability to it."
 
 
Giving an example, he said: "Sajid has brought in a certain interesting elements of present time in the characters... Like Laila is a big attention seeker who is seeing herself on the front camera of her mobile and trying to perfect her pout.
 
 
"A lot of the ideas and treatment of the story belongs to Sajid and that is why I wanted someone new to direct the film instead of me."
 
 
"Laila Majnu" is slated to release on September 7.

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