Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali attended master class at IIFTC tourism impact along with Kunal Kohli, Tarun Mansukhani and few foreign filmmakers from Portugal and Prague on Saturday in Mumbai. During media interaction, Imtiaz stated film shoot is difficult in places which are bureaucratic and where people are not positive.
When asked Imtiaz where does he think film shoots is difficult, he said, “Shooting is difficult in places which are bureaucratic and where people are not positive. I haven’t faced many difficulties on that front but when we face issues while shooting in certain area then we have to rely a lot on our line producers to help us out from that situation”
Talking about attending master class at IIFTC tourism impact, Imtiaz said, “It’s always good interact with film people from different parts of the world because you get to learn a lot and you get to see how they think about cinema and how they work to make it best in their way. Every time, I have gone out shooting has been a learning experience so it was really nice coming here and it was nice to talk, take questions from people from different nations and to interact with them”
When asked Imtiaz whether shooting in India is problematic as compared with foreign locations, he said, “I think just like foreign locations, Indian locations are putting up for instance the Gujarat or Delhi stalls here so IIFTC doesn’t only mean foreign location. It is about any locations that now are now pitching up. I can see that different states of the country are getting up, making film policies and making it easier so now there is one window kind of shooting is so I don’t think that shooting in India is very difficult. Of course, we being Indian have natural advantage to shoot it but even for other people I think the government is doing a lot to make it easier”
When asked Imtiaz in which countries he has good experience shooting a film, he said, “I had really good experience shooting for films in so many countries including Prague, Czech Republic, Portugal, and Corsica so overall, it has been really nice experience. I have shot for my films in Delhi and Kashmir lot of times so it feels nice to shoot in our country as well”
Imtiaz Ali and Ekta Kapoor are teaming up to retell the evergreen tale of Laila Majnu. The director and producer are going to launch a set of newcomers with a contemporary version of the love story. Imtiaz’s brother Sajid Ali will make his directorial debut with this film, with a script written by Imtiaz himself, talking about ‘Laila Majnu’, Imtiaz said, “Shoot of ‘Laila Majnu’ has been completed. I am not directing ‘Laila Majnu’. It has been directed by my brother Sajid (Ali) and the entire film has been shot in Kashmir and there are no foreign locations in it.”
When asked Imtiaz whether think Indian media is being ignorant about Syrian crisis since last few days he said, ‘What is happening in Syria is dismal and it’s very questioning. I don’t have large presence on social media so I don’t follow who’s is saying what on twitter. I chiefly read newspapers so I don’t know whether people not saying anything about Syria but I do know that there is group of Sikhs in Syria and working over there for upliftment of people and hat’s off to them. I would encourage everybody to bring to the notice of everybody else what is happening there but people should do it in meaningful manner and should not fake it or to make themselves look better”
Imtiaz Ali last venture ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ featuring Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma received mixed response from critics and audience.
