Shahrukh didn't want actors to ape him - Roshan Abbas
- IndiaGlitz, [Friday,March 04 2011]
One thing that the makers of 'Always Kabhi Kabhi' were clear about from the very beginning was that the focus of this campus entertainer would stay on the young ones which comprised of actors like Zoa Morani, Giselle Monteiro, Ali Fazal and Satyajit Dubey.
It is their film and this is how 'Always Kabhi Kabhi' would be rightly projected, says Roshan Abbas, the director who makes his debut with the film, In fact I remember an instance when I was narrating the film to Shahrukh Khan. He suddenly started enacting a scene in his own manner. However he didnÂt want any of the kids to see what he was doing as he wanted them to bring their own grammar. He didn't want them to ape him.
While each of the actors eventually brought to fore his/her own style, from the creative perspective both Shahrukh and Roshan were convinced that 'Always Kabhi Kabhi' had to take an out and out commercial route.
That was a given, smiles Roshan, I come from space of cinema which is commercial with songs and dances. The difference that we wanted to bring in though was that all of it had to be a little more believable. Today's cinema is anyways evolving and being real is the in thing. Of course you can have those huge glamorous sets but eventually I wanted them to live in their own existence. They couldnÂt be fake.
Well Roshan, we hope the film actually turns out to be just that i.e. an absolute original and believable sans anything which is fake.