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It is a very rare situation in Bollywood, where in, a film works exceptionally well both, critically and commercially! 😉 One such movie that comes to our mind is of our favorite director/screenwriter, Zoya Akhtar. Yes! Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD) it is…
Recently while in a conversation with the Humans of Bollywood, Zoya revealed an interesting anecdote of ZNMD which will surely make you admire her even more. This is what she had to say,
“I’m not consciously trying to etch out strong female characters. I’m trying to etch out interesting characters – male and female.
In Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, there’s the Spanish girl Noorie and she meets Imran (Farhan Akhtar) and they hook up. I was told to cut the scene from the movie where Imran and Noorie are in bed talking because we were looking to make some edits to cut the film’s length… it’s the one in which Imran is talking in Hindi about his father. And I said absolutely not – that scene was the heart of their little romance.
If you take the heart away, there’s nothing. I didn’t want for it to come across as ‘Oh the only white girl in the film is okay with a one night stand.”
Here’s the scene from ZNMD where Imran and Noorie are in bed-
Zoya Akhtar believes in making films which have strong characters and which usually relate with the viewers. And she does that extremely well! A revelation like this only makes us want to see more from Zoya…
I am sure this brings all the memories of ZNMD back in your minds. Anyone watching it again? Me-Me!
This might help! 🙂
News Source: Humans of Bollywood
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