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Four stories and one man
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Nasseruddin Shah makes his debut as a director with `Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota'
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THE LAST LAUGH? Naseeruddin Shah is happy to have finally made a film that he believed in
Naseeruddin Shah never wanted to be a director at all though, he reveals, until one day when he realised that he was undergoing "a creative lull" as an actor. "During my early days of acting, I had no urge to become a director. But 1990s fell heavily upon me. I felt stagnated doing insignificant roles. That's the time when I resolved to make a film that could satisfy my creative urge. I zeroed in on four short stories penned by a Gujarati writer, Uttam Gaura. I wove those four stories into one with various possible dimensions. All my characters meet each other in the end. They have a common aspiration - to go abroad. I admit that I wasn't technically steady in this film," explains Naseer about his debut directorial venture, `Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota.'
The cast
Naseer chose Konkona Sen, Jimmy Shergill, Paresh Rawal, Irrfan Khan and Ayesha Takia for his film because he "connected with them" whenever he saw them in films. Apart from two newcomers, Ankur Khanna and Kunal Khanna, Naseer's wife, Ratna Pathak Shah, his son, Imad, and choreographer, Saroj Khan, have acted in his film. Naseer takes "full responsibility" if any of his actors fail to deliver in the film, for he couldn't "extract the act" out of one, he says. But having said all, he says he is happy with his work now. "I am not complaining," he sums up.
RANA SIDDIQUI
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