‘It was a bizarre but lovely idea,’ says 'Karwaan' director Akarsh Khurana
The HinduThe bespectacled director Akarsh Khurana warmly enquires if I would like a cup of coffee, fretting about how I must be cold from the rain. “Bejoy actually gave us the seed of this idea, about the wrong body landing up to a guy, who has to take a journey to exchange it for the right one,” chuckles Khurana while adding, “It was a really bizarre but lovely idea.” Bhat and he developed the script, which involves Avinash taking this trip with his friend Shaukat to retrieve his deceased father’s body. It was by fortuity that Khurana gathered such a diverse cast, “I would’ve never dreamt that I would be narrating to Irrfan,” he says. He said, ‘If Irrfan sir is doing the film, then my film is in safe hands.’” Salmaan assured Khurana he would pick up the language, and often ran through his lines with him to get his pronunciation right. “But I’m craving to direct some theatre,” Khurana says as conclude the interview.
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