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proud destination for Bollywood filmmakers. The region is brimming with shooting of a romantic thriller titled “Chinar-Daastaan-E-Ishq”. Produced by Rajesh R. Jain under the banner of Shagun Films Pvt. Ltd., it is the first film to begin filming there for almost a month. Faissal Khan, brother of Aamir Khan, who returns to acting after a ten-year hiatus is seen romancing the girl next door. With the temperature plummeting and unexpected snowfall, the valley looked striking. A tete-a-tete with Faissal Khan…
What is the film all about?
The subject Chinar – Daastaan-E-Ishq is based on a super-hit Urdu novelist Khwaja Farooq Ranzu Shah’s “Jheel Jalti Hai”, who incidentally hails from Kashmir and the film too is set in Kashmir off-limits. It is a love story set amidst the atmosphere of terrorism and pathos in Kashmir. It is produced by enterprising Rajesh R. Jain under his production banner Shagun Films Pvt. Ltd. and is directed by Sharique Minhaj, whose last released film was Lateef – The King of Crime, on Gujarat mafia.
What is your role in the film?
I play the lead. My character is of a poor boy, who is in love with a girl next door. For some reasons we part away and that forms the whole crux of the story. More than 70 per cent shooting of the film has been completed.
What about your director?
I have worked with Sharique Minhaj earlier in a film titled Chand Bhuj Gaya in the year 2005. It was based on Gujarat’s Godhra incident. I want to do good roles. He comes with this film story. I liked this story and hence I decided to do this movie. I will do movies only if it has a good script.
What about your co-stars?
Dalip Tahil, Pramod Moutho, Shahbaaz Khan, Inayat Sharma are in the cast. It was nice working with veterans after a long gap.
How much scope does your film have for music?
Salim Sen has provided the musical score for the film. It has lilting music which will appease people from all the ages.
As a main protagonist your films did not had its fair share at the ticket windows?
I played the lead in Madhosh. Then there was Kaboo, Border Hindustan Ka and Basti… As far as the costing was concerned all the films had its average respective run at the box office. All were of different genre and were appreciated to.
The audience will love to see you sharing the screen space with your brother Aamir Khan?
Smiles….. We have already worked together in films like Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar and Mela.Aamir is a perfectionist, a successful actor and filmmaker. If a good script comes along, we will surely wok together.
Looking at your career graph, you seem to be in a hiatus too many times
Smiles…. Yeah, what was destined had to happen, happened. Giving it a rundown…. As a child actor, I played Shashi Kapoor’s younger role in Pyar Ka Mausam in 1969. In my adult film debut in 1988, I played a minor role as a villain in my brother Aamir’s also debut film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. In 1992 I featured in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar. Madhosh was in 1994 produced by my father Tahir Hussain and directed by Vikram Bhatt. After a five-year hiatus, I made a comeback with my brother in Venus’s Mela. Thereafter my other films followed back-to-back. In 2003 I appeared in a TV series titled Aandhi.
Your family tiff and vanishing had garnered you much media coverage?
It was an unpleasant situation…. Now my father is no more and we have ironed out the differences. I do not want to recall those incidences.
What kind of roles you are looking forward to?
The entertainment industry has seen a vast change. Now it is really interesting. I will want to do good, versatile authored roles.
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