Filmmaker adamant about shooting in Pakistan

Updated on: 13 June,2009 07:51 AM IST |
Subhash K Jha |

Sourabh Narang wants to shoot Return Gift across the border. The film is based on the cold relations between India and Pakistan

Sourabh Narang wants to shoot Return Gift across the border. The film is based on the cold relations between India and Pakistan

Now that the embers of 26/11 have somewhat ceased to smolder, several filmmakers are planning movies that go beyond the hate statements that the terrorist attacks had provoked.

One such film that is ready to roll is being directed by Sourabh Narang whose last film Vastu Shastra was a horror in unexpected ways.
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Now Narang wants to take our movies beyond the horror of 26/11 with a sweet and salty socio-political comment on the stony relations between India and Pakistan.

However, the toughest task for the filmmaker is getting permission to shoot across the border.

But Narang is adamant. And he's got Rajeev all charged up to start shooting in July. "I have to cut my hair short to play a bureaucrat.
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I had grown my hair long for a film. Then I've to familiarise myself with the diplomatic dimensions between the two countries," said Rajeev.

Mahesh Bhatt's Awaarapan and then Sanjay Singh Chauhan's Lahore were the last films to be shot in Pakistan.

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