Exclusive | Did you know Deepa Mehta wrote ‘Bollywood Hollywood’ in just two months?

Deepa Mehta is 1 of the astir celebrated screenwriter-directors successful the industry. From giving cinema the trilogy of elements, ‘Fire,’ ‘Earth,’ and ‘Water,’ she entertained the assemblage with ‘Bollywood Hollywood.

’ The movie precocious completed 11 years, and to observe the milestone, Deep Mehta, successful an exclusive conversation, shares immoderate absorbing insights. She told us, “I wrote it successful 2 months only.” She added, “I wanted to constitute and movie thing that would marque maine laugh. This seemed similar conscionable the medicine I needed.”

Deepa Mehta connected the formed of ‘Bollywood Hollywood’

The movie had an ensemble cast, and talking astir them, Deepa said, “Rahul Khanna and Lisa Ray were cleanable for the roles of NRIs.

I besides formed Moushumi Chatterjee, who had a salient relation successful ‘Water’ arsenic Rahul Khanna's mother.” She continued, “One of my favourite actors, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, who was successful some ‘Fire’ and 1947 ‘Earth,’ played Lisa Ray's father.”

Deepa Mehta unveils it was ne'er a communicative connected Bollywood per se

Further speaking astir the plot, she mentioned, “The movie is astir the ironies that regularisation the lives of NRIs, arsenic we're known. Though Indians overseas are physically distanced from their homeland, they stay emotionally attached to their country, hence the rubric ‘Bollywood/Hollywood.’ The top irony, of course, is that Indian cinema has go progressively Westernised successful code and appearance.”

She further emphasised that the movie was not astir Bollywood per se and added, “It's astir the dreams and emotions of mean NRIs, with tons of beauteous songs composed by Sandeep Chowta.” “This 1 stands distant from my different films. It is airy and fun. I americium usually known arsenic a superior filmmaker,” she concluded.