Why Shirish Kunder will never work with Sajid Nadiadwala again? 
By Subhash K. Jha, September 16, 2006 - 01:19 IST
Reports that Shirish Kunder will be making another film for his Jaan-E-Mann producer Sajid Nadiadwala has the young director seriously alarmed. "I never said I'll make my next film for Sajid. That isn't even a remote possibility of it. In fact, it's an impossibility."
He describes the experience of making his first film with Sajid as not entirely pleasant. "It was my first film and I had to make painful compromises. It wasn't a pleasant experience at all. I wanted everything to be as perfect as possible. But life, alas, is never perfect," he says.
Shirish isn't complaining about the lack of infrastructure or resources but about the other problems he had to face. "Lots of dates were cancelled. I had to shoot a 25-day schedule in 10 days. Once the schedules began to be cancelled, leave alone even the technicians weren't available! I had to make do with some inexperienced technicians. Can you imagine what it was like to keep breaking the normal patterns and start afresh with people I didn't know?" he says.
But Shirish is happy with the final outcome and has already started planning his next film. It's a big-budget futuristic film. "And I'm looking for the right producer and team to work with. As far as I'm concerned Jaan-E-Mann is a baby that's already born. It's time to think of the next. I need to weigh my possibilities very carefully. When you've faced a lot of problems making your first film, you obviously have to be doubly careful with your second project."
While Jaan-E-Mann is a romantic musical, Shirish's next will not be in the same genre. "It's a totally difficult genre…very difficult to describe. It starts in the year 3025 and simultaneously moves into the present time-zone. You could call it a futuristic thriller with lots of special effects. It will be an expensive film. Therefore I need big stars in it." The next film's cast will also be different from Jaan-E-Mann except, probably, Akshay Kumar. "He's one actor from the cast who never treated me like a first-timer but gave me complete attention and respect. I must work with people who want to work with me. I cannot go and beg stars to work with me. And I can't work with co-stars who aren't comfortable with each other either," says Shirish.
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