24-11-2020:While the COVID-19 pandemic ended in a shutdown of theatres and compelled filmmakers to take to OTT platforms for liberating their initiatives, filmmaker-writer Faruk Kabir has no regrets. In reality, he’s satisfied that his Vidyut Jammwal and Shivaleeka Oberoi-starrer, Khuda Haafiz launched digitally. “I anticipated the tale to resonate with the early life, however, because it launched on OTT, folks throughout all age teams reached out to me and informed me how the movie impacted them,” he says.
Since the movie was once gained neatly, the makers introduced quickly after the discharge that Khuda Haafiz would have a sequel. Faruk says that he at all times knew that the movie will require a 2d phase. He says, “The story of Sameer and Nargis (the lead actors) remained unfinished at the end of the film. I had once shared the idea of a sequel with Vidyut so that his imagination could take flight. Post the success of the film, Kumarji (Kumar Mangat, producer) was eager I carry the journey forward”.
Khuda Haafiz was inspired by the story of a real-life newlywed couple. Faruk says that the idea of the sequel came to his mind because of the couple and the various incidents from their life that he would like to recreate on screen. The director has about three months of writing to do before the sequel goes on the floors in April 2021.
While Khuda Haafiz was majorly shot in Uzbekistan, the location for shooting the sequel is yet to be finalized. “We might shoot the film in two different locations,” says Faruk, including that the sequel might be a larger problem for the lead pair and a harder movie to means emotionally.”
Talking about his lead actor, Vidyut, and the bond he stocks with him, Faruk says, “Our dating is going past motion pictures. After a very long time, I’ve discovered a pal inside the trade. Our conversations are by no means restricted to the cinema. I need to exhibit the intensity in his persona on display. As a long way as his persona within the movie is going, the sequel will see him do motion sequences, as that’s his distinctiveness, however best as in step with the requirement of nature.”
Faruk hasn’t finalized the remainder of the forged but, however, unearths that there might be three-four vital secondary characters who’re nonetheless being advanced.