The second trailer of Mirzya is intriguing and makes us switch between different eras, watch video

“I found the story line very interesting with a very strong female protagonist. What happens in the story is, when the time comes, Sahiba, she breaks Mirzya’s arrows. So he is unable to defend himself and in the process, is killed. Then the director would come on stage at the end of the play and ask the question why did Sahiba break the arrows? That question kind of stayed with me for the longest time. It’s almost been 35 years since I have been out of college. So somethings stay in your subconscious… stories that you have heard and you always want to find their meaning, you want to dwell on them to re tell them.. so I went to Gulzar bhai and I asked him, Gulzar bhai Sahiba ne teer kyun todein the? ( Gulzar bhai why did Sahiba break the arrows?) So he said bachu woh toh tum Sahiba se jakey puncho ( kid, why don’t you go and ask Sahiba about it? ) I said Guzar bhai Sahiba toh mil nahi rahi hain..bahut dhoondh raha hun main kab se, aap hi bata dijiye. (Gulzar bhai, I can’t find Sahiba, I am searching for her for a long time…why don’t you tell me.) He had a twinkle in his eyes and he understood the journey I wanted to go down, what I was actually asking him is let’s go and discover this piece called love. Why is falling in love so illogical, so irrational it doesn’t have any reason to it? looking at Sahiba’s act why do we hurt people the most whom we love the most. That’s the journey I went into.. trying to find out why did Sahiba break the arrows,” Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra said during the exclusive chat.

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Switching from one era to another, the second trailer of Mirzya which released today, looks like the film will recite a tale of love which has been missing from the kind of films made in Bollywood for quite some time.

In Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Mirzya, Gulzar writes, Sab milta hai duniya bhar ko/ Aashiq ko sab kab milta hai and proves that there are still very few who are capable of surpassing his unbridled lyricism.

Starring Harshvardhan Kapoor, son of actor Anil Kapoor, Saiyami Kher and Anuj Chaudhary, the film takes us back into the hinterland Rajasthan. As the film switches between gone era and current times, we get both the glimpses of a man firing arrows and riding a bike.

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“In my film, we play out the folklore, as such, so there’s one part of the story and then the folklore in a way kind of resonates and echoes and lands on today’s time… you know the essence of it. And mostly it plays out, I would say like a good 70% of it plays out now in contemporary Rajasthan ( in 2016) with contemporary actors,” said the Rang De Basanti director.

Mirzya is set to release on October 7.