The Beginning of a New End

“It’s an anti rom com,a revenge story of one night. It’s on a timer,for everything must happen before sunrise and that makes the film quick in execution and the audience won’t get a chance to get bored,” says Bumpy,clearing rumours that it’s not a ripoff of Hollywood flick John Tucker Must Die. “Taaha’s character,Luv Nanda,is 18 and at that age we do stupid things,” says Bumpy. Shah chips in how the film is all about “girl power” and they are after him,“the college Casanova”. “It has an Axe your Ex and MTV Bakra feel to it,” he adds. With his Mutton song streaming on TV channels,Shah has also become a ‘hot item’ overnight. Trained in contemporary,funk and jazz,he borrowed Shakira’s ‘hips don’t lie’ moves for this song. “Being a guy,I know what guys like,” says the Dubai import who is working on his Hindi diction by reading Class V Hindi storybooks.

Daughter of Shakti Kapoor,Shraddha says,“I just believe in girl power.” In the profession for the “sheer magic and madness it provides”,like Shah,she has signed a three-movie deal with YRF and wants to do films revolving around the younger generation. “I want to graduate slowly from dungarees to sarees,” she says.

Bumpy,meanwhile,points out that the movie has all the masala. “It is bizarre,hilarious,snappily edited and funny,” he observes. “It may look or feel niche,but with its twists,song,dance,it’s targeting the masses with its sensibility,” adds Bumpy,who never watches television but still made it big. He opted for films,giving the bookworm in him a backseat. “It was a paid vacation,” quips Bumpy,who was approached by YRF for this project. “I was nervous when I stepped onto the fourth floor of YRF office.

They have this huge Buddha statue there and it instantly calmed me. I knew this was it,” recalls Bumpy.

While the books and music lover banks on his gut feeling,he also reflects on life for inspiration. “I’m a lazy person and I don’t want to make niche or festival films,” says he. Movies do amuse him because,at times,they are “unreal and unbelievable”. “Forty-year-olds essay the role of 18-year-olds,but in our movie we have 22-year-olds playing 18,that makes it real,” says he.