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Imran Khan says Samir Soni’s character in I Hate Luv Storys was inspired by a ‘famous director’, spelling of film’s title was ‘butchered’ to serve ‘numerology’

Imran Khan shared he was never comfortable with the spelling of his film I Hate Luv Storys' title, which was altered because of numerology.

imran khan i hate luv storysImran Khan shared BTS photos from the sets of I Hate Luv Storys. (Photo: Imran Khan/Instagram)
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Former actor Imran Khan, who has been sharing anecdotes from his movies on social media, recently opened up about his 2010 romantic-comedy I Hate Luv Storys. He started by talking about the spelling of the film’s title and also mentioned how some of the characters were inspired by real life people. I Hate Luv Storys was helmed by Punit Malhotra. It also starred Sonam Kapoor, Samir Soni, Aamir Ali, and Ketki Dave, among others.

Imran shared he was never comfortable with the spelling of the film’s title which was altered because of numerology. Sharing pictures from the sets of the film, he wrote, “I Hate Luv Storys; First, let’s address the spelling of the title, which always made me feel like I was wearing my shoes on the wrong feet. The orthographic butchery was done in service of numerology, which I personally never bought into, but here we are 13 years later still talking about the film’s popularity, so… what do I know.”

I Hate Luv Storys had Imran’s character Jay working as an Assistant Director on a romantic drama. Since the film was about the movie-making business, the former actor remembered ‘cracking up’ during scenes which were based on reality.

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He wrote on Instagram, “What can I tell you about making this film; I instantly hit it off with @punitdmalhotra and we quickly developed a great working relationship. The energy was amazing, and since we were telling a story about the movie business, there was an extra twinkle in everyone’s eyes, and we always cracked up while filming scenes that we knew were based on reality… everybody knows the famous director who inspired the scene where @samirsoni123 punishes his ADs like a schoolteacher, or @aamirali ‘s movie star who needs massive cue cards for his lines!”

 

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In the film, Imran is paired opposite Sonam Kapoor whom he found to be “ethereal”. He wrote, “@sonamkapoor as my costar… as you can imagine, it wasn’t much of a challenge to spend those months staring admiringly at her, playing the part of a guy falling in love.”

One of the pictures that Imran shared along with the post had him wearing a t-shirt that read, “Bollywood sucks”. He said he has many pictures from the film’s set and it was hard for him to choose which one to post on Instagram. “I have so many pictures from the shoot of this film, it was hard to choose just a few… but it’s still plain to see how much fun we all had,” concluded Imran.

For the unversed, Imran Khan is a former actor and the nephew of Aamir Khan. After making his Bollywood debut with Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na, the actor starred in a few commercial movies. But he decided to quit acting after the release of his 2015 film Katti Batti. Now, his fans are waiting for him to return to the silver screen.

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