Mumbai: Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar during the promotion of film Dil Dhadakne Do in Mumbai, on May 3, 2015. (Photo: IANS)
Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has entertained the masses with Bollywood films like “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” and “Dil Dhadakne Do”, but admits that there was a time when she used to not like Hindi films.
“I never liked Hindi films in my college days. I decided to work in the advertising field and then I watched ‘Salaam Bombay!’ which made the biggest influence on me to be a filmmaker,” Akhtar, who acted in Nair’s 1996 film “Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love”, said at the MAMI Movie Mela here.
The 1988 Mira Nair directorial chronicles the day-to-day life of children living on the streets of Mumbai. It had won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
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Akhtar is now looking forward to watch quite a few Hindi films.
“I was too busy due to ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’. Now, I am looking forward to watch movies like ‘Court’, ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ and ‘Piku’ which I have been told are incredible,” she said.
Future projects?
“I have just started researching for my next film and started writing the script. It will be contemporary; my kind of genre based on Mumbai and will start shooting next year,” she said.
She also shared that she has a biopic in pipeline.