Indervesh Yogee, the debutant director of Love Ke Funday talks at length about directing his 1st ever realistic new age movie, which he promises will highly appeal to the Gen X of the country.
*So what is your debut directorial movie Love Ke Funday all about?
*Actually speaking Love Ke Funday is all about today’s modern generation and their idea of love. Now trends have changed. Today’s generation is all about the social media interaction on What’s app, Facebook, Twitter et al. It’s a generation of quick love. So the attraction is strong but it is short – lived and with time it almost fizzles out. That apart Love Ke Funday is based in Mumbai and it talks about how people fall in love in this fast paced era.
*Ok! So how different is this love story of Love Ke Funday from the rest of the movie?
*The story & the characters of Love Ke Funday are very real. But Instead of fancy love scenes, the characters meet on the road or the cafeteria or a club. We have added an aspect of human psychological touch to our love story where, for example, you walk in the sun and you see your shadow ahead of you. You cannot catch it so you walk behind it. If you change your direction and walk in the opposite direction then your shadow will follow you. When someone does not give you attention, then that person’s importance increases. As soon as you change your focus, that person feels your importance and walks behind you. Keeping this in mind we have shaped the story of Love Ke Funday.
*Tell us something about the lead characters of Love Ke Funday?
*First & foremost Love Ke Funday has Aryan played by Shaleen Bhanot. His co -character describes him saying he’s done a PHD in talking nonsense but Aryan is more practical than the others. He believes that its not love when 2 people fall for each other in a day; its a mere mutually oriented fatal attraction. He is the flirty kind of a guy and calls every girl by a car’s name according to her features. If some girl is tall he will call her Limousine. If a girl is dusky and a little healthy he will call her Duster. Then there is a 2nd character named Sandy. He is also a flirty guy. We have described him in the movie by saying, there are girls who date him, rate him & wait for him…the ones who have done all this hate him! These characters represent the youth of today.
*Are you aware that Love Ke Funday is already being compared to films like Pyaar Ka Punchnama & Mastizaade?
*Be that as it maybe as per us Love Ke Funday is very different from all the above mentioned films. But one thing is for sure, we haven’t crossed the vulgarity & double entendre (double meaning) line; it’s much less than these films. Love Ke Funday can be called bold; we have bold jokes & punches. But even the bold scenes are shot in a funny way and not in a sexy or vulgar way.
*Love Ke Funday’s producer Faaiz Anwar is a legend when it comes to lyrics. So what kind of songs will be seen in this film?
*Frankly speaking Love Ke Funday’s music is the insurance of the film. So when we started working on it, we 1st got our film insured with the songs! We have some really very good & catchy songs. Mika Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Javed Ali & Jojo have sung the songs in Love Ke Funday. Mika Singh’s song is simply great and I think it will be a chartbuster. He himself is very excited about the song! Sukhwinder Singh’s song is very good, and he has taken it upon himself to promote the film & the song. I am hoping that it will be the next “Chaiya Chaiya…” The 3rd song is sung by Javed Ali. He is a fantastic singer and our choreographer has given some great dance moves. We shot it in Kashmir in the midst of snow. The title song of the film is written by Faaiz Anwar and we all know he has written excellent songs. It has been sung by Jojo. People will love the songs and listen to them for the next 10 – 15 years.
*As a parting shot tell us what made you guys think of a title like Love Ke Funday?
*To be very honest we all felt that the title has to be attractive and should sound interesting. Moreover, the film is about the fundamentals of love so there couldn’t be a better title than this. This generation uses these fundamentals in the film.
