Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video director Raaj Shandilya says his movie isn’t impressed by Hollywood film Intercourse Tape

The filmmaker, greatest identified for the Dream Lady franchise headlined by Ayushmann Khurrana, stated he hasn’t even seen the 2014 movie that includes Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz.

What the director stated

Vicky Vidya follows the titular married couple on a frantic search of a CD with a video of their marriage ceremony evening, whereas Intercourse Tape revolves round a married couple who make a intercourse tape to boost their relationship solely to get up the subsequent morning to seek out that it has gone lacking.

Shaandilyaa stated he discovered that there was a movie referred to as Intercourse Tape after the trailer launch of Vicky Vidya…, which is about within the 1990s.

“Somebody requested me on Twitter, ‘Is that this movie like Intercourse Tape?’ I’m like, ‘There’s no intercourse in our movie’. I used to be advised by certainly one of our writers that in that movie their video goes viral on the Web. The video in our movie is made by the couple they usually lose the CD due to their negligence.

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“The characters and story are completely different. Our movie has nothing to do with Intercourse Tape. I’ve not even seen Intercourse Tape. I didn’t get impressed by it, somewhat I received impressed by life and the individuals round me,” the director advised PTI in an interview right here.

He’s already engaged on the sequel of Vicky Vidya…, which might be set across the early days of the Web.

“The place this movie ends, we’ve received a sequel, which might be set 10-15 years later, when the arrival of the Web has occurred. We’ve written the story. We’ll shoot this movie after I make one other movie,” he added.

The inspiration for Vicky Vidya… got here from co-writer Yusuf Ali Khan and the work on the screenplay started again in 2018, stated Shaandilyaa. Prior commitments and the pandemic delayed the movie’s improvement. The filmmaker stated he had initially deliberate to make Vicky Vidya… earlier than Dream Lady 2, which launched final 12 months.

Shaandilyaa stated he needed to work with Stree 2 star Rao for “the longest time”.

“Nevertheless, issues occur, every time they’re destined to occur. The explanation why I needed to forged Rajkummar was as a result of I wanted a middle-class boy from a small-town metropolis. I felt he completely match the invoice when it comes to his physique language and magnificence.”

Selecting Dimri to play Vidya stemmed from the necessity of a contemporary pairing.

“For the function of Vidya, we wanted somebody who had not labored with Rajkummar. He had labored with Shraddha Kapoor in Stree, with Janhvi Kapoor in Roohi and Mr. & Mrs. Mahi. We would have liked a contemporary pair and that’s after we considered Triptii. She is an effective actor. We had signed her earlier than the discharge of Animal,” he stated.

The director, who began out as a author on the TV present Comedy Circus, stated he workout routines warning whereas penning dialogues.

“After I write, I guarantee we don’t discuss faith. You don’t know what issues may harm individuals. As an illustration, if somebody in our nation loves China, he could be like how are you going to write the dialogue in your movie, ‘That China has attacked us 50 instances’. It’s vital to take comedy flippantly, not severely,” stated Shaandilyaa, whose dialogue writing credit embrace movies corresponding to Welcome Again and Jabariya Jodi.

However why set Vicky Vidya… within the ’90s?

The filmmaker stated he was pushed by a want to seize the essence of the CD period and its affect on society on the time.

“In these days, males would sport lengthy hair and that’s why the look of our actors within the movie is that. It’s not as a result of we had been impressed by Sanjay Dutt or Amitabh Bachchan. The explanation why we needed to indicate the period of the ’90s is that at the moment, CDs had been the in-thing.”

Shaandilyaa additionally revealed his plans for future tasks, teasing collaborations with Khurrana, Rao, Kartik Aaryan, and Varun Dhawan.

“We’ll make Dream Lady three however that’s not going to be my subsequent directorial enterprise. I’ve written about 10 scripts already. I’ll direct my subsequent movie someday in March or April, its script is prepared.

“I’ve written extra tales and any of those may match Ayushmann, Rajkummar, Kartik and Varun. All 4 of them have proven curiosity in these concepts. These are completely different sorts of tales from hardcore comedy, satire, black comedy, to political drama,” he stated.

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video is scheduled to be launched on October 11.

(With inputs from PTI)