In a time when cinemagoers cross to theatres handiest to garner that larger-than-life enjoy with action-packed and VFX-heavy motion pictures, Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It? comes as a breath of unpolluted air. The Shabana Azmi and Emma Thompson-starrer, with a screenplay by means of Jemima Khan, was once launched within the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia in February. The cross-cultural romantic comedy this is set to unlock in India in March opened to nice appreciation at world film gala’s.
The reaction didn’t come as a wonder to Kapur and Azmi, regardless of the discharge of a Hollywood big-wig—Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. After lacking the London première, Azmi attended the Toronto Film Festival. “We got two standing ovations [at TTF]. At the Jeddah Film Festival, the press gave us good reviews,” says the actor, including that the film did well in the United Kingdom. “It is a lovely film about identities [made] with a lot of heart. I am keeping my fingers crossed that people in India like it too.” Kapur, who returns to route 16 years after his film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, says, “As a filmmaker, when you are working creatively, intensely and passionately, you have to assume that your passion and emotions will be shared by the audiences too. My films have always been appreciated at the film festivals and with the theatre audiences—whether it is Masoom, Mr India, Elizabeth, Four Feather or What’s Love Got To Do With It?” He feels that What’s Love Got To Do With It? has one thing this is attracting the audiences and competing with the large Hollywood motion pictures.
What’s Love Got To Do With It? is a cross-cultural romantic comedy
Azmi claims that but even so the trap of running with Kapur and Thompson, she appreciated the script, which satisfied her to come back on board. “It is clever, funny, and takes an affectionate look at the Asian community. It shows two cultures so different from each other, without passing judgement, just observations that ring true. Emma loved the film both times she saw it and said, ‘I’m very proud to be a part of it.’ It was too good an offer to resist.”
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Kapur informs that the March unlock has to first be censored in India. “We hope it will happen by next month, and then we can have a summer release. “Though OTT platforms have some good stuff, it is nice when a film like What’s Love Got To Do With It? competes theatrically and does well,” he stocks, including that if folks speak about What’s Love Got To Do With It? 30 years later, he would imagine it a good fortune.