WE NEED MORE LAUGHTER IN THE WORLD'

Ishaan Khatter is excited that Phone Bhoot is getting a theat-rical release -- his last film Khaali Peeli (2020) premiered on OTT when COVID-19 was at its peak.

You are working with Katrina Kaif for the first time. Were you ever starstruck by her presence? Do you remember your first day on set? 

Yeah, I remember it very vividly.

It was during the pandemic, and

God knows we all remember the pandemic (laughs).

I was really looking forward to working with her.

I seldom get starstruck because it’s just how my personality is.

‘Comedy and humour are important tools and open the hearts of people.’

But I was reminded that I had danced as a background dancer with her, so I have seen her from that perspective.

It was full circle for me to be working with her in that capacity.

She doesn’t carry the weight of her seniority to the sets.

She is very cool.

She has a wicked sense of humour, which you get to see a glimpse of in this film, and she is having a lot of fun at the cost of herself in this film, which is great.

Phone Bhoot is the kind of film that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and so we all took note of that and didn’t take ourselves too seriously.

We had fun with the material and tried to lift it off the page.

Katrina is very professional. She knows her lines and works on them constantly.

She is always prepared.

She has her own set of ideas that comes up with for the character.

I think Katrina’s humour is so subtle. She might just prank us and we won’t even know about it.