Shekhar Kapur started his professional career as a chartered accountant in the UK, but he returned to India in the early 1970s to join the Hindi film industry -- first as an actor (his first project was Ishq Ishq Ishq directed by his mother's brother Dev Anand) and then as a film-maker where he directed classic films such as Masoom and Mr. India.
After a gap of 15 years Kapur is back with an international project -- What's Love Got to Do with It? The film stars Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Lily James, Shazad Latif and the Pakistani actress Sajal Ali who played Sridevi's daughter in Mom.
The film is set in London and Lahore, although all the Pakistani scenes were shot in studios in the UK. The film is written by Jemima Khan, who was married to Imran Khan.
Produced by the British company Working Title (Love Actually and Notting Hill), What's Love Got to Do with It? focuses on an arranged marriage between a young girl from Lahore and a Pakistani-British doctor, who also has feelings for a white British girl he grew up with.
The film weighs on whether arranged marriages have much relevance when many young people are falling in love and finding their own life partners.
What's Love Got to Do with It? premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. After the theatrical release in the UK on February 24, it opens in India today,
Shekhar, you have had such a remarkable career and have made a wide range of films, going back to Bandit Queen, Masoom and Mr. India and then there is your work in Hollywood and the UK. But there was this gap where you were talking about various projects, Paani for instance, etc. And nothing was getting made.
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