Having
created a film strategy for him since he joined the film industry, producer Sajid Nadiadwala remained stiff on it
all these years. He never made more than one movie in every 2 or 3 years.
However, he recently seems to have adopted a change in his filmmaking policies.
He has his name linked to 6 films this year, out of which one has already
released and also achieved the expected success. The first movie that he
presented this year was Highway. Written, directed, and produced by Imtiaz Ali,
the road film brought accolades to both Imtiaz and Sajid. “It is a
wonderful story told in a modest budget and I didn’t want to let go of an
opportunity to work with Imtiaz,” said Sajid talking about Highway. The
producer is co-producing another movie with filmmaker Karan Johar, which is
based on a book written by Chetan Bhagat. 2 States is the name of this film,
which Sajid showed great interested in. Confirming the news, he says, “Whoever
I went to, they wanted to do it because they had read the book. One of Karan’s
directors had written a screenplay. I read it and loved it.”
Also,
debuting as a director this year with the Salman Khan starrer Kick, Sajid Nadiadwala confessed, “It is not
too difficult to balance between being a producer and director. I now
understand my directors much more than before.” He is also bringing back
together the hit Jodi of 2013 – Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in his next
with Imtiaz Ali. Talking about this untitled flick Sajid said, “If I could, I
would have had them on board four years ago. Our second movie with Ranbir
Kapoor and Deepika Padukone starts in July. We wanted to work on it first, but
since we had a gap of six-eight months while planning it, we made Highway.”
A source added, “He is very happy and confident about his collaboration
with the kind of projects he is associating himself with.”
Film
producer Sajid Nadiadwala seems to
have the ‘Midas Touch’ this year for sure!
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