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'will I die without ever knowing love?'
GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE
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'Love will always be a mystery.'
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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,
This story is from the Global Movie Magazine edition of GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE.
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