(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Said Basu: Jagga Jasoos was planned as a quickie.
Anurag Basu whose last film the highly acclaimed and successful Barfi! came two years ago won’t have any release this year. Jagga Jasoos is being shot at a slackened pace while his other projects are on hold till this one finishes.
Said Basu: “Jagga Jasoos was planned as a quickie. But Ranbir Kapoor (who is the film’s co-producer) has been shooting simultaneously for Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet.
“We’ve to shoot Jagga Jasoos during the gaps in the shooting of Bombay Velvet. We completed one schedule. Now we’ll go into a lengthy schedule from August. By the end of the year the shooting would be complete.”
It’s interesting that Basu admits to shooting Jagga Jasoos in between the schedules for Bombay Velvet. Barfi! had been delayed because it was shot in the spaces provided during the shooting of Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar.
Defending the delays he said: “Whether it’s Imtiaz during Barfi! or Anurag Kashyap during Jagga Jasoos they are both friends. And besides they are all Ranbir’s projects so there is no question of prioritising wrongly.”
Next Basu goes into his Kishore Kumar biopic. He says he is definitely committed to making that film.
“Ranbir and I are certainly doing it. We’d have gone into it right after Barfi! But then Ranbir got committed to Bombay Velvet. So I decided to make Jagga Jasoos first. Kishore can’t be made in breaks and spurts. It has to be done in one long stretch.”
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