EXCLUSIVE: Lust Stories 3 producer Ashi Dua says they expected a “serious” story from Kiran Rao; reveals multiple ideas from Vikramaditya Motwane, Shakun Batra; calls Vishal Bhardwaj a “complete trooper”
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Producer Ashi Dua of late spoke to Bollywood Hungama about the making of Lust Stories 3 and opened up about the creative process behind the four stories. From Motwane considering multiple ideas before settling on his segment to the back-and-forth involved in collaborating with veteran filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, Ashi offered insight into how each director approached the anthology.
Adding to this, Ashi described Vikramaditya Motwane as one of the finest filmmakers in the country and opened up that the director initially had several ideas for his segment before arriving at the story that eventually became part of Lust Stories 3 .
Meanwhile, “He is one of the finest filmmakers that we have, and of course we were very excited to go to him, and he did have a couple of other ideas that he wanted to do before the story finally happened. And we were pushing for something easier and fun. Then he came up with this idea, and then we all immediately fell in love, and we thought it was very fun and very easy and very unlike Vikram,” she shared.
Notably, “And then when he had the casting idea that he had with Konkona Sen and Radhika Apte, it was just great. Like you had two of the best actresses and it just worked out with him. It was a process. There were two other films, two stories that he had in mind, and by the time we arrived at the story it was a process, but I'm glad we stuck to this one,” she added.
As per the latest buzz, According to Ashi, Kiran Rao was the only filmmaker among the four whose very first idea was immediately embraced by the entire team. She opened up that the team had expected Rao to come up with something more serious, but were pleasantly surprised by the mainstream and thriller elements in her story.
In further updates, “Kiran was the only one out of the four whose first idea we all loved. Really, this was the first story she came up with, and we all loved it,” Ashi shared.
On top of that, She added, “And the thing is, we also thought Kiran is going to come up with something a little more serious, but then this was like, oh, this is like really mainstream and commercial and really fun and had a thrill element to it, which people will watch.”
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Source: Bollywood Hungama