This Article is From Nov 03, 2015

The Movie That Changed Zoya Akhtar's Mind About Hindi Films

The Movie That Changed Zoya Akhtar's Mind About Hindi Films

A file photo of Zoya Akhtar.

Mumbai: Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has entertained the masses with Bollywood films like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Dil Dhadakne Do, but admits that there was a time when she used to not like Hindi films.

"I never liked Hindi films in my college days. I decided to work in the advertising field and then I watched Salaam Bombay! which had the biggest influence on me to be a filmmaker," Zoya, who acted in Mira Nair's 1996 film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, said at the MAMI Movie Mela in Mumbai. (Also Read: Zoya Akhtar on This Year's MAMI Mumbai Film Festival)

The 1988 Mira Nair-directed movie chronicles the day-to-day life of children living on the streets of Mumbai. It had won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Zoya is now looking forward to watch quite a few Hindi films.

"I was too busy due to Dil Dhadakne Do. Now, I am looking forward to watch movies like Court, Tanu Weds Manu and Piku which I have been told are incredible," she said.

Future projects?

"I have just started researching for my next film and started writing the script. It will be contemporary; my kind of genre based on Mumbai and will start shooting next year," she said.

She also shared that she has a biopic in the pipeline.

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