Quick takes with team ‘Karwaan’
The inspiration behind the story:
“The idea of Karwaan came from Bejoy Nambiar [Indian filmmaker-screenwriter]. I was acting in his film David and he had an idea what if there was a situation that somebody’s relative had passed away and the body that came was the wrong one,” said director Akarsh Khurana: “There was no incident as such that sparked the idea. Although, a few weeks ago there was an article in the paper that someone got the wrong body. And I was asked whether it was a publicity stunt.”
Working with Irrfan Khan:
“It took a while to come to terms with the fact that I was acting with him and not his audience this time,” revealed Mithila Palkar. Salmaan agreed, adding: “For me, Irrfan sir is a humongous star — he’s one of the senior actors I look up to. So, I put in the extra effort to be prepared because you can start fumbling your lines if you are a bit star-struck.”
A road journey to remember:
“I used to travel a lot with my theatre group earlier,” recalled Khurana. “One night, while we were travelling through Patna, we realised we were in dacoit territory. And naturally, we got lost. We finally met someone who, at first we thought was going to loot and kill us, but he turned out to be very helpful in the end.”
Salmaan added: “I would love to take my wife [Amal Sufiya] on a road journey with me, if she ever agrees. But most of the time, she just falls asleep.”