What are Shahid and Amrita Raos characters like in the film?
Shahid plays Prem, a soft-spoken modern Delhi boy while Amrita plays Poonam, a traditional Indian girl from Mathura. In the film, Prem and Poonam meet each other for the first time first time through their families. After engagement they have a six-month courtship. In this process they talk, spend time together. When they hold hands for the first time, it conveys that they have accepted each other. Is it based on a real-life story? Like for all my earlier films, my father gave the subject. All my films have had emotional alleviation of the characters and an emotional climax. This film is based on a newspaper column my father read 16 years ago. In an age where young people are questioning the very institution of marriage, how well do you think they will accept a film like this? Marriage is just a backdrop of the film. It’s a family-oriented film. People ask me why I don’t make films in other genres. The family audience is from children to 80 year olds. Where else do you get such a big e
