Shekhar Kapur has disclosed details about the sequel of the most acclaimed film 1983’s Masoom. The title will be Masoom… The New Generation. Masoom had featured Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi in pivotal roles. They appear as the married couples with two daughter in a happy family setup until a boy arrives from the past which topples relationship. It starred Jugal Hansraj, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar as child actors.
Speaking to Variety, Shekhar said, “When you talk to people about home, the first thing they say is that it is property, it is real estate and the second thing they say is ‘What’s it worth?’ The real estate value of your house becomes much more important than what the essential idea for home is. And home is, what is it? It is memories – people growing up, the walls have memories, the sofa where you sit down is a memory. Everything is a memory. So I’m taking that fundamental idea of what is home.”
“I was looking to do a film that I could go back to being naive, almost, because Masoom was from somebody who’d never made a film before, didn’t know how to make a film, went in and made a film, had nothing, no technical competence or experience or skill to fall back on – so just fell back on telling a real human story… Whenever I look back, and even when I look at What’s Love Got to Do with It?, I realize what I was doing then and I’m doing now is making all characters very human, because that’s how I see them – very human. So Masoom is the way of going back to just making the stories of the simplicity of being human and the complexity of being human but staying human and the story being human,” Kapur added.
The filmmaker’s last film was What’s Love Got to Do with It? The film starred Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Lily James, Shazad Latif, Sajal Aly, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
