India’s Aanand L. Rai Talks Returning to the ‘Raanjhanaa’ Universe With Dhanush, A.R. Rahman, Reveals Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran A decade after scoring a major hit with “Raanjhanaa,” Indian director-producer Aanand L. Rai is returning to its universe with “Tere Ishk Mein.” “Raanjhanaa,” an intense Hindu-Muslim romantic drama, was the Hindi-language debut of Tamil cinema star Dhanush and featured chartbusting music by Oscar-, BAFTA-, Grammy- and Golden Globe-winner A.R.
Rahman. While keeping the plot under wraps, Rai told Variety, “When we were working on the ‘Tere Ishk Mein’ script, we realized that we are catching on to the same aggression.
And in terms of genre, it’s falling in that genre of tragedy and I said, it’s actually belonging to that world. They’re not similar stories, but they have a similar heartbeat.
We were getting the same feeling what we were getting when we were working on ‘Raanjhanaa.’ I said, let’s start belonging to that world.” “Raanjhanaa” made spectacular use of the holy north Indian city of Varanasi and, while part of “Tere Ishk Mein” will be shot there, the majority of the film will be shot elsewhere.
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