Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur will start shooting for the follow-up to his 1983 film "Masoom" early next year, with original stars Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah set to return.
The two actors will be joined by Manoj Bajpayee, who worked with Kapur in "Bandit Queen" (1994), and the director's daughter Kaveri.
Kapur shared the film update on the sidelines of the curtain raiser press conference of the 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in New Delhi.
"I will start shooting for 'Masoom 2' in February-March 2025. The script is ready. In fact, I was flying in from Dubai yesterday and I left the script ('Masoom 2') behind on my seat.
"I was very scared but it came back to me. The flight attendant wrote a note saying ''Masoom' was such a nice film, this one too would be as nice''. A script that was lost comes back, it's something predestined. It will be a different storyline but will have the same values," he told reporters.
At the press conference, Kapur also expressed interest in re-releasing "Masoom" in theatres. Also starring Tanuja, Supriya Pathak and Saeed Jaffrey, the film follows a family which starts to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband had an affair and child from that relationship has come looking for his father. It featured Jugal Hansraj, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar as child actors.
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