Superstar
Aamir
Khan's
younger
brother
Faisal
Khan
is
making
a
comeback
into
movies
after
nine
years
with
a
love
story
set
in
Kashmir.
The
movie
Chinar:
Daastaan-E-Ishq
is
based
on
Urdu
novel
'Jheel
Jalti
Hai'
by
former
bureaucrat-turned-politician
Farooq
Ahmad
Renzu.
It
is
being
directed
by
Sharique
Minhaj,
who
directed
Faisal
in
his
last
film
Chand
Bujh
Gaya,
based
on
Gujarat's
Godhra
incident
in
2005.
Faisal
Khan
said
he
found
the
story
interesting
which
"forced" him
to
return
to
acting.
"I
had
stopped
acting
for
a
long
time
now,
but
when
this
script
came
to
me,
I
found
it
interesting
and
wanted
to
act
in
the
film," he
said.
The
actor
said
the
unit
got
a
lot
of
cooperation
from
the
locals
during
the
shoot.
"We
got
a
lot
of
cooperation
from
the
locals
and
the
administration
during
shooting
here
and
did
not
face
any
inconvenience," he
said.
Talking
to
reporters,
the
director
said
the
film
is
a
love
story
which
tries
to
portray
a
real
Kashmir
unlike
the
Bollywood
films
made
in
the
last
20
years.
"Kashmir
is
an
identity
of
romanticism
and
culture
but
the
films
made
in
the
last
20
years
were
on
violence.
I
wanted
to
change
that
and
wanted
to
make
a
film
on
culture.
I
came
across
the
novel
and
saw
the
real
colours
of
Kashmir
in
it,"
the
director
said.
Minhaj
said
the
movie
is
a
100
per
cent
"pure
Kashmiri
film"
with
no
connection
to
the
militancy
that
erupted
in
the
region
over
two
decades
ago.
PTI