Filmmaker
Shekhar
Kapur
says
if
he
had
the
rights
to
his
1987
hit
Mr
India,
he
would
have
made
a
second
part
by
now
that
would
still
be
rooted
in
the
original
film,
albeit
a
different
story.
Starring
Anil
Kapoor,
Sridevi
and
Amrish
Puri,
Mr
India
was
a
sci-fi
action
movie
produced
by
Boney
Kapoor
and
Surinder
Kapoor.
According
to
reports,
a
sequel,
titled
Mr
India
2,
was
announced
in
2011.
In
2020,
Zee
Studios
had
announced
they
have
signed
Ali
Abbas
Zafar
to
helm
a
trilogy
Mr
India,
a
re-imagining
of
the
cult
classic
film.
The
status
of
this
project
is
currently
unknown.
Besides
his
Elizabeth
film
series,
Kapur
said
he
hasn't
consciously
stayed
away
from
churning
out
IP
(Intellectual
Property)
driven
content
but
he
doesn't
want
to
remake
a
film.
"Problem
is
I'm
always
looking
for
adventure.
'Jo
kahani
bana
li
use
dobara
kyun
banayein?'
What
drives
me
is
the
adventure
of
the
unknown
and
an
IP
becomes
known,
then
you
have
an
addiction.
"And
it
has
to
be
somewhere
close,
otherwise
people
say
how
is
it
the
same...
If
I
had
the
rights
to
'Mr
India',
I
would
have
done
a
'Mr
India
2'
by
now.
But
I
don't," the
76-year-old
director
told
PTI
on
the
sidelines
of
the
Media
and
Entertainment
Fortnight
at
India
Pavilion
during
the
EXPO2020
Dubai
here.
Kapur
is
now
set
to
direct
the
series
adaptation
of
Amish
Tripathi's
critically-acclaimed
book
series
Shiva
Trilogy.
"I've
never
tried
to
create
an
IP,
but
I
think
it's
time
to
do
it," the
FTII
president
added.
The
director
also
revealed
that
he
always
envisioned
the
period
film
franchise
"Elizabeth",
starring
Cate
Blanchett
as
the
titular
British
monarch,
as
a
trilogy.
"First
one
is
about
when
she
becomes
the
queen
and
questions
the
divine
right
to
rule,
the
second,
when
there's
a
power
tussle
between
King
Philip
of
Spain
and
her,"
he
added.
The
third
film
in
the
series,
which
he
teased
he
hasn't
made
"yet",
would
see
Queen
Elizabeth
I
in
her
old
age.
"It's
well
known
that
Elizabeth
was
very
scared
of
laying
down
in
bed
because
(she
thought)
she
would
die.
She
wouldn't
go
to
bed
for
a
while.
The
fear
was
if
you
die,
you're
like
everybody
else
then
where
does
the
divine
right
go?
What's
the
idea
of
immortality
if
you're
famous?
This
is
the
third
film
I
haven't
made
yet,"
Kapur
said.
Up
next
for
the
director
is
"What's
Love
Gotta
Do
With
It?",
a
cross-cultural
rom-com
about
love
and
marriage,
set
between
London
and
South
Asia.
It
stars
Lily
James,
Emma
Thompson,
Sajal
Ali,
Shazad
Latif,
Rob
Brydon,
Shabana
Azmi
and
Asim
Chaudhry.
According
to
Kapur,
the
film
is
expected
to
be
released
in
theatres
by
mid
2022.
What
attracted
him
to
the
story
of
the
British
movie,
penned
by
Jemima
Khan,
was
its
premise
that
"what
we
all
are
looking
for
is
intimacy",
he
added.
"What
we
have
done
is
that
we
have
made
any
sense
of
intimacy
sexual.
I've
discovered
that
what
a
lot
of
young
girls
and
boys
are
looking
for
is
intimacy.
They
confuse
between
the
two
(intimacy
and
sex)."
Kapur's
long-in-the-works
film
"Paani"
(Water)
has
been
rechristened
to
"Flow"
following
an
international
investment,
he
said,
adding
that
the
new
name
is
"an
apt
title".
"Water
is
a
metaphor
for
flow.
When
you
don't
allow
life
to
flow,
it
festers.
If
you
don't
allow
money
to
flow,
it
becomes
a
monopoly.
Even
if
you
dam
the
water,
it
will
start
festering.
Life
is
a
flow,"
he
added.