With Much Love ..!!

Punit Malhotra pays tribute, admitting twisted, to adventurous Hindi films through I Abhorrence Luv Storys

As debutant administrator Punit Malhotra dashes into the Dharma Productions appointment in Khar, an air of abandon fills the room. He cannot stop agitated about the reactions his admission agent I Abhorrence Luv Storys has accustomed so far. "I accept been accepting letters from bodies who accept admired my promos. We accept captivated a few screenings so far and the acknowledgment is fabulous," he says and lets out a scream, clumsy to adumbrate his excitement.

At 28, he is amorous about his craft, but his artlessness is apparent. "We accept 40 canicule to deliver. Karan (Johar) isn't actuality and will be aback alone by end of June. I accept to booty all above decisions on my own," he says. This makes him feel a tad important, but additionally nervous. "I had a assertive eyes for this script. I did not appetite anybody abroad to absolute it," he says and switches on his netbook to comedy the song promo of Jab Mila Tu which is currently actuality aired on ball channels.

So far, the adolescent director's affirmation to acclaim is that he is the nephew of Bollywood's favourite artist Manish Malhotra. "It is activity to be this way till I prove myself," says Punit, who has beforehand assisted Johar on films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. "I formed actual adamantine on these films and I do anticipate they helped me a lot. On the sets, I knew my shots and my adapt arrangement well. It will actually appearance in my film," he affirms. This, however, doesn't stop him from absent of authoritative an activity blur next.

For long, Punit did clay and additionally went through a appearance area he capital to act. "But acting wasn't actually alive out," he says. It was during his unemployed days, post-KANK, that he started alive on the calligraphy of I Abhorrence Luv Storys. "I showed the aboriginal abstract to Manish (Malhotra). He actually admired it," says Punit. He kept improvising on the abstract for about three months afore abutting Johar. "Karan had asked me to access him if I anytime absitively to accomplish a movie," says the director. Still, he was afraid about Johar's reaction, because it is a blur that is "up his alley".And as happens in Hindi films, aggregate fell into abode soon. "Sonam (Kapoor) and Imran (Khan) were on lath in ten canicule and the blur got completed in eight months," he says. The USP of the blur seems to be its dialogues, which are mainly a bluff on accepted Hindi films. "I am afraid on two counts: the dialogues are a bit gutsy. Secondly, if my blur gets panned tomorrow, all these bodies will be like, 'How cartel he accomplish fun of our films? What has he done?'," says Punit. "It is my accolade to the accepted Hindi adventurous films in a aberrant way."

What comes as a abruptness is that the administrator does not accept in adulation stories. "I don't abhorrence adulation stories, but I don't accept in them. Relationships are acceptable in the aboriginal three months, and again it is all about accepting out of it," says Malhotra. "But you never apperceive with life. Anything can happen."