What is Mission Istaanbul all about?Mission Istaanbul is basically a film which comes in action genre. It's a fast paced action film, lot of quick cuts, lot of really innovative action and the good thing about it is that there is also a story behind it. And if you ask me what the story of Mission Istaanbul is about one man is offered a job in a foreign country, he takes up a job and what he realizes is that he stumbles upon a secret or information which is very critical to the entire planet. He manages making a copy of it and how is he on the run after that. And how I guess the whole world is after him from the Indian raw analysis we know India to the CI to the Turkish Police and how he finally gets out of the country with the help of various people which keep coming through different stages of the film.
Tell us about the cast of the film. How did you manage to find them?
We were looking for some one young to play a budding Indian journalist, a television journalist. So we zoomed it to Zayed Khan. The other advantage we had was that Zayed had never done a film like this because before this film he was known as a chocolate boy hero. And this the first time he agreed to play a very matured role where he is married and he is having marital problem and so that was very interesting to anti caste in a way. As far as a Turkish commando who was fired from his job for something he did not do and he is got a motivation to prove himself right. That was Vivek Oberoi and I have worked with Vivek Oberoi in ShootOut At Lokhandwala. We have a very clear understanding about the cinema we make and Vivek was my first choice for Rizwan's character. As far as Nikitin Dheer who plays the young brash owner of a multinational television channel which is AL Johara in our film and his father started the company and he is the young dude who has taken over the company who is very brash and makes decision straight on the spot. We thought Nikitin would be fantastic because he is large than a life. He is 6 feet 4 inches. He is massively build and he looks fantastic in a suit and he has done a fantastic job considering his second film. As far as Shabbir, he is very dear friend of mine and I don't see my self working without Shabbir because he is really a close friend and we needed someone who would play a terrorist or a terrorist brother and Shabbir has long and lovely side locks and he looked very good in Afghan clothes and plus Shabbir is a fantastic actor. So that goes for Shabbir. Suniel Shetty and I became very close friends during ShootOut At Lokhandwala and though Suniel has a policy that he does not act in any film, he produces. I had to convince him to do a guest appearance because making up my first film for Popcorn without Suniel wouldn't have been cool. As far as Shreya was concerned, we needed someone Indian who is also playing a reporter because my film otherwise is very modern and the clothes are very modern and cool. We needed someone to bring us back to our culture and that's why we selected Shreya Sharan because she was fantastic in Awaarapan and Shivaji and she has got a very nice face and she also plays a reporter and that was how Shreya came into the picture. And as far as Lisa Lobo character which is the action oriented girl who likes ride and drives car really very fast and really does a lot of action. We thought we'll launch a new girl because we needed more time from that girl. We needed her to rehearse how to drive a Mahindra and do stunts and we needed her to be really flexible as far as stunts were concerned.
How was the experience shooting at Istaanbul?
Shooting at Istaanbul was very good. Istaanbul is a beautiful city, is visually fantastic. Anywhere you put your camera can become a frame. Only thing we didn't count was that the whether would get so cold.
Any problems did you face during the action sequence?
Action is always difficult because it is very physical. Now the other thing is that when we were shooting at Istaanbul, sometimes it was 0 degrees to sometimes due to wind it was minus 10 degrees. And Istaanbul is not the easy place to shoot because it is extremely cold. So the actors in action cannot wear too many clothes so obviously there were situations where they were freezing. And the other thing is that the right amount of warm up is required. The only problem which we really had was when the close saves from the splinters blasting a little earlier than the timing. Shweta fractured her leg. My action director got into an accident. But they had cuts and wounds but that's the advantage of having talented, hard working actors who give everything to the film because I used to pump them up and they used to also feel that unless they have a cut they don't have enough blood to show after the shot and they have done a good job. So it became a one up man ship. And if Vivek had to jump from the fourth floor then Zayed wanted to jump from the seventh floor. So it was a good fun as a director.
What did you find is the toughest thing to manage while shooting for the film?
I think the toughest thing to manage was when Suniel was on the set, he is the biggest prankster of the film industry. So that catches on. So I think the toughest part about the film was to control the fun because I thought that everyone was having too much of fun for my film and I think that it should be slightly more serious and I guess I became the Villain trying to control them, but otherwise it was pretty smooth.
Have you given any special effects in your film?
No we have not given any special effects because I am not very familiar with the special effects genre. I have done a film with I am comfortable with.
Tell us something about the music of the film.
From the offset we have decided that we were not going to go with one music director. We were going to try different kind of sounds from different music directors, preety much following what I did on ShootOut At Lokhandwala. So we went to Anu Malik for two romantic songs because I think Anu is fantastic with the genre and I don't think that anyone has the sur and the taal better as far as the Indian music and Indian romantic songs are concerned. We went to Shamir Tandon because he had done one love for Suniel Shetty earlier and we bought the rights for the World Hold On which I think is the record of source because it had already been re recorded for almost 47 times so we bought the rights for that and made Shamir Tandon do this a really cool number on that. I made Mika do another number because he was preety good with 'Ganpat' in Shoot Out so he has done 'Apun Ke Saath' for Viveik and Chiranjan Bhatt who is the first time music director. I met him at the Popcorn office and he made me hear two three tracks and I thought it was very interesting, so I have two tracks with him. The first one is 'Mission Istaanbul' title track and the second one is 'Nobody Like You' which Abhishek Bachachan is shooting.
How was the experience shooting this film?
It was a very big learning experience for me because I have never done such a big budget film with so much action. Now action is very grueling because what happens is you have to be patient doing any action, a romantic scene can take you six hours to shoot but the same amount of a one or two minute action can take you seven days.
source:in.movies.yahoo.com
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