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Vishal Bhardwaj on his forthcoming film Kaminey and his plans to complete the Shakespearean trilogy

You heard him in hauntingly beautiful O Sathi Re in Omkara and you will hear him once again rendering his voice to one of the tracks in his much awaited film Kaminey. It’s not only direction that has been his forte. When it is Vishal Bhardwaj there is much more to add. The director cum composer cum singer will once again get into his non-directorial shoes for a while to sing one of the tracks in his forthcoming film. Kaminey that for the first time pairs Shahid Kapur and Priyanka Chopra together will have Shahid in a double role.

“The genre of this film is caper. In fact the format that I have followed for this film is Caper. You can say that the film has dark humor, dark comedy or black humor to be very precise. It also has the typical Bollywood formula of twin brothers. It has Shahid in double role. And yes for the first time Shahid and Priyanka have been paired together,” says Bhardwaj for who the fondness for the dark genre does not seem to end. Donned in a black shirt the director affirms his love for the dark. “I like dark, I am wearing black today so that proves how much I love dark,” quips he.

Bhardwaj was in the city to attend the two-day seminar on Cinema and Literature: Questions on Adaptation at FTII.

Clearing doubts on the film being on from the triology Bhardwaj says, “Kaminey has nothing to do with the trilogy. I too have heard it being mistaken with an adaptaion Of Romeo and Juliet but it is nothing of that sort. It is a very Indian love story,” says he.

Deferring plans to make a biographical film on the Bollywood stunt queen, Fearless Nadia, Bhardwaj currently is concentrating on completing his Shakespearean trilogy. After Macbeth (Maqbool) and Hamlet (Othello) the director is skimming through the plays to find the third one. “Kaminey is underway and apart from that as of now I am concentrating on completing the trilogy. I haven’t thought about it much but I am looking into plays to find one that suits my need,” says the director.

However the director is also planning to come out of the ‘adaptation’ tag. “After Kaminey and the trilogy I am planning to shed the tag of adaptation director. I will be making films now on my original ideas,” says he.