Parmeet says Aditya never visited set of Badmaash Company

Parmeet Sethi who worked as an actor in Aditya Chopra’s directorial debut ‘

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

’, later worked with him as a director. Sethi turned writer and director with ‘

Badmaash Company

’ which starred Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Vir Das and Meiyang Chang. The film had done well at the box office. In a recent interview, Parmeet revealed how he was supposed to collaborate with Chopra on another film called ‘

Prince Of Lahore

’ which never saw the light of the day.

He said during a chat with Screen, “Adi and I didn’t meet a lot after DDLJ, but we had developed a bond. And after all those years when I approached him with a script, he was all like, ‘Arey yaar, Parmeet ko likhne ka shaukh kaha se aagaya, ab isse bhi milna padega. (When did Parmeet start writing, now will have to meet him.)’ He met me only to not come out as a badtameez. But when he finally met me and heard the storyline of my first film, he suddenly showed interest in my film. Creatively, we were both on the same page.”However, this film ‘Prince Of Lahore’ could not be made due to

26/11 attacks

and then it wasn’t possible to shoot in Lahore. Parmeet then wrote the script of ‘Badmaash Company’ in six days which Aditya loved. The producer-director also suggested that Parmeet only should direct it.He said, “Aditya Chopra never visited my set. On the first day of shoot, Yash Chopra had come to my set for muhurat rituals. Post that none of them cared to be on my set. Aditya never even interfered in the editing room. He blindly trusted me and apparently, it was the first time when Aditya didn’t bother to be part of any film’s editing. This sort of worried me. I went to Adi and said, ‘Adi yaar, kam se kam dekh toh le mai kya shoot kar raha hu (Adi, at least look at what I have shot).’ And he would say, ‘Don’t worry, I know you are doing a good job.’ He said, ‘I did ask the editor about your shoots and he called it kadak. I didn’t bother to interfere post that.'”

Praising Aditya further as a producer, Parmeet said, “Aditya was completely behind the scenes. However, he gave me everything I ever wanted to shoot the film. He passed the budget, gave me an open offer to shoot wherever I wanted, New York, Bangkok. I haven’t ever seen a producer like him. He only had an involvement in the music as I had no experience.”