Published 20:30 IST, November 27th 2019

IFFI 2019: Farah Khan wants to make Tom Cruise dance in the next five years

Director and choreographer, Farah Khan, recently gave an interview at IFFI 2019. She spoke about her role as a director, choreographer and few of her best songs

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IFFI 2019 has been going strong ever since it began on vember 20, 2019. event will end this week on vember 29, 2019, and several Bollywood biggest celebrities have been busy attending prestigious festival. Director Farah Khan also made an appearance at event that is ongoing in Goa. Farah was interviewed during  event, where she was asked about her different roles as a director and a choreographer.

Farah's role as a choreographer and director

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At start of interview, Farah was told that she wears many hats, to which Farah replied by saying that she is primarily a mor of four children. She also added that she has only directed four movies in 12 years. So she thinks that her role as a director is something that she has done least. 

When asked what are challenges in choreographing a song, Farah said that is was easy to work when director had a clear vision of how song is supposed to look. She n praises a few directors that she thinks are good at designing a song. She names Mani Ratnam as someone who pushes his technicians to do ir best. She also says that Kundan Shah and Mansoor Khan are also good in this respect. 

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On being accused of making masala films

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Farah has often been accused of making masala movies. When asked about this, Farah said that entertainment has its own value that many igre. She adds that she likes many types of films but believes that a film should be entertaining even if it has a good mess. According to her, a movie should t be preachy and hammer in a mess. She names Munna Bhai as one movie that had a good mess and is entertaining.

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As a woman director and why she does t make women-centric films

According to Farah, directing is t a -specific job, and so she does t really revel in fact that she is a woman director. When asked about why she does t make women-centered films, Farah said that it was because of fact that re is a working business model. She says that people fill seats in atres to see heroes and t a woman-specific film. 

Talking about some of her famous songs

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When asked if she got all actors she wanted for her song Deewangi from Om Shanti Om, she laughed. Farah said that Aamir drove her crazy for ten days as he was editing his film Taare Zameen Par. After four years he said that he did t want to be a part of song. Shahrukh also said that he would bring in Saira Ji and Dilip Ji for song, a day which Farah said that she was still waiting for.

Talking about  song Chaiyaa Chaiyaa, Farah said that she was t allowed to shoot in station. So y had to shoot on top of train for four days. She jokingly added that one fell during shoot. She also said that she has associated with a lot of international films thanks to songs that she has choreographed. Finally, Farah was asked what she would wish to do in next five years. Her reply was that she definitely wanted to make Tom Cruise dance.

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19:38 IST, November 27th 2019