This morning, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of his path-breaking film “Dil Chahta Hai” and his film company Excel Entertainment, writer-director-actor Farhan Akhtar gave everyone a pleasant surprise. He announced that he was returning to direction, and with another fun road trip film, his third after Dil Chahta Hai and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. The catch – Farhan’s newest road trip film will be an all-female affair, titled “Jee Le Zaraa”. And the lineup is the stuff of every filmmaker’s wildest dreams – the spectacularly talented trio of Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Alia Bhatt, and Katrina Kaif!
Even as fans of the filmmaker, the actresses and film buffs in general struggled to absorb the delightful news, Priyanka Chopra spilled the beans on how the idea for Jee Le Zaraa came to be. The actress shared a long post on her Instagram account, where she narrated how the urge to realise an all-girls road trip took root in the three stars of the film, and director Farhan Akhtar.
Here’s the story, in Priyanka Chopra’s own words –
“Let’s rewind, to me musing about wanting to do another Hindi movie ASAP, on an unusually rainy night in Mumbai in Nov 2019.
But it had to be the right one – different, cool, never been done before… I thought. The idea grew into a movie helmed by an all-female cast. There are not enough Hindi movies that are female multi-starrers. This led to an impulsive phone call… to my 2 real friends about this idea that involved 3 on-screen girlfriends. A celebration of friendship we called it!!
Katrina kaif, Alia, and I enthusiastically met in February 2020 (as seen in this picture), just before the world shut down, to discuss who we could trust to bring this vision to life for us and our choice was unanimous… Farhan and Ritesh, Zoya and Reema. We had all worked with @excelmovies and @tigerbabyfilms individually so this seemed perfect. It just so happened that Farhan was working on a female road trip movie at the same time! Talk about all the stars aligning!!
And here we are today… #JeeLeZaraa… it only took 3 years to align all our schedules but we stuck together and got it done!
This one is to sisterhood… to friendship and to breaking the mould!! Can’t wait to get on the road with Aloo and Katty. My heart’s smiling.
See you at the movies.”
Isn’t that so heartwarming!
Check out Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ Instagram post here –
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