The producer of Shahid Kapoor’s first Bollywood movie ‘Ishq Vishk’ Ramesh Taurani has announced its remake. The film which was released 16 years ago starred Amrita Rao and Shenaz Treasury as the female leads. The film was based on triangle college romance and it established Shahid as the lover boy or chocolaty boy of Bollywood.
Ramesh Taurani confirmed the news to Mumbai Mirror saying, “Yes, we are making a sequel to Ishq Vishk. The story is in the scripting stage and could be about a teenage romance or a college romance. Hopefully, in the next two-three months, we will lock the script and start looking for the director and cast.”
Talking about how he had finalized to back Ishq Vishk in 2003, Taurani revealed, “When we got Ken Ghosh on board, he had suggested two-three different concepts which would have required established stars and didn’t really impress me. Then, he came up with an idea to be headlined by newcomers, which we really liked and greenlit the project. We worked really hard on the film, the entire process from the first pitch to the wrap took us a year.”
Talking about Shahid’s launch in Bollywood, Ramesh said, “He was very young then, so I asked him to wait for two-three years before I could launch him. When Ken narrated the final story of Ishq Vishk to me, I told him that I had a hero who fits the part and introduced him to Shahid.”