The National award-winning kid Shams Patel who plays a street orphan in Thanks Maais not only a huge fan of Salman Khan but he likes to be known as ‘Salman Khan’ throughout the film.
Says the film’s director Irfan Kamal, “In fact Salman plays a very important in the film. Shams’ character is a big fan and we see posters of Salman’s films like Tere Naamand Saawariya throughout the film. Considering how important Salman is to the theme I badly wanted to show my film to him. But he is too busy.”
The film’s director Irfan Kamal struggled for more than three years to put together his story of a street kid’s search for an infant’s mother.
Considering he’s the son of the legendary choreographer Master Kamal (who made every glam-queen of the 1960s and 70s dance to his tunes) the least Irfan expected was the bigwigs of the industry to take note of the film.
Trying not to sound bitter, Irfan says, “I’ve knocked on every A-lister’s door in our industry. Let alone help my small film in reaching out to the audience, no one has even agreed to see my film except Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar and David Dhawan. But it’s ok. I’m not bitter. Of course my father was a very important part of this film industry. But why should I be granted any favours because of my father? I want my film to be judged on its own merits. But for that to happen people have to watch the film.” Read more….
