MUMBAI: Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali is well-known in the industry and talked about why he decided to make the movie Jab Harry Met Sejal, which is sometimes viewed as his least successful production. Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma starred in this romantic comedy, which adds to the actor's long list of unsatisfactory movies. The movie garnered bad reviews and did poorly both critically and commercially. Imtiaz Ali claimed in an interview that he deliberately set out to make an "ordinary" movie since, after helming Tamasha, people began to refer to him as an "intellectual" director.

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Imtiaz Ali recently discussed how the public's perception of him changed as a result of Tamasha during a conversation in an interview with popular news portal. He said, After Tamasha, people started taking me very seriously. There was this idea that, ‘Tujhe nahi samajh aayi Tamasha kyunki tu akalmand nahi hai  (You didn't understand the film because you aren't intelligent)’, I felt like ‘My film is being discussedin a club where I wouldn’t find admittance’, and I didn't want to be that kind of director. So, I decided to make a movie that's not at all intellectual.” 

He continued the discussion by explaining his motivations for directing the Jab Harry Met Sejal film, which starred Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma. He mentioned it as an "Ordinary film," and continued, “I wanted to make an ordinary film. Every film that you make, you are attached to it, but I wanted to make Jab Harry Met Sejal during that time because I wanted to make a film jisme koi dimaag nahi lagao, matlab, ‘Yeh picture bhi bana sakta hai Imtiaz Ali jisne Tamasha banayi (A kind of film where you don't have to think too much, a film that would make people say, ‘Imtiaz Ali, who made Tamasha, can also make a movie like this’). I felt it could have been a fresh concept, and I could’ve have done better. However, in hindsight, I could have improved many things in my work.” With a laugh, he mentioned that viewers felt, ‘Yeh nahi samajh aayi picture (We didn't understand this movie).”

Jab Harry Met Sejal, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma, was released in 2017.

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