When you orchestrate an action setpiece -- which are pretty elaborate and detailed, do you ever pick up favourite sequences from other films?
Yeah, there are references. The Hollywood films have done these things before we have, so obviously we're inspired. But you need to realise that we got introduced to jetskis probably 30 years after America did -- in fact there are probably 30, maybe 50 jetskis in the country, right?
So we're using their vehicles, their instruments, so obviously their crews have set the benchmark, and we want to match up. And there's nothing wrong with that.
And one doesn't pick up a shot, one picks up an instrument -- a car, a helicopter, and a jetski. And then you try and bring them together in a way you haven't seen before. Like I haven't seen a helicopter and a jetski coming together before. In Die Hard 4.0 -- which I absolutely loved -- there's a car crashing into a helicopter. One improvises on what one sees.
You called the new film another caper film. So what is Cash about?
It's about three diamonds, and six people who are trying to get them. And they're crossing each other's paths and conning each other and wooing each other. In the end, somebody gets it.
Fair enough. How do you go about setting up the cast for a multistarrer?
While we were still shooting for Dus, we had Ajay, Zayed and Suniel on board. We didn't have a story, but just decided that we'd like to do a film together. And keeping these actors in mind, we developed some story ideas. Once we wrote the final script and all three liked them, we then narrated it to Ritesh and the others.
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