Soha’s professional clash with husband?

Actor’s ‘31st October’ to be released a day after Kunal Khemu’s film

NEW DELHI: Actor Soha Ali Khan’s first film post marriage, 31st October, may release alongside her husband, actor Kunal Khemu’s Guddu Ki Gun on October 30. She says she is “not scared” of their box office “clash”.

“I think it will be exciting. We have been married for six months, we need some excitement! The producers have decided that they are going to release it (around that time). October 31 is a sensible time to release our film because it’s called ‘31st October’.”

Soha believes that there is enough “appetite in the industry for both films and they are very different in genre,” therefore she is “not scared by him (Kunal) or Guddu Ki Gun.”While Guddu Ki Gun is a comedy film, 31st October is a historical drama based on the aftermath of the 1984 riots.

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Soha, who has starred in Rang De Basanti, Mumbai Meri Jaan and Midnight’s Children, will be seen playing a “strong female protagonist” in 31st October.“The film is about a family on the night of the Indira Gandhi assassination and the Sikh riots that followed in Delhi. The woman’s role in the film is very primitive,” she said.

The 36-year-old actor says that she has no agenda of keeping herself away from commercial cinema. “I just want to be a part of interesting films and for me; the box office success doesn’t matter. Now when Hindi film industry has become a 100 percent business and no longer an art, unfortunately, it does matter.” 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4^th,  2015.

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