You’d imagine a director reading out his script, beat by beat, to an actor. But what if we told you it was the other way around with ‘Rockstar’? On the latest episode of Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist series, Imtiaz Ali recalled how he had approached Ranbir Kapoor for a different film, but they ended up reviving his long-forgotten script that had done the rounds. 

Imtiaz shared, “Ranbir Kapoor has a lot of friends who are in the film industry. Many years back was making this film, ‘Rockstar’ and it didn`t get made, but there was talk about it and there was the story must have gone around. I was back to making Rockstar’. I approached Ranbir for it. I met him at a screening. I hadn`t seen ‘Saawariya’ (2007). Deepika (Padukone) had told him everything about me. Because she was in (Love Aaj Kal).”