Scripting his own success formula

Updated On: 23 March, 2024 05:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma

Debutant director Kunal recalls how he was dissatisfied with the acting offers coming his way and wrote Madgaon Express with the initial idea of starring in it

Kunal Kemmu

What if Dil Chahta Hai’s (2001) Goa trip went wrong? From that thought was born Kunal Kemmu’s directorial debut, Madgaon Express. The comedy revolves around three friends whose trip to Goa leads to a series of misadventures. While Kemmu knew that Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani would be the best people to produce it, he didn’t have anyone in mind to direct it. “I had written the film for myself to act in. But when I narrated it to Farhan, he suggested that I direct it,” he smiles, pleased at how direction happened to him accidentally.

A still from Madgaon Express