Break Ke Baad - Deepika Padukone

Right after Deepika Padukone's break-up with Ranbir Kapoor, she's doing a film called Break Ke Baad with Imran Khan.

That's what Kunal Kohli has chosen to call his the first film that he's producing and not directing. Says Kunal, "My director Danish Aslam and I always wanted to call his film Break Ke Baad because it's about a couple Imran and Deepika who break up and want to come together."

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The title was registered with someone else. Kunal and his team couldn't locate the legal owners of the title anywhere in Mumbai. "We finally tracked it down to Bangalore to a 60-year old gentleman who deals in electrical goods. He owns a company called Seva Films. He hopes to make films that would change the world. Break Ke Baad is one of the titles he had registered. He loved our idea and gladly parted with the title." A token amount of money exchanged hands.

However getting permission to shoot in Delhi was far more difficult. Says Kunal, "I could write a thesis on what I've gone through to get permission to shoot in Delhi." Kunal's problems as a producer don't end there. He has been denied permission to shoot on the Gold Coast. "So we'll have to shoot in Cape Town and fudge the Gold Coast." Break Ke Baad is set in Delhi and Australia.

This is Kohli's first film as an independent producer. He is yet to finalise the cast for his own directorial venture. "But I'm so glad Danish has got a dream pair. Imran and Deepika together sounds good to everyone."

Pehle Bhi...
Milind Soman had registered the title Hum Tum. When Kunal was making the Saif-Preity starrer, he wanted only that title and Soman finally sold it to him for 1.5 lakhs!