The Deepika Padulone, Arjun Kapoor starrer, ‘Finding Fanny’ which is up for release next month draws its inspiration from a novel. It has been adapted from a 200-plus page novel which will soon hit the stands.
Confirming the news, director Homi Adajania said, ““My co-writer, Kersi Khambatta, wrote the novel based on my short story of Finding Fanny, and then we used that to develop the screenplay. My only issue was that I told him to keep the book on ice until the film was out.” He further added that, “I wanted people to watch my film first”.
Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor in a still from movie ‘Finding Fanny’
Considering that the film’s trailers itself have got amazing responses, the film has gathered enough buzz and thus the duo have already received an offer from a leading publisher for the book.
Writer Kersi Khambhatta says, “This process (of adapting a screenplay from a book) gave us lots of colour, description and detail to play with. It eventually lent itself to a fatter and fuller screenplay as well. Our main motive was to make the movie first. Now that it is done, publishers have expressed an interest in reading the original manuscript of the novel.”
Finding Fanny is all set to hit the theatres on 12th September, 2014.
