group of cricketers playing the game while driving a Chevrolet Tavera; a lady in a helicopter unveils a Scorpio hidden under a pile of snow. What's common between the two? Apart from the fact that both films are about cars, the filmmaker is the same: Kunal Kapoor. The older son of Shashi and Jennifer Kapoor runs AdFilm Valas.
Why this penchant for car ads? Does he want to be known as an auto film maker? Kunal vehemently denies it. "Nothing was planned. I always saw things in a larger canvas. When I made the Bombay Dyeing films, they were complete fantasy films. Then I made some Bush and MRF films. They were not the regular, housewife scrubbing soap cakes and holding up white clothes type of films or cooking oil films that were made then. They were all fantasy films. I enjoy glamour and action. I am getting typecast because I made 2-3 films on cars in a row," he grumbles. ... more