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Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor’s father Pankaj Kapoor who himself has acted in many TV serials and now he has directed ‘Mausam’ believes that he could be able to create it because of his childhood fantasy.

Shahid has played the role of Air Force Officer in ‘Mausam’ and it was Pankaj Kapoor’s childhood fantasy to be a pilot.

“As a kid I wanted to be a pilot. My real uncle was a pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF). I was very enamoured with him because he had a great personality. He used to look dashing in his uniform,” the veteran actor and now director told reporters in an interview.

“I am from Ludhiana and Halwara, an IAF base, is very close to our house. So whenever any plane flew over my house, I used to run out and think that it must be my uncle and that I would some day fly an aircraft like that. Yes, there was some childhood fantasy, which helped me create what I have created in the film.”

But destiny had another plan for Pankaj Kapoor and he moved towards acting in serials. He has acted in many TV shows such as “Karamchand”, “Neem Ke Ped”, “Office Office” etc. and has also acted in few films.

‘Mausam’ is slated to release on coming Friday, director Pankaj Kapoor says, film has “a sense of Journey as as shows a span of 10 years that the two characters (Shahid and Sonam Kapoor) pass through.”

“It`s a journey through the points or phase they pass in their life. We also call it a love story beyond romance; so there is a new aspect of love that reflects in the story.”

Though Pankaj Kapoor wanted to direct films earlier but he used to get interesting offers of acting in films and couldn’t ignore it.

He says, “My first love and my first instinct are acting. If you see the last 10 years of my work, I got some very interesting parts to play as an actor. So I picked up those roles and got busy with them,” He has delivered powerful performances in “Dharm”, “Maqbool” and “Blue Umbrella”.

He too wanted to act in Mausam but says, “It being my first film, I tried to concentrate on the making of the film. Just by chance I have not given any appearance in the film…I had thought I would definitely do a small cameo. The journey just ended in such a manner that I could not be a part of it on screen”.

Pankaj Kapoor had other scripts ready with him but he wrote ‘Mausam’ especially for Shahid.

“Over the last 20 years I had been writing scripts and I have about four to five scripts already with me. But `Mausam` was specially conceived keeping a young boy of roughly Shahid`s age in mind.

“I have been seeing his growth for the last five years in terms of both his choice of films and his performances, but in `Mausam` people will see him in a different league as an actor,” he said.

Pankaj informed that the ‘Mausam’ has also helped the family bond.

“It was natural…the bonding happened because the entire family was involved in making of the film. My wife Supriya (Pathak) is part of the film and my daughter was working as DA (director`s assistant) in the film.

“Each of us were involved in the film; so it was the family bonding that held our nerves and energies together and helped each of us to stay afloat during the making of the film,” said Pankaj.

“On the one hand, I`m hugely relieved because I have completed the film. On the other hand, I won`t say I am apprehensive, but I am anxious and also a little excited about how audiences, who have accepted me for 30 years and given me a place that I have in the industry, would accept my first film as a director,” he added.

Pankaj was asked if he would start directing another film soon, he said, “I would not take a call on anything for the next six months to a year. I would do a little bit of acting before I take up another direction assignment.”

Earlier Sonam – Shahid starrer film ‘Mausam’ was slated to release on September 16, 2011 but now the film has been postponed for one-week and will release on September 23, 2011.

Sonam Kapoor is not bothered at all with the delay in the release. She says that it has given extra time to promote it.

“I would be able to promote my film for one more week. It’s absolutely fine if the release date got pushed by a week. We have worked very hard and we are waiting for the film to release for a long time. Another seven days don’t matter,” Sonam told reporters.

Sonam will be seen in the film as a ‘Kashmiri girl and Shahid is featured as a Punjabi boy.

Though Sonam has worked in many films such as Saawariya, Delhi-6, Aisha, I Hate Luv Storys and Thank you but she believes that ‘Mausam’ is her first film based on true love story.

“I have never done a perfect love story. The film is about two people who want to be together. Here both of them love each other. I have never done a love story where both of them love each other,” said the actress.

“I know that I am here to stay. I work very hard and hopefully I would be here for a long time,” added Sonam.

Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor starrer film ‘Mausam’ was supposed to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival but now it has been pulled out from there. Organisers gave a statement that they have got information from studio that film had not got regulatory approvals in India.

Mausam’s producer Sheetal Talwar said, “We ran into a delay getting approvals from the Indian Air Force and the Board of Film Certification in India.”

Mausam was to be screened in Toronto on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and a press conference was to be organised with World media but all these got cancelled at last minute.

In Mausam, Shahid Kapoor will be seen as an Indian Air Force Pilot who belongs to Punjab and Sonam Kapoor has been cast opposite him as a girl from Kashmir who belongs to Muslim community.

Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Pankaj Kapoor and music director Pritam etc. were seen celebrating the success of their film’s music.

Bollywood stars Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor are promoting their upcoming film ‘Mausam’. The film is based on a beautiful love story between two of them. Shahid has played the role of Punjabi boy who becomes an Air Force Officer. Sonam will be seen as Kashmiri girl.

‘Mausam’ is slated to release on September 16, 2011.

Take a look at their stills from ‘Mausam’.

Watch new video song “Mallo malli naal yaar de”of ‘Mausam movie’ starring ‘shahid kapoor’, ‘sonam kapoor’. It has been  sung by Tochi Raina, music is from pritam & lyrics are penned by Irshad Kamil.

Watch one more video song ‘Ik tu hi tu hi’ from “Mausam” – A love story beyond romance directed by Pankaj Kapoor. Hans Raj Hans has sung this song.