Faruk Kabir: Had started first film with a different actor

Updated On: 08 July, 2022 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Ready with Khuda Haafiz 2, director Kabir discusses how Vidyut stepped in to front the action franchise after first-choice actor left the project

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When writer-director Faruk Kabir shot the climax of Khuda Haafiz (2020) that saw Vidyut Jammwal’s character rescue his wife who was abducted and forced into human trafficking, he knew that the love story between the lead characters was only beginning. Soon after the film’s release, the director sat down to write Khuda Haafiz: Chapter 2 Agni Pariksha. “That incident changed them. The wife was raped, and had unimaginable trauma. Vidyut’s character doesn’t know how to reach out to her. Their relationship can’t be normal. I knew that could be the starting point of this story,” recounts Kabir.

Faruk Kabir