The beginning: Kick was conceived at the end of 2012, when Sajid Nadiadwala offered me the film.
It’s about: The high you get when doing something adventurous and fun. Nadiadwala decided to direct a movie after three decades of being in the business for the kick of it. I took on the challenge of writing my first screenplay for the kick of it.
The challenge: A screenplay is about one-fourth the length of a novel, but has to convey as much. Also, unlike a novel, your success is judged by the box-office collections. The challenge is to make every minute entertaining as the audience expects a Salman Khan film to be larger than life.
Star struck: There’s no one like Khan. I bunked college to watch his movies and here he was bringing to life scenes I had written — what a kick! Jacqueline [Fernandez] is lovely and we’ve become good friends.
Class or mass: I fit no definition. The literary world sees me as writing for the common man. The film industry considers me an elitist. As a screenplay writer, I’m not trying to change the genre and make a ‘thinking’ movie.
