Actress Dia Mirza says that her Indo-Iranian film Salaam Mumbai!, opposite Iranian actor Mohammad Reza Golzar, will be out this year.
“My first international Iranian film will be releasing in October and I am really looking forward to that. It was an extraordinary experience, working with an industry that I have deeply admired and looked up to,” Mirza said at the launch of her cover for Health magazine in Mumbai.
“The person starring with me in the film is Iran’s megastar and the kind of love that has been showering my way from Iran has been really really extraordinary. It has been a wonderful ride,” she added.
Mirza plays a medical student in the trilingual film — it’s in Persian, English and Hindi — which was partly shot in Mumbai. Golzar learned Hindi for his role.
Mirza, who also owns the production house Born Free Entertainment with her husband, Love Breakups Zindagi director Sahil Sangha, said: “I’m currently working on three films that we are producing.”
She also ventured into television earlier this year with the show Ganga — The Soul of India, exploring locations and cultures around the Hindu holy river. Any plans for a second season? “Well, there has been a demand for it and it has been a beautiful narrative that has really engaged the audience and enriched people and motivated them.
“I would actually like to traverse civilisations that are influenced by different rivers. So why not Brahmaputra?”
Mirza was last seen in the Bengali film Paanch Adhyay.
