Filmmaking is like riding a bike. Once you learn riding a bike, you never forget it throughout your life. Similar is filmmaking, you cannot forget it even if you make a comeback after years,” says Kaizad Gustad, who is ready to play his second innings in the tinsel town after ten long years. After Boom in 2003, Kaizad is busy these days with his upcoming film Jackpot, starring Sunny Leone, Naseeruddin Shah and Sachin Joshi.
“Filmmaking comes to me naturally. It’s an absolute pleasure. It is something that can never get out of me. Now I will keep on making films as I am ready with so many scripts. Jackpot is the first in the league,” he says.
Talking about the film, Kaizad says, “Jackpot is a comic con set in Goa. The film revolves around a briefcase stuffed with cash and how it passes from one hand to another. So it is more of a thriller.”
Officially, Kaizad is back after six years because he made a film Bombil and Beatrice in 2007. “Six years after Boom I did not feel like making commercial Hindi films,” says Kaizad while clarifying that he doesn’t make films to earn livelihood but for his own sheer pleasure. “I wasn’t in the mood to direct a film in those years and was busy looking after my kids. I travelled a lot and wrote so many screenplays that they are pouring out of my cupboard now,” he chuckles.
Interestingly, Kaizad grew up with cinema. His grandfather and father owned a cinema hall which influenced him a lot. “I grew up in a very small village in Karnataka. My grandfather used to organise outdoor cinema for villagers,” says Kaizad, recalling his first film that he has seen in the open theatre. “It was Charlie Chaplin’s City Life. I remember people used to come with mattress, blankets and food so as to enjoy the film,” says Kaizad, whose father was not much carried away by the cinema business that he also opened a cinema hall in the same village. “Believe it or not, there were regular shows of Dharamveer for four and a half years and Sholay for five years in that cinema hall,” excitingly says Kaizad.
Therefore, at the age of seven Kaizad knew he will make films only. “But I decided not to rush. Instead, I made a conscious decision to travel across the world so that I can have a clear idea about things around me and incorporate my own experiences in films,” Kaizad signs off.