Haider 2 on the cards? Vishal Bhardwaj addresses the anticipation

Filmmaker-composer Vishal Bhardwaj has confirmed that sequel of Shahid Kapoor starrer 'Haider' is not happening.

He says that Shahid’s recent haircut should not be misconstrued as a sign of a sequel.
'Shahid ne Baal kata liye, iska yeh matlab thodi Haider 2 ho jayegi. There is no reason to make a second part as Kashmir is in a different stage,' he said.
'I am happy to see that people haven’t forgotten the first part of Haider. But, Haider was connected to Kashmir, and right now I don’t have anything to say on Kashmir, so there is no point of Haider 2 right now.' Vishal added.

Bharadwaj also revealed that genre diversity is paramount to him when choosing a project, point in case his recent directorial 'Khufiya'. 'I have many things in mind while approaching a project. It also matters to me if I have played with any genre or not. Repetition is very boring for me. Espionage is a genre that I always wanted to explore, and when I explored this book, Escape To Nowhere, it had many details about the R&AW operations, and that is what excited me.'
'However, during the pandemic, our perspective towards different things changed, and in that perspective, we are in that wave, hence we are not realising what is happening.' he said.

'And, the middle of the road cinema of me, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Abhishek Choubey, and Dibakar Banerjee, is being preferred to watch on streaming platforms by the audience, unless we do something really out of the box and bring people in. This is the reality right now, but it is also a phase, and yeh phase bhi badlega. Whenever a new phase comes, we feel like this is the end of the world, ki ab yeh digital platforms humein ya humaari filmon ko control karenge, but aise nahi hai, time changes and yeh phase bhi jaayega,' he concluded.

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