What sparked off the idea of taking six newly-weds on a four-day honeymoon tour?

It started out with a track I had written, the track featuring Abhay (Deol) and Minissha (Lamba), that was a tongue-in-cheek comment on the concept of perfect love. I had intended to develop it into a short feature. Then, I met some friends who had been on a honeymoon package tour and was intrigued by the stories they had to tell. My parents’ perfect honeymoon too had gone wrong when dad fell asleep and mom got left behind on the highway though I didn’t put any of that into my script. But I put six just-married couples on a bus from Mumbai to Goa with a disc jockey, and let the audience be a privy to their dreams and desires, their fears and fantasies.

It’s an interesting idea but the episodic structure and ensemble cast are not novel concepts. Though we have at least two similar films coming up, Just Married and Metro, the fact remains that such films, from Musafir to Salaam-e-Ishq, rarely meet up to the audience’s expectations of more stars, entertainment and value for money.

I wouldn’t agree. Dil Chahta Hai worked...So did Page 3 even without stars.

And you see the trend catching on?

I don’t see it as a trend. It’s just a coincidence that we’ve had some similarly structured films coming together. I guess people are talking because after 70-odd love stories they are different. For me there was no choice because the story demanded this kind of structure. This was how Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.had to be. Six different love stories juxtaposed against each other.

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