Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra feels his upcoming film on boxing, Toofaan” is an underdog tale about “spreading the love” and this will be the reason people can connect with it.
Rakeysh said, “Toofaan is a story of an underdog and most importantly, it’s a story about spreading love rather than creating differences. Every country, whether rich or poor, is going through some issue or the other and we all carry wounds.
Toofaan is not an attempt to scratch those wounds but to apply a soothing balm.
Anybody from any part of the world will identify with that”.
He further said boxing is a sport that people from all countries can relate to.
“Boxing is one of the most famous sports in the world — America, South America, Russia, and Europe among others are all boxing countries. So, there is identification with the film all over the world”.
He also said,” Toofaan also has a very strong and assertive role of the female protagonist. While we’ve seen the emergence of female power in the last decade, there are miles to go.
We have to question and shed our beliefs of how we look at the other sex and our biases and Mrunal (Thakur)’s role as Ananya does just that.
The diaspora around and especially women will relate to it’.
The movie Toofaan will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 21st May.
