I don't consider Boom a debacle: Kaizaad

Critics had a field day when Kaizad Gustad���s Boom came out, terming it ���Boom goes bust!���
But the director had no plans of sitting quiet. Fate played spoilsport once again during the shooting of his next film Mumbai Central, as one of assistant directors was run over by a train. Kaizad too was arrested and later released on bail. The director is now ready with his third offering after Bombay Boys and Boom and is quite excited about it.
Your films are mostly off the beaten track. Does that work better for you than making comparatively safer formulae films?
What���s a safe formula film these days? Nothing is guaranteed. The biggest stars can���t guarantee an opening. Besides I don���t see many movies, so I don���t know what others are doing. Twelve years ago, before the multiplex generation came of age, I made Bombay Boys at a time when formulaic Bollywood was all there was to see. That was a bigger risk and yet it worked better than anything I���ve done since.
What���s happening about Mumbai Central?
Shelved. I can���t imagine revisiting that.
...and the case?
It���s been almost five years and we���re just following the course of the law. What else can we do? The family has a right to know what happened, and I���ve a right to clear my name.
Have you put the debacle of Boom behind you?
I don���t consider Boom a debacle at all. I had a fabulous crew and cast, and I set out to push the envelope a little, didn���t realise I pushed it off the map! Though my producer assures me the distributors were happy, and I have a loyal band of lunatics who loved it more than Bombay Boys but it didn���t work with the public. Sometimes if you push something too hard, it will break. Boom broke, my fault. I guess I screwed up on that one!
What���s your next film Bombil and Beatrice about?
It���s a love story told twice, from His and Her point of view. It���s an old fashioned love story that spans a 100 years. It���s also a modern day thriller. First we see the story as Bombil sees it, then as Beatrice saw it. It���s like Karz, like Madhumati, put through the mixer grinder, set 100 years ago, and today.
What are your future projects?
Bombil and Beatrice releases the same month we start The Rani. It���s a fictional, period epic battle love story set around the events of 1857. I���m making it with some Hollywood backing and a mixed crew and cast from several countries. Also got a play coming out this year, some madness I wrote called Less Than Zero. My real ���future project��� though is my month-old son, Zahaan. He���s changed my life completely! Now I know what I put my parents through!