&quot;One of the initial twists to my film was to attempt something, which I can give a unique angle to. This happened at the scripting level. We started adapting that angle on love,&quot; Tiwary told IANS. <img alt="'Isaaq'" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jun/Prateik-Amyra-Dastur.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 424px;" /> In &quot;Issaq&quot;, Prateik and Amyra Dastur play the two tragic lovers, but the entire focus is not just on them. &quot;To make it novel, you have to start from the basics - how you treat the meaning of love and the treatment of the surrounding cast. We realised that the film needed more antagonists to oppose the love, which the lovers have,&quot; he said. The filmmaker has set this tragic love story in Benaras, Uttar Pradesh (UP) and has valid reasons for doing so. &quot;You cannot make Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary context in Europe anymore... where the feudal system has been destroyed, but if I go to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, it still exists. We found this in Benaras. You keep finding a context where your story can be set in a youthful character,&quot; said the director who earlier made &quot;Dil Dosti Etc&quot; and is currently scripting his gangster movie &quot;Mohabbat Miyan&quot;. Talking about the cast, Tiwary said: &quot;Prateik drew my attention from his first film (&#39;Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na&#39;) and &#39;Dhobi Ghat&#39;. I approached him and then I had to wait for a couple of films, which he had signed, to complete. He has a presence on screen,&quot; he said. &quot;Amyra was a long search. When I saw Amyra, a Parsi girl, she was still in school and could not speak Hindi properly, but there was something about her. It was more of a director&#39;s instinct. She had this head-strong character, which Bachi (the character) needed,&quot; he said. The audience approval and critic ratings are equally important for Tiwary. &quot;One cannot forget that we are in a medium seen by all. Like many others and most of the directors, I also look for an audience, which likes my film. I don&#39;t see a divide here - critics are a part of the film&#39;s audience... one hopes that critics and audiences like the film. I will be happy if it is seen widely and discussed,&quot; he said.u00a0

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"Issaq" is director Manish Tiwary's version of Shakespeare's tragic drama "Romeo And Juliet" and he says he wanted to give it a unique twist thus he thought about having more antagonists to oppose the two lovers in his film

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