Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat (2023)

Interesting facts

Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. The film stars debutant Karan Mehta and Alaya F in the lead roles. The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Marrakech Film Festival and Asian premiere at the Hainan Island International Film Festival. Post release, the film was praised by the audiences. Despite these reviews, the film was a huge commercial failure, grossing only ₹25 lakh.

Production

Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat was written by Kashyap in the early 2010s where the initial story was based on his experiences from his teenage years. He initially wrote the story for Alia Bhatt who was then shooting for her debut film Student of the Year (2012) but scrapped as it was a "scary idea" for everyone as it deals with partriarchal conditioning and parenting; Bhatt would later play a minor cameo role in Ugly (2014).

Karan Mehta was cast as the male lead after Aaliyah found him in one of the short films that released in 2016. Kashyap conducted workshops and training in parkour to hone the two principal characters. As one of them has a lisp, Mehta spoke with the locals in Himachal and spent more time with them to understand the nuances of the people living there.

Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat was initially began production in late 2018 and continued for four years due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India. The film was entirely shot in Dalhousie, India and London. Kashyap considered the film to be a struggle financially, as he had sold most of his assets to make the film.

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