filmmaker muzaffar ali is back in lucknow and preparing for the release of his film jaanisaar early next year i am getting the posters made for the movie in new york from a very famous artiste informs ali when we met him at his residence in qaiserbagh recently set during the revolt of 1857 the film ali says is his effort to revive the history of lucknow like for instance there are a lot of misconceptions about nawab wajid ali shah that he was a characterless and wasted person i have tried to depict otherwise as to how much he has contributed to the culture of lucknow and he was responsible for the revival of kathak he was a great poet too though he is not been shown in the film there is a mention of him as he was living in kolkata at that timeread muzaffar alis raqs renamed jaanisaar starring pakistani actor imran abbas and fashion designer pernia qureshi the film also stars several local wellknown people haan there are several close friends in the film that is the charm of shooting in your city sab dost mil ke kaam kar lete hain says ali with a smile ask ali how he feels about the up governments new policy of giving a grant of rs 2 crore to a film 50 of which is shot in the city and he says it will indeed benefit the state of course thats a big incentive for any filmmaker but my only request is that the script first be examined by people to see whether the story will benefit the state or not the depiction of lucknow films in lucknow is either of the nawabi culture or the gundagardi there is so much more to be shown so the scripts should be read carefully and only then the grant should be given says ali who has already got an idea of his next film formulating in his mind abhi the idea is very premature i am only concentrating on jaanisaar just now after that ill start work on the next one probe him further about the story of that film and ali says its set in the past only but closer to the partition time it will again be an intense love story wonder if he has a fixation with history and ali again smiles and says yes i strongly feel that we should not be disconnected with our past we and particularly the youth should know what our history is and i feel cinema is the best medium to do that it has such a far reach and thats the best way to tell people about our history but does he feel that films about love and history will work in todays times when action films rule ab yeh toh destiny bhi hai but frankly main film banata hoon apne dil se i am not market or money driven my films are made from the heart if they become a