Ajay Devgan and Kajol, who have been doing the rounds of reality TV shows passionately promoting their forthcoming film U Me And Hum, say they hope to make couples rediscover the ‘Hum’ within themselves through their film.
The husband and wife team, who are appearing together on screen 8 years after Raju Chacha in 2000, becomes animated when asked to explain the rather strange title of the film, which marks Ajay’s debut as a director.
While the ‘U’ and ‘Me’ in the title are easy to understand and symbolize the individuality of the couple, ‘Hum’ symbolizes their togetherness and stresses the need for them to act as one every now and then.
Devgan also explains the tagline for the film – ‘Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.’
When two people marry they tend to think they have covered the distance between themselves but “you never cover the distance. You just keep taking a step forward every day – through love, through fights, through understanding, through not understanding, through situations, through problems. It is a growth which keeps happening…”
“This film is not made with the intention of being a sermon about relationships. Nor is it made to prove my talent as a director,” says Devgan.
“It is a completely commercial and entertaining film. I am not trying to prove a point that I am a pseudo intellectual,” he adds.
Aksed if there was an element of rediscovery for him and Kajol through the film, his response was interesting.
“Through the film I have tried to project ideals that I really believe in. I may not have achieved those ideals to the full extent. The important thing is to believe in them and make the effort to achieve them,” he says.
“The idea is to create characters that you want to be like and then make the effort to be like them.
“I have not tried to achieve it through verbose drama but through normal life situations, humor and emotions.”
Devgan succinctly explains his goal.
“I will think that I have succeeded with the film when a couple watching the film is holding each other’s hands at the end of it.”
