Film’s success goes to star and failure to director, says Hansal Mehta

Hansal Mehta, who won critical acclaim with Aligarh, Shahid and Scam 1992, has just had his first major release since Faraaz in 2022. The Buckingham Murders, a crime thriller with Kareena Kapoor-Khan in the lead role. Mehta tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar in a zoom interview about what went behind the making of his second international project.

The Buckingham Murders is your second international project after Gandhi (in the making). How did it come about?

The script that came to me was already set in the UK. I have been wanting to shoot something outside of India, that reflects