"Rahman Sahab is doing the music for Window Seat," reveals Imtiaz Ali. Window Seat is the working title of Imtiaz' next film starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone that will go on floors in the middle of 2014. "There's this phase that I'm thinking of this term window seat a lot. Everything I'm doing or naming, I'm calling it window seat. My production house is called Window Seat Films, as you said an article I wrote earlier this year in The Times of India, was called Window Seat in Kashmir, With Ranbir Kapoor," Imtiaz says.
Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone are at the peak of their career. Did Imtiaz make any changes in the original script of Window Seat to accommodate the growing superstar appeal of his lead pair? "When you have people who are commercially strong it takes off the pressure. But I don't consider it that way. There is a story I'm interested in making and Ranbir-Deepika are the right choice and we just try and make a great film which most people enjoy. That's all you can do." Is it a love story? "It's a boy and girl story. All the stories I make end up being love stories. I don't know why that happens," Imtiaz says with a smile.
Imtiaz Ali's next release is Highway starring Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt. Ranbir Kapoor in a Bollywood Hungama video interview had recently stated that he has seen Highway and he rated it as one of the best films that he has ever seen. "Ranbir is just being a friend. He has inspired me to make Highway. He wasn't meant to be in the film but he pushed me to make this film and said that it's going to be an important film in my career," Imtiaz says. The first look trailer of Highway will be out in the middle of December 2013.