I told him there are many stories about how Elizabeth his first international film finally happened but what is the real story? Shekhar Kapur was rather matter of fact, said, “The fact is that Hollywood did not chase me, I chased them. After Bandit Queen I wasn’t willing to make another Hindi film so I arrived in Los Angeles and booked myself into a hotel. I began visiting production houses and one day, one of them was convinced by my story telling and I signed on the dotted line.
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them. I did and therefore it happened to me and when it did, there was no time to celebrate because I had to begin planning my production the very next moment. Elizabeth was big scale project but for me is not a story about the queen but the story about a woman, her anxieties, her passion, her love”.
To be continued