{"id":29304,"date":"2025-09-21T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29304\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:16:16","slug":"thoughts-in-life-dont-come-in-a-linear-way-to-me-like-my-films-imtiaz-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29304\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts in life don&#8217;t come in a linear way to me like my films: Imtiaz Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on: Sept 21, 2025 10:54 am IST <\/p>\n<p>    Imtiaz Ali last directed Amar Singh Chamkila that released digitally.     <\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali visited the capital on Friday to launch The Hapless Voyager, the debut book for his childhood friend-turned-author, Satyartha Mishra. \u201cI still remember the taste of parantha and aachaar that Satyartha\u2019s mother used to feed us. Back then Satyartha never showed me the kindness of sharing his lunchbox,\u201d he said, adding, &#8220;We had a certain upbringing. Our parents taught us to respect others and least for oneself. This is the reason we have ability to love everyone but not ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_sb_imtiyaz_ali__17__720_1758432355427_1758432387435.jpg\" alt=\"Imtiaz Ali was recently in Delhi to launch the debut book of his childhood friend.\" title=\"Imtiaz Ali was recently in Delhi to launch the debut book of his childhood friend.\"\/>   Imtiaz Ali was recently in Delhi to launch the debut book of his childhood friend.    <\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old, whose films Love Aaj Kal (2009), Rockstar (2011), Highway (2014), Tamasha (2015), Love Aaj Kal (2020) have been shot in Delhi, also stated that his hometown Patna is not a glamorous city. \u201cWe tend to make them realise that they shouldn\u2019t be proud of themselves for belonging to Patna, unlike how one is proud of Lucknow and its culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:<a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/htcity\/cinema\/except-border-2-all-new-films-featuring-diljit-dosanjh-will-be-opposed-including-imtiaz-alis-say-film-federations-101751631559139.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/htcity\/cinema\/except-border-2-all-new-films-featuring-diljit-dosanjh-will-be-opposed-including-imtiaz-alis-say-film-federations-101751631559139.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/htcity\/cinema\/except-border-2-all-new-films-featuring-diljit-dosanjh-will-be-opposed-including-imtiaz-alis-say-film-federations-101751631559139.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz&#8217;s films are mostly human dramas and travelogues that are stitched in a non-linear manner. \u201cThoughts don\u2019t come in a linear fashion. I could think of something when I was in the 8th standard and I could think of something about yesterday or today right after each other. I wouldn\u2019t think of anything in the sequence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Author Satyartha said, \u201cWe were going to Ajmer and he was constantly writing on his laptop and that\u2019s how Highway was born. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any other director who shows men\u2019s vulnerability like Imtiaz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Sept 21, 2025 10:54 am IST Imtiaz Ali last directed Amar Singh Chamkila that released digitally.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1558,458,19908,146,85,25307,46,25310,25309,25308],"class_list":{"0":"post-29304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bollywood","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-delhi","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-imtiaz-ali","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-love-aaj-kal","16":"tag-rocksta","17":"tag-tamasha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}