Shabana Azmi describes What’s Love Got To Do With It? co-star Emma Thompson as warm and generous

Versatile actress Shabana Azmi posted on social media about collaborating with Hollywood star Emma Thompson. The duo has worked in filmmaker Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It? Azmi, 70, who plays an important role in the upcoming film, praised the Academy Award winner for being a ‘generous’ co-star. She also posted a photograph of her and Emma.

The film is a cross-cultural romantic-comedy, is set between London and South Asia. The film marks Kapur’s return to feature-length directorial after his 2007 Cate Blanchett-starrer drama Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
The project is the filmmaker’s first collaboration with Azmi since 1983’s acclaimed Hindi-language family drama Masoom What’s Love Got To Do With It? also stars Lily James of Baby Driver fame and Star Trek: Discovery actor Shazad Latif.

Shabana took to her Twitter and wrote, “Its a wrap for #Emma Thompson. What a warm, generous costar she has been. I will cherish the wonderful times we spent together.”

Its a wrap for #Emma Thompson. What a warm, generous costar she has been. I will cherish the wonderful times we spent together🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/4TTAHlV2yZ

— Azmi Shabana (@AzmiShabana) February 16, 2021

It is written and produced by Jemima Khan, ex-wife of Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan. Shabana Azmi is also working on an international project Halo. In January last year, the Arth actor was rushed to a hospital after she met with a critical accident. In one of her social media posts, the veteran actress has mentioned, “It was at this time last year that i had my near-fatal road accident, Thank you for the prayers of well-wishers around the globe, the security personnel who rescued me, Doctors and Staff of #Kokilaben Ambani Hospital #Tina Ambani that I am left with no trac of it. Deeply grateful,’’ her tweet further read.

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