'Love in Tokyo' not a remake of the original film: Arif Ali

Director Arif Ali, who is currently working on the casting for his upcoming Indo-Japanese film "Love in Tokyo", has clarified that his project is not a remake of the 1966 hit movie of the same name.
The cross-culture love story will have an Indian male lead and a Japanese actress.
"I am doing this film called 'Love in Tokyo'. We are working on the casting. The film will have a popular Japanese actress and an established actor from Bollywood. We are looking at young actors who look 25-27 years old. Talks are on but we can't share names at the moment," Arif told PTI.

Notably, the 1966 hit Bollywood film "Love in Tokyo", starring noted actors Asha Parekh and Joy Mukherjee, is still fondly recalled by cine lovers, specially for its very popular song "Sayonara".
However, the "Lekar Hum Deewana Dil" helmer has clarified that except the title, nothing has been borrowed from that film.
"It's a fictitious story. It's not a remake. Many years ago a movie with the same name was made but our film has nothing to do with the original film at all, except the title nothing is same," he said.

The shooting for the film will begin mid-year.
"It will be shot mostly in Japan, according to the season over there. We will shoot in India some basic stuff for few days, and most of the film will be shot in Japan as the story is based there," Arif said.

The movie will be co-produced by Arif's director brother Imtiaz Ali's Window Seat Films and Japan's entertainment conglomerate Shochiku.
The film will mostly be shot in Hindi as Arif said, "It's a Hindi commercial film for the Hindi market.