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As north India has been reeling under scorching heat, producer-director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has decided to halt the shooting of "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" saying that most of the scenes have to be shot outdoors and this will happen once the weather is bearable.

"We have taken a summer break because it is all outdoors. Once the summer is over, we plan to go back to the north to shoot it, " he said and added, "We are planning to release it sometime next year."

The film is a biopic on athlete Milkha Singh, fondly called Flying Sikh, and Farhan Akhtar is playing the title role. Sonam Kapoor too features in it.

From thriller "Aks" to social drama "Rang De Basanti", Mehra, who has worked on various genres, says shooting a biopic is much more challenging than making a pure fiction.

"When I decided to make a film, it threw more challenges for me, because I had not done a film on a true life. I knew everything which I was doing. Each scene has been a big responsibility as it belonged to a real life person. Here the challenge was how to do it in an interesting manner, " he said.

"Fortunately, we have a lovely story to tell. The human interest quotient is very high. Whenever I tell the story to my friends, they like it. The script has been written in a very interesting way, " he added.

With experiential films like "Shanghai" and "Gangs of Wasseypur" succeeding at the box office, the director feels that the Hindi film industry is moving in a positive direction, which is the reflection of a changing society.

"There is always a lot to do than what we are actually doing. We made great cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Then we lost out because our society lost out and we started moving towards groupism.

Now the society is changing again and giving importance to prosperity and education. You see this reflecting in cinema also. And there will be a lot more to give to our people rather than just sheer escapism. It all depends on how the country develops, " he said.

Known for her designer threads, the actress has to try real hard to play a village girl!

Fashionista Sonam Kapoor is presently working hard on how to dress down. The actress, known more for her style statements, is preparing to go de-glam to essay a simple village girl in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s biopic on Milkha Singh.

Though the film rolled earlier this year, Sonam was not part of the shoot schedule. She joins the unit in August for the next shooting stint. What’s adding to her excitement is not only going sans make-up and designer label but also the fact that she will be shooting on the India-Pakistan border.

Says Sonam, “I have never been to the Indo-Pak border before and shooting there will be an experience for me. I am very excited to start shooting. I have been working hard to play the character of a village girl.”

She has dressed simply in her earlier films like Delhi 6 and a bit in Mausam. And now, the star feels this will be real stark, as she has not gone so rustic and simple before on screen.

Though her co-star Farhan Akhtar has interacted with the Flying Sikh as preparations for the shoot, Sonam is yet to meet him and his family members. Her character is depicted as bringing about a big change in Milkha Singh’s life.