Majid Majidi is currently shooting in India for his next film titled Beyond The Clouds in which Shahid Kapoor's brother Ishaan Khatter will be seen as the main lead.

On choosing a newcomer instead of mainstream actors, he said, "I work with professionals in my movies. If you see my films, I pick up people randomly from the actual habitat. In my movie, if there is an old lady or a young man, a small child, if I picked them before they had ever seen the lens (of a camera), they come out as natural actors and I get the maximum out of them." 

About the look test of DP, Majid said, "My producers tell me that Deepika had shown some interest in the beginning and it is because of that, that I wanted her to be part of my movie." 

He also said, "And when I asked her for a look test, it was not to doubt her professionalism. She is an excellent actress. But how much she befits the role, that is in my vision, I wanted to see. Let me tell you though, that the circumstances were such that they weren’t favourable and nothing materialised of it."

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