‘Kunal is normally the funniest particular person within the room, that too from each side of our household.’
IMAGE: Preity Zinta and Kunal Kemmu on the Vibe trailer launch in Mumbai, September 2, 2026. {Photograph}: Panna Bandekar
Key Factors
- Kunal Kemmu turns multi-hyphenate as actor, author, director and producer of Vibe.
- Preity Zinta takes on an motion function as Madam H whereas debutante Vanshika Dhir performs Kemmu’s love curiosity.
- Kemmu reveals how he lastly started working together with his mother-in-law Sharmila Tagore.
Bear in mind Kunal Kemmu’s druggie man who makes a short cameo in his directorial debut Madgaon Specific, starring Divyenndu, Pratik Gandhi and Avinash Tiwary?
The seemingly drug-peddling character will get an evidence within the trailer of Kemmu’s second directorial Vibe. The trailer means that he had overdosed on medicine, after which he went wandering alongside the seashores of Goa.
And it is not only a fan principle. When requested about it on the Vibe trailer launch in Mumbai on Wednesday, Kemmu smiled and urged that the 2 movies may simply share the identical universe.
Madgaon Specific To Vibe
IMAGE: Kunal Kemmu, Vanshika Dhir, Sparsh Srivastava and Preity Zinta on the Vibe trailer launch. {Photograph}: Panna Bandekar
The Vibe trailer introduces Kunal as bumbling Hardik who finds himself and his flatmate Bugs (performed by Laapataa Women and Jamtara fame Sparsh Shrivastav) caught up in a harmful covert mission.
The unlikely duo find yourself changing into protectors of the nation below the watch of Madam H, performed by Preity Zinta. Naturally, issues do not precisely go in keeping with plan, resulting in a comedy of errors.
On the trailer launch, Preity stated she had an “absolute blast” studying the script. She felt the movie was the proper change of tempo after engaged on the emotionally taxing Batwara 1947.
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Why Preity Zinta For Madam H?
Kunal Kemmu has gone full multi-hyphenate with Vibe. He acts within the movie, writes it, directs it and can be certainly one of its producers.
He revealed how Preity got here to thoughts for Madam H, the movie’s no-nonsense nationwide safety chief, whose identify seems to be a playful nod to Judi Dench’s iconic M from latest James Bond movies.
“After I was writing the movie, I reached a degree the place I used to be serious about who might play this character. I’m an enormous Preity Zinta fan. A thought crossed my thoughts: ‘What if the one that walks in is Preity Zinta herself?’ These individuals would say, ‘Preity Zinta? You’re an secret agent?’, and he or she would reply, ‘What did you assume? That I acquired married and moved to America? That is my actual life. I’m truly a authorities agent’.”
Kemmu ultimately dropped the meta joke, however when it got here to casting, he realised he had by no means seen Preity do motion earlier than.
“I felt no person would count on it, which made it the proper casting alternative. The one problem was getting her to say sure. That is how the journey started. I’m very completely happy that she agreed to do the movie, and I feel she seems to be incredible as Madam H.”
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Soha Cheers Her Hubby
IMAGE: Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu on the Vibe trailer launch. {Photograph}: Panna Bandekar
On the launch, Kunal Kemmu was joined by his spouse Soha Ali Khan, who fortunately performed cheerleader whereas teasing him about his sense of humour and comedian timing.
Soha stated Kunal is normally the “funniest particular person within the room”, and never simply with their associates or colleagues — he holds the identical repute on each side of their prolonged households.
“Kunal is normally the funniest particular person within the room, that too from each side of our household.”
Preity was visibly stunned and requested, “Actually?”
Soha laughed and replied, “Shaadi ho ya funeral, he’ll make you chuckle!”
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Directing His Mom-In-Regulation
IMAGE: Kunal Kemmu and Vanshika Dhir on the Vibe trailer launch. {Photograph}: Panna Bandekar
The most important shock of the Vibe trailer is Sharmila Tagore, making a uncommon display screen look 16 years after her final theatrical launch, Break Ke Baad. She was not too long ago seen within the OTT movie Gulmohar, which received Greatest Hindi Movie on the seventieth Nationwide Movie Awards.
So how did Kemmu persuade his mother-in-law to return on board?
“I requested her if she would play this half, which was a cameo, and he or she requested for the synopsis of the movie. So, I gave her the synopsis, and he or she stated that was only a trick query, she was anyway going to do it. So, she was gracious,” he stated.
Directing Sharmila, as Kemmu stated, was one thing he had at all times wished to do.
“For me, it is a kind of checkboxes that I acquired to tick, one thing I by no means knew I might be capable of. I’m very completely happy, and I’m very proud that I might name ‘motion’ and ‘reduce’ on a legend like her.”
IMAGE: Staff Vibe on the trailer launch occasion. {Photograph}: Panna Bandekar
Vibe releases in theatres on September 18.
