Shekhar Kapur’s sequel to his 1983 film Masoom will revolve around the idea of home through an elderly couple residing in a dilapidated house, the filmmaker recently revealed in an interview to US entertainment magazine Variety.

“When you talk to people about home, the first thing they say is that it is property, it is real estate and the second thing they say is ‘What’s it worth?’ The real estate value of your house becomes much more important than what the essential idea for home is. And home is, what is it? It is memories – people growing up, the walls have memories, the sofa where you sit down is a memory. Everything is a memory. So I’m taking that fundamental idea of what is home,” he said.

Based on Erich Segal’s novel Man Woman & Child, Masoom revolves around a married couple and their two daughters whose lives take a turn with the arrival of a boy, who turns out to be the man’s son from an earlier affair. Headlined by Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi, the family drama also featured Jugal Hansraj, Aradhana and Urmila Matondkar as child actors.

“Whenever I look back, and even when I look at What’s Love Got to Do with It? I realise what I was doing then and I’m doing now is making all characters very human, because that’s how I see them – very human. So Masoom is the way of going back to just making the stories of the simplicity of being human and the complexity of being human but staying human and the story being human,” the veteran director observed.

Back in June, Kapur had revealed that the sequel would be titled Masoom… The New Generation.

The 77-year-old director recently shared a throwback image of himself with the child actors of Masoom on Instagram to tell a story about how the film became a massive hit from the brink of getting declared a flop.

Kapur’s latest directorial — What’s Love Got to Do with It? — bagged four awards, including best director, best British film, best screenplay (Jemima Khan) and best-supporting actor for Asim Chaudhry, at the UK’s National Film Awards.