/> After two back-to-back candyfloss romances in Kal Ho Na Ho and Salaam-e-Ishq, and in the process of shooting the Akshay Kumar actioner Made In China Nikhil Advani is soon going to romance realism on the big screen.

Revealing his plans, Nikhil says, "I want to make a small budgeted film. I always say that. But I end up making big films. But this time I mean it. I want to tell a very very personal story that is waiting within me to be told for a while."

Prod him a little more, and Nikhil reveals more details. "It's the story of a 11-year old boy in a remand home that my wife works in. When she told me this boy's harrowing and tragic story I suggested we make a film on it.

My wife who is with several charitable organizations including Aangan, has warned me that it can have no music and songs. And since everything I do in my life and career is to please my wife I've no choice but to comply."

So is this Nikhil's Black after his Devdas?

The goated filmmaker laughs. "You could say that. Sanjay Bhansali had the courage to go from song dance and drama in Devdas to the hard-hitting realism of Black. I 'd like to think I can achieve that transition.

After the sugar -candy love and romance of Salaam-e-Ishq I've had enough flights of fantasy for a long time. Since it had six love stories woven into one it was like making six different romantic films. Now I need to get back to earth."

Not that this untitled film will be a dry documentary –like tale. "Not at all. It will have music but no songs. I want to do it in one schedule. It's a story that needs to be told."

Interestingly the 11-year old protagonist has been found. "But he isn't the boy whose story is being told in my film. He's another boy in the remand home whom I saw performing at the play.

Basically I want to put forward the theme that a kid who kills someone and the one who has just run away from home shouldn't be categorized as equally culpable in a remand home.

The environment hardens them irrevocably. Organizations such as the one my wife works for, provides therapy to delinquent children through music, drama, storytelling, films. She one day narrated the story of the boy to me."