Filmmaker Rahul Rawail says a film he has planned on Irving Wallace's bestseller "The Fan Club", focussing on the star-fan relationship, will be his sexiest film to date.

"It just might be that. I don't mind making a sexy film as long as the sex and nudity are required. It's when the sexy scenes are out of place that they get cheesy," says the director.

Keen to put behind him the unsavoury incidents surrounding his last film "Jo Bole se Nihal", the screening of which was stopped in many places after the May 22 blasts in two New Delhi theatres, Rahul says his new film will be "my take" on the book.

"They killed my film 'Jo Bole se Nihal'. Religious leaders declared my comedy would cause bloodshed on the roads. The government silently accepted this absurd theory... What sort of a democracy is this?" he fumes.

A section of Sikhs staged protests against the film, saying some scenes offended their religious sentiments.

"I want a new face to play the 18-year-old boy who has just discovered the pleasures of sex," says Rahul of his new project.

Rahul has in the past given smash hits like "Betaab" and "Love Story" and also introduced, among others, Sunny Deol, Amrita Singh, Kumar Gaurav and Aishwarya Rai (in "Aur Pyar Ho Gaya", her first Hindi film).

"Ideally I'd have liked an established face to play the other key role of a sexy star who's kidnapped (according to the story of 'The Fan Club'). But stars, I've realised, give too much grief. I'd rather cast newcomers in both key roles."

The "Fan Club" isn't the only film that Rahul wants to make.

"I'm seriously thinking of making a 'Monsoon Wedding' kind of ensemble comedy but set during a death instead of a wedding in the family. If you look at the atmosphere at a wedding or a funeral you'd see there's very little difference in our society between the two.

"I want to portray the lighter side of death. But I'm not very sure if I should make it a slapstick comedy or as real as 'Monsoon Wedding'," says this director of such hard-hitting dramas as "Dacait" and "Arjun".