Mumbai, Dec. 5 :    Mumbai, Dec. 5:  With the Taliban gone, Kabul is back in Bollywood fold. After a gap of five years, a Hindi film is being released next month in the war-ravaged Afghan capital, one of Bollywood's biggest markets in pre-Taliban days. The film, Yeh Dil Aashiqanaa, is based on the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu on December 24, 1999. The hijack ended eight days later in Kandahar with the release of Harkat-ul Mujahideen leader Masood Azhar from prison. 'Afghanistan has always meant a lot to us in Bollywood and we wanted to be the first to go there with a film after a long gap,' said Aruna Irani, producer. With two fresh faces in the lead, the film is a love story built around a hijacking. 'We got the idea from the hijacking of the Indian Airlines aircraft,' Irani, who also acted in the film, said. Hindi films were extremely popular in Afghanistan till the Taliban took over and shut down all movie theatres. Young men danced in the streets of Kabul holding aloft pictures of Hindi film stars and rushed to theatres soon after the Taliban fled the Afghan capital. 'Afghan people love our films. We consider ourselves lucky to be the first to release a film in Kabul,' Kuku Kohli, Irani's husband and the film's director, said. The shooting started early last year after the couple picked newcomers Karan and Zubeda as lead actor and actress. 'We were looking for fresh faces and they fit the bill,' Kohli said. Unlike the real-life hijacking two years ago, in which the government had given in to terrorists' demands after the killing of a passenger, the hero in the film rescues not just his heart-throb, but all other passengers from the clutch of the hijackers and helps authorities to capture them. 'It's a topical story. People would appreciate what we have portrayed in the film,' Kohli said, denying the film, shot in Hyderabad and London, was made with an eye on the Afghan market. When he started shooting last year, he said he had no idea that the film would ever 'see the light of the day' in Afghanisation because it was then held by the Taliban. 'We have now decided to donate the entire collection from that country to Afghan children suffering from the continuing war,' the director said, adding that he expected the film to release in Kabul theatres in mid-January. It would simultaneously be released in India.