Tuesday, April 7, 2009

SOUTH INDIAN HERO NITHIN IN RAM GOPAL VERMA NEW FILM "AGYAAT"

Though he hasn't got any recent big hits we can say he's lucky to bag a Bollywood offer that too in  Ram Gopal Verma's film. Nisha kothari plays the lead femle character.

Nithin is hoping that this would give him the much needed break that he is looking for and let us hope he does manage to score a hit there.
Story Idea:
A film unit on a shoot in a far away land and in a certain situation gets trapped deep in a forest and one by one the members start getting killed. They all are terrified not knowing whether it is a man or an animal or a creature or what?
Why I selected a film unit to be the protagonists for this story is because a film unit is literally like a walking office in terms of its various hierarchical elements.
A star who is obsessed with himself, a leading lady who bears with him because of his stardom, a director who thinks he will be the next Steven Spielberg, a producer who thinks that the director is screwing up his film, an assistant director who has a crush on the heroine, a script girl who has quite a few things for the assistant director, a frustrated action director who has a hidden maniacal streak in him, a highly subservient spot boy with a very perverted agenda, are just a few of the assorted characters in this story.
Whatever the entity is as it hunts them down, their suppressed passions come forth and they realize that it is not only their lives they are fighting for but it is also for their loves. As they are killed one after the other the remaining desperate characters struggle to survive the entity which is not visible to them, faster than them, smarter than them and hell bent on destroying them.
The film will be very near to a reality show in a certain sense as in putting a set of people in a certain situation and to see what happens to them.
It will have a cast of unknown or little known actors based on the complete suitability of the way the characters are written in the script.
The entity in the film is really a premise and what really is exciting for me in the story is the human drama of how in a given situation the whole film unit’s hierarchical differences get erased and all of them become as human as anybody else when faced with death.
To capture how their attitudes, personalities and inter-relationships change rapidly in the face of the impending danger is what for me is the most exciting and challenging part.
I am intending to start the film in December and finish the principal photography by January 1st week. There will be quite a lot of Special EFX work after that which will take as long as is required to get the intended effect. The movie will be ready for release in May/June 2009.
The idea from ram gopal verma blog: http://rgvarma.spaces.live.com/

Bollywood's Anil Kapoor to star in TV's '24'


After the huge success of Slumdog Millionaire, in which he acted as a game show host, actor Anil Kapoor is now gearing up for a different role in an American TV show 24.
Kapoor, who won critical acclaim as a game show host in the multiple Oscar-winning film, will have a regular role as a Middle Eastern leader in the eighth season of the thriller, Variety magazine reported. The show will mark Kapoor's debut on American television.
The actor has reportedly clinched the deal with ICM and is all set to star as a leader, who comes to the US for a peacekeeping mission.
Kapoor played Prem Kumar, the host of Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, in Slumdog Millionaire.

Rajinikanth in dual role in Endhiran

Endhiran the  most ambitious project by Rajinikanth and Shankar shooting is reportedly progressing at a very rapid place.According to sources the superstar plays a double role in the movie.One role is of a young robotics scientist from India and the other is of a robot.Here are some of the leaked images of Rajinikanth as a robot in the upcoming film.He appears very young but looks different in the images.
                                                Recently talks are being with SUN studios and HBO to release the picture on a large scale with english subtitles across the globe.The film's budget is expected to be about 120 crores.
                                               The film was unable to keep its name, Robot, due to the English title in Tamil Nadu whose government present tax exemption to films with Tamil titles.The film's scripting is going on as told by Shankar in two interviews. It was subsequently announced that all those who have been committed for Robot should sign an agreement accepting that they will not commit themselves to any other project for the next two years of its production, with an exemption to the female lead,Aishwarya Rai.



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