My film with Shruti Haasan will go on floors this April-Kamal Haasan
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The veteran actor-filmmaker's next, a trilingual Hindi-Tamil-Telugu comedy-thriller, will roll this April
Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; March 7, 2016)
Mirror was the first to
report about Kamal Haasan's Bollywood comeback with Amar Hain (June 4),
which he was to direct and act in. Now, we hear the film is off the
shelf. “It was a multi-starrer and kept getting delayed as people wanted
to know more about the story. They might have had plenty of time on
their hands, I didn't. So I decided to move on,“ is the curt response
from the actor-director whose comeback plan has now taken a detour of
sorts.
Haasan's next, a Hindi-Tamil-Telugu trilingual comedy-thriller, will see him share screen space with actress-daughter Shruti for the first time after she appeared in a cameo in his 2000 film, Hey Ram. The duo plays father-daughter with Paresh Rawal in a significant role. “It will go on the floor this April and will be directed by T K Rajeev Kumar,“ the 61-year-old veteran reveals, adding that his firstborn is a big star down South and his production house, like many others, has been queuing up for her dates.
What about Shruti's younger sister Akshara who made her acting debut in Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush starrer Shamitabh? “She has just started out so it would be unfair to scrutinise her career. I am proud that both my daughters have created a niche for themselves without using my name,“ he says. Haasan was the guest of honour at the second edition of Film Preservation and Restoration work shop at the National Film Archives of India in Pune on Sunday. Praising the initiative to preserve Indian celluloid classics, he remembers for mer NFAI director P K Nair who passed away on March 5. “He was a great man, a hero for many, including me,“ he says, reminiscing that it was Nair who often quenched his thirst for good cinema. “There weren't many platforms to watch good films before. When I wanted to watch one, he'd tell me where exactly I would find it.“
Haasan's next, a Hindi-Tamil-Telugu trilingual comedy-thriller, will see him share screen space with actress-daughter Shruti for the first time after she appeared in a cameo in his 2000 film, Hey Ram. The duo plays father-daughter with Paresh Rawal in a significant role. “It will go on the floor this April and will be directed by T K Rajeev Kumar,“ the 61-year-old veteran reveals, adding that his firstborn is a big star down South and his production house, like many others, has been queuing up for her dates.
What about Shruti's younger sister Akshara who made her acting debut in Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush starrer Shamitabh? “She has just started out so it would be unfair to scrutinise her career. I am proud that both my daughters have created a niche for themselves without using my name,“ he says. Haasan was the guest of honour at the second edition of Film Preservation and Restoration work shop at the National Film Archives of India in Pune on Sunday. Praising the initiative to preserve Indian celluloid classics, he remembers for mer NFAI director P K Nair who passed away on March 5. “He was a great man, a hero for many, including me,“ he says, reminiscing that it was Nair who often quenched his thirst for good cinema. “There weren't many platforms to watch good films before. When I wanted to watch one, he'd tell me where exactly I would find it.“
This entry was posted on October 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm, and is filed under
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