Raj Kanwar's sons to resurrect their home banner with a fantasy adventure featuring Prachi Desai
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Veteran filmmaker Raj Kanwar’s sons, Abhay and Karan, are set to resurrect the banner with a fantasy-adventure
Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; August 3, 2017)
Five years after their father’s demise, Abhay and Karan, sons of the late filmmaker Raj Kanwar, known for blockbusters like Anil Kapoor’s Laadla and Judaai, Shah Rukh Khan’s Deewana and Andaaz, which paired Akshay Kumar with Miss Universe Lara Dutta and Miss World Priyanka Chopra, are set to resurrect their home banner with a fantasy-adventure, Kosha. Taking off from Abhay’s anime-style storyboard, the film is presently being shot at Madh island with Prachi Desai as the leading lady.
The producer-duo describes Kosha, directed by debutant Amman Advaita, as a “modern, dark, urban and twisted retelling of several classic fairy tales”.
“Even though my father made entertaining films, he treated them like art-house cinema which is why they remained memorable. Karan and I wanted to make a film we believed in, something imaginative, original and not a reprint of an international DVD,” says 22-year-old Abhay, who has also penned the screenplay and dialogue.
He started out three years ago with a comic series about a disruptive girl with purple locks and her relationship with her younger brother. “I kept working on the images and fine-tuned the story for two years. Last year, I showed it to Karan, who thought we should convert it into a film. We’ve retained more than 60 per cent of the comics,” he reveals.
Karan, who is 25, plans to take the film to the festival circuit later this year and release the film in early 2018. Meanwhile, the makers are working to minimise the VFX for a “real urban” feel by using red lighting, futuristic effects and make-up and shooting at night in moonlight. “The film’s not in the horror space but is high on emotion and the sets reflect that,” informs Abhay, who is all praise for Prachi.
The 28-year-old-actress may not have jammed with Magik in the Rock On!! franchise but in Kosha she plays a rock band member grappling with alcohol and substance abuse. “Prachi’s pushing herself to achieve what we thought no actress would. She believed in a genre that’s risky, it’s not tried and tested and grabbed an opportunity to work with young and new minds. She’s going to stump the audience with her never-seen-before character,” Abhay says.
Five years after their father’s demise, Abhay and Karan, sons of the late filmmaker Raj Kanwar, known for blockbusters like Anil Kapoor’s Laadla and Judaai, Shah Rukh Khan’s Deewana and Andaaz, which paired Akshay Kumar with Miss Universe Lara Dutta and Miss World Priyanka Chopra, are set to resurrect their home banner with a fantasy-adventure, Kosha. Taking off from Abhay’s anime-style storyboard, the film is presently being shot at Madh island with Prachi Desai as the leading lady.
The producer-duo describes Kosha, directed by debutant Amman Advaita, as a “modern, dark, urban and twisted retelling of several classic fairy tales”.
“Even though my father made entertaining films, he treated them like art-house cinema which is why they remained memorable. Karan and I wanted to make a film we believed in, something imaginative, original and not a reprint of an international DVD,” says 22-year-old Abhay, who has also penned the screenplay and dialogue.
He started out three years ago with a comic series about a disruptive girl with purple locks and her relationship with her younger brother. “I kept working on the images and fine-tuned the story for two years. Last year, I showed it to Karan, who thought we should convert it into a film. We’ve retained more than 60 per cent of the comics,” he reveals.
Karan, who is 25, plans to take the film to the festival circuit later this year and release the film in early 2018. Meanwhile, the makers are working to minimise the VFX for a “real urban” feel by using red lighting, futuristic effects and make-up and shooting at night in moonlight. “The film’s not in the horror space but is high on emotion and the sets reflect that,” informs Abhay, who is all praise for Prachi.
The 28-year-old-actress may not have jammed with Magik in the Rock On!! franchise but in Kosha she plays a rock band member grappling with alcohol and substance abuse. “Prachi’s pushing herself to achieve what we thought no actress would. She believed in a genre that’s risky, it’s not tried and tested and grabbed an opportunity to work with young and new minds. She’s going to stump the audience with her never-seen-before character,” Abhay says.
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