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Ajay Devgn’s Jigarthanda remake to feature Farhan Akhtar and Sanjay Dutt as filmmaker and gansgter?
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Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; October 7, 2017)
Mirror (August 31) was the first to inform that Ajay Devgn is producing a film featuring Sanjay Dutt and Farhan Akhtar in the lead. It will be directed by Nishikant Kamat and will roll by December- January.
Last month, Farhan confirmed the news (Mirror, September 9) revealing further that it’s a big action-comedy-drama. “I liked Nishikanth’s last film, Drishyam, very much and I’ve known Sanju for a really long time. Interestingly, we have similar tastes in music but we’ve never discussed working together. He’s a great chap,” Farhan had pointed out.
Now, Mirror has learnt that like Drishyam, the Hindi remake of Jeethu Joseph’s 2013 Malayalam hit of the same name which had Ajay take over from Mohanlal as the leading man, Ajay and Nishikant’s next is also a remake. It adapts the 2014 National Award-winning Tamil black comedy-thriller, Jigarthanda.
The film’s title is inspired by a cold beverage available in Tamil Nadu. The original was written and directed by Karthik Subbaraj. Producer Kathiresan had been scouting for a filmmaker for the Hindi remake after the Kannada and Telugu rights were sold. The film will now be produced by Ajay and his collaborator-producer, Abhinav Shuklaa, under their joint banner. “Nishikant is closely working on the film’s creatives with Farhan and Ajay,” a source informed.
Farhan will play a struggling filmmaker while Sanjay is a gangster. The original was set in Madhurai but the adaptation will be based in Maharashtra. South star Siddharth had played an assistant director who, after being thrown out of a reality TV show, decides to make a film on real-life gangster, Assault Sethy, played by Bobby Simha, who bagged the National Award for Best Supporting Actor for his quirky yet gritty portrayal of a don. “There were several other characters in the original. Casting for the Hindi remake is presently underway,” the source added.
Ajay Devgn to make film on Jaswant Singh Gill & his rescue mission for 64 miners?
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The
actor will play Jaswant Singh Gill, the engineer who rescued 64 miners
in West Bengal in 1989, in Tinu Suresh Desai’s next project
Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; June 20, 2017)
Ajay Devgn is currently shooting for Milan Luthria’s Baadshaho and is set to resume work on Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal Again soon. Recently, Mirror reported that he is also set to produce a TV show on yoga guru Ramdev. Now, we hear that the actor has joined hands with filmmaker Abhinav Shuklaa for a film on Jaswant Singh Gill, the chief engineer who in 1989 saved the lives of 64 miners at the Mahabir Colliery of Raniganj in West Bengal. Ajay, who will feature in the film, has roped in Tinu Suresh Desai (director of the Akshay Kumar-starrer Rustom) to helm the project.
“The makers have acquired the official rights to the life story of J S Gill for the yet-untitled film. Work on the script has already begun and Ajay will go through extensive prep before he starts shooting next year,” a source close to the development informed Mirror.
In November 1989, when around 220 miners were breaking coal walls by triggering blasts, the wall of an underground water table adjacent to where they were working cracked and the water gushed in.
Six miners lost their lives and while the ones closest to the lift were pulled out, 64 miners remained trapped inside. A 2.5 m tall steel capsule was created and attached to a crane which was lowered into the pit. Gill, who was trained in rescue procedures, volunteered to bring the miners back up and stayed down till the last miner was pulled out to safety. He emerged at the end of the six-hour ordeal to applause, with onlookers picking him up on their shoulders for a celebratory jig.
Ajay Devgn is currently shooting for Milan Luthria’s Baadshaho and is set to resume work on Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal Again soon. Recently, Mirror reported that he is also set to produce a TV show on yoga guru Ramdev. Now, we hear that the actor has joined hands with filmmaker Abhinav Shuklaa for a film on Jaswant Singh Gill, the chief engineer who in 1989 saved the lives of 64 miners at the Mahabir Colliery of Raniganj in West Bengal. Ajay, who will feature in the film, has roped in Tinu Suresh Desai (director of the Akshay Kumar-starrer Rustom) to helm the project.
“The makers have acquired the official rights to the life story of J S Gill for the yet-untitled film. Work on the script has already begun and Ajay will go through extensive prep before he starts shooting next year,” a source close to the development informed Mirror.
In November 1989, when around 220 miners were breaking coal walls by triggering blasts, the wall of an underground water table adjacent to where they were working cracked and the water gushed in.
Six miners lost their lives and while the ones closest to the lift were pulled out, 64 miners remained trapped inside. A 2.5 m tall steel capsule was created and attached to a crane which was lowered into the pit. Gill, who was trained in rescue procedures, volunteered to bring the miners back up and stayed down till the last miner was pulled out to safety. He emerged at the end of the six-hour ordeal to applause, with onlookers picking him up on their shoulders for a celebratory jig.
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