Showing posts with label Azure Entertainment. Show all posts
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Shruti Haasan in John Abraham's Rocky Handsome; releasing on Feb 6, 2015
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Roshmilla Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 7, 2014)
In an interview to Mirror (December 30, 2013), hours before he flew out to Los Angeles to quietly tie the knot with girlfriend Priya Runchal, John Abraham had excitedly spoken about his next home production, Rocky Handsome. The actor described it as “Force to the power of 10”. But he promptly laughed off the vision of another Hulk with tattooed biceps and a 12-pack saying, “This time Nishi (director Nishikant Kamath) wants a lean killing machine.”
Now Mirror has it that Rocky Handsome is an official remake of South Korea’s highest grossing film of 2010, The Man From Nowhere. The stylised action-thriller follows the journey of a lone crusader, played by Won Bin, who goes on a murderous rampage against the drug mafia when the only person he cares for, a seven-year-old girl, is taken from him, along with her mother.
“It’s a universal story and its USP is the emotional connect between the protagonist and the child. We bought the rights and took it to John who loved it, so did Nishi,” says Sunir Kheterpal, whose company, Azure Entertainment, is coproducing the film with John’s JA Entertainment.
While the original, one of the most critically acclaimed action films to come out of South Korea in the last decade, was a gritty piece of cinema, the Bollywood version will be more commercial and will have some song and dance thrown in. “It will have four songs composed by ensemble music directors, like Vicky Donor. But the highlight of our film is the action. We are getting action directors from abroad—Eastern Asia—for the stunts,” said Kheterpal.
Rocky Handsome rolls in May in Goa. Added Khetarpal, “We’ve locked February 6, 2015, as the release date. The film co-stars Shruti Haasan and an eight-year-old girl whose identity we wouldn’t like to reveal at the moment.”
Abbas-Mustan to direct Saif Ali Khan in The Count of Monte Cristo remake
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Roshmilla Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; March 21, 2014)
Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 literary classic, The Count Of Monte Cristo, has anchored on Bollywood shores after numerous international adaptations.
The story of a wronged man, who unearths a treasure on his way to revenge and true love, will be directed by Abbas-Mustan and produced by Sunir Kheterpal of Azure Entertainment.
A source close to the developments told Mirror, “Saif Ali Khan will be playing a businessman in this film. There will be two heroines opposite him; one will be a younger actress and another six years older than him.”
Kheterpal confirmed the news saying, “Yes, we are working on an adaptation of the novel with Saif in the lead. The revenge drama is right up Abbas-Mustan’s alley. The film is still untitled and will release in 2015.”
Mustan added that film will not be an outand-out adaptation as the story and screenplay are their own and different from that of the novel’s.
“We gave Saif a one-and-a-half hour narration before he left for Mauritius for the shoot of Humshakals. He liked it and after he returned we met him with a bound script,” says the filmmaker who’s waiting for the actor to return to Mumbai from Phantom’s Chandigarh schedule, to work out the film’s details.
The director duo has worked with the actor earlier in Main Khiladi Tu Anari and the Race franchise. But as Mustan points out, the first one was a two-hero film with Akshay Kumar and in Race and Race 2 too he shared the screen with two heroes—Akshaye Khanna and Anil Kapoor in the first and Anil and John Abraham in the second.
“This is a solo hero project. Tentatively, we should roll in October, after Phantom opens on October 2. But there could be a two-three months time lag,” Mustan says.
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