Showing posts with label Kabir Lal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kabir Lal. Show all posts
Riteish Deshmukh joins the cast of upcoming Marathi thriller, Adrushya
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Mihir Bhanage (BOMBAY TIMES; July 19, 2021)
We had earlier reported about actors Pushkar Jog and Manjari Fadnnis coming together for the Marathi film, Adrushya. We’ve now exclusively learnt that the Kabir Lal directorial will also feature Riteish Deshmukh in a pivotal role.
Interestingly, Kabir and Riteish’s bond dates back to the latter’s debut film, Tujhe Meri Kasam, for which Kabir was the cinematographer. Happy about collaborating with the cinematographer-director again, Riteish says, “Kabir Lal is the reason I am in films. He had seen me on a Subhash Ghai film’s set where I had just gone to see the shoot. Maybe he thought that I wanted to be an actor, although I had nothing in mind about getting into films then. So, when Tujhe Meri Kasam (TMK) was being made, he recommended me for the film. He was the cinematographer for the film which launched my career.”
Riteish adds, “It feels great to be reuniting with him for a film after almost two decades. We shot for TMK in 2001. The fact that Adrushya is his first Marathi directorial makes this collaboration special. We had a lot of fun bonding and recalling old days while shooting.”
Besides Pushkar and Manjari, Adrushya also features Saurabh Gokhale, reportedly in a negative role, and Ajay Kumar Singh. While details about the film and Riteish’s role in it haven’t been divulged, the film is said to be adapted from the Spanish film Julia’s Eyes. This will be Riteish’s third Marathi outing as an actor, after Lai Bhaari and Mauli. He is also slated to appear as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in an upcoming Marathi trilogy on the Maratha warrior king, to be helmed by Nagraj Manjule.
Anees Bazmee's brief was to make the Burj Khalifa look spectacular-DOP Kabir Lal
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Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 20, 2015)
Cinematographer Kabir Lal, who made Aishwarya Rai look like a dream in
Taal, chased Mahima Chaudhary through the sarson ka khets in Pardes and
turned the audience teary-eyed as Shah Rukh Khan crooned Har ghadi badal
rahi hai in Kal Ho Naa Ho has been waiting for another big-budget,
larger-than-life entertainer for the last few years. So when he bumped
into writer director Anees Bazmee at a party, he begged the director to
give him a film like Singh Is King and No Entry. Anees obliged by
signing Kabir for the sequel of his 2007 hit, Welcome.
This was 2013 and two years later, the DOP has wrapped up Welcome Back. "It's been the most thrilling 24 months of my life as I got to film two of the most challenging sequences in my career. The first is the opening shot and second comes post the interval. Anees's brief was to make the Burj Khalifa look spectacular," reminisces Kabir, adding that producer Feroz Nadiadwala got permission to film on top of the world's tallest building and also under it. "I mounted a helicam on the window of the chopper and shot the opening sequence of Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar as Manju Pandey and Uday Shetty walking out of the building, head held high."
In Part 2, John Abraham and Shruti Haasan fall in love and face the wrath of the Middle Eastern don, Naseeruddin Shah. "This is the second sequence I was raving about earlier. We filmed inside the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi which passes for the don's haveli in the film," he reveals. "There were so many restrictions on our movements and we had to shoot the palace in parts. It was tedious! We would start lighting the set for a shot at 3am and were still at it eight hours later," he sighs tiredly at the memory.
To make it worse, the entire crew had to be inside the palace and there wasn't enough space for the camera to pan, so Kabir decided to shoot the scenes like the 1990-Hollywood, action-comedy film, Dick Tracy. "I imagined John as the simpleton who is trying to battle a united mob. Like the earlier film, one of my favourites, I kept the colour scheme bright and the costumes brighter," he laughs.
This was 2013 and two years later, the DOP has wrapped up Welcome Back. "It's been the most thrilling 24 months of my life as I got to film two of the most challenging sequences in my career. The first is the opening shot and second comes post the interval. Anees's brief was to make the Burj Khalifa look spectacular," reminisces Kabir, adding that producer Feroz Nadiadwala got permission to film on top of the world's tallest building and also under it. "I mounted a helicam on the window of the chopper and shot the opening sequence of Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar as Manju Pandey and Uday Shetty walking out of the building, head held high."
In Part 2, John Abraham and Shruti Haasan fall in love and face the wrath of the Middle Eastern don, Naseeruddin Shah. "This is the second sequence I was raving about earlier. We filmed inside the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi which passes for the don's haveli in the film," he reveals. "There were so many restrictions on our movements and we had to shoot the palace in parts. It was tedious! We would start lighting the set for a shot at 3am and were still at it eight hours later," he sighs tiredly at the memory.
To make it worse, the entire crew had to be inside the palace and there wasn't enough space for the camera to pan, so Kabir decided to shoot the scenes like the 1990-Hollywood, action-comedy film, Dick Tracy. "I imagined John as the simpleton who is trying to battle a united mob. Like the earlier film, one of my favourites, I kept the colour scheme bright and the costumes brighter," he laughs.
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