Showing posts with label Saturday Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturday Saturday. Show all posts
I wanted to give Saturday Saturday dark yet lively treatment-Ahmed Khan
9:18 AM
Ankur Pathak (MUMBAI MIRROR; June 25, 2014)
Seven days of rehearsals, three nights of shooting with over 200 dancers and a massive set resembling the Colosseum in Rome; producer Karan Johar arranged all this to ensure that Saturday Saturday from his upcoming film Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania became the party anthem of the season. He also spent over a crore on the number choreographed by Ahmed Khan, making it one of the most expensive songs in Hindi film history.
"Karan and I have been trying to collaborate since Dostana 2 and Wake up Sid but our schedules never synced. Then he called me one day to say that he wanted me to do a song that hits the young crowd. He'd made a very simple movie and wanted to shoot an explosive song with Varun and Alia," says Ahmed.
The song surprisingly is a 2012 hit by Punjabi artistes Indeep Bakshi, and Badshah. "Yes, it is not an original track but director Shashank Khaitan loves the song and when Karan heard it, he too approved," explains the choreographer.
Props including a fake tank and large cages were assembled and Ahmed looked to inspiration from hip-hop artist Bobby Brown's slick videos. "Humpin Around by Bobby Brown was a reference. I wanted to give the song the song that kind of dark yet lively treatment. Th song is big in scale and it reminds me of Dhan Te Nan from Kaminey."
But the painstakingly constructed Colosseum is barely noticeable in the song? "We had to focus on the actors. and the Colosseum was just a backdrop. The props were also simply set-pieces chosen by the art director," explains Ahmed.
The next challenge was to understand the dancing capacities of the lead pair as the choreographer had never worked with the actors in the past. Ahmed rehearsed for three consecutive nights with them and the young duo surprised him.
"The steps were in sync with the movements of the party crowd," explains the choreographer who has done films like Rangeela, Taal, Ghajini and Heropanti.
"I wanted the two to dance like stars but I was apprehensive about Alia's dancing skills. I believed that she'd take a lot of time to learn so I kept moves that were simple and easy to emulate."
His scepticism about Alia was quashed the day she walked into the sets. Within half an hour, she'd transformed into a wild party animal. "So far she's looked like a teeny-bopper. Even in Disco Deewane, she looks retro-cute, so the idea was to sex her up and that;s we did in Saturday, Saturday," he exults.
Varun's moves, he says are a combination of Hrithik Roshan and Govinda. "He is very expressive like Govinda and agile like Hrithik while Alia I have been told resembles a young Kareena Kapoor with her energy and attitude," Ahmed asserts.
Alia Bhatt-Varun Dhawan step into the future in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania?
8:01 AM
Ankur Pathak (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 9, 2014)
The makers of Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania have recreated Rome's famous Colosseum in Mumbai's Film City for a lavish song-and-dance sequence.
Mirror has learnt that the film's lead pair, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan will be seen in futuristic avatars and the styling of the song is being personally supervised by producer Karan Johar.
The song, called Saturday Saturday, will be choreographed by Ahmed Khan and is likely to be shot in the next few days.
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