Telugu superstar Ramcharan Teja arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday to fulfill the forged and crew of the Hindi-Telugu bi-lingual Zanjeer which kickstarts next month. And the very first thing that director Apoorva Lakhia did was to take Teja for a cop-cut hairstyling.
Says a source with regards to the film. “Amitji within the original Zanjeer kept long hair covering his ears. It became the craze of the nation. But our cop Vijay will dress and sport a hairstyle like a cop. So we took Teja for a crew-cut. ”
Teja, we hear, could be spending time with real cops in Mumbai before playing Inspector Vijay.
Though Teja was keen to satisfy his immediate co-star Priyanka Chopra specially since she can be speaking all her Telugu lines herself, Teja was in Mumbai to devise his action sequences with Arjun Rampal.
The two actors, as all of us know, play the jobs done by Amitabh Bachchan and Pran within the original Zanjeer. The 2 actors within the old Zanjeer have an especially crucial fight sequence within the film .
The new Zanjeer would take that fight sequence to new heights.
Says a source with regards to the project, “The combat scene between Amitji and Pran Saab in Zanjeer was one of the most film’s highlights. Teja and Arjun Rampal can be re-designing all the sequence. For one they'd both be shirtless.
It can be a bare-chested fist-to-fist pulse-pounding bloodied and gory sequence of roughly 7 minutes in duration, similar to Salman Khan and Sonu Sood’s climactic combat In Dabangg but way more graphic gory and bloodied. ”
Interestingly Teja who has a predominantly action image in his home state Andhra Pradesh had flown all the way down to Mumbai to talk about and determine the fight sequences.
Confirms producer Amit Mehra, “Yes, Teja is here. And we’re planning the action sequences. Javed and Eijaaz who did the raw guttural fight sequences in Shootout At Lokhandwala, The Dirty Picture , Ram Gopal Varma’s forthcoming Department could be directing the action sequences in Zanjeer. ”
Adds Ramcharan Teja, “Yes, I met Priyanka Chopra. She is a pleasant warm and fun person. And yes, I got my hairstyling done today. It’s looking …different!My director Apoorva Lakhia’s enthusiasm level is actually high. And that’s a high quality I LIKE. ”
