The much talked-about Vidya Balan-Emraan Hashmi comedy was preponed by a month. The shooting which was purported to start in September now starts initially of August, and with superb reason.
The director desires to capture his Dirty Picture jodi within the rains.
Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan are prepared to recreate thae long-forgotten feeling of romancing Mumbai within the monsoon in Rajkumar Gupta’s Ghanchakkar.
And to think that the director’s want to drench his star pair within the monoon rains almost didn’t happen.
Emraan had vetoed director Rajkumar Gupta’s original August shooting for Ghanchakkar as a result of time constraints, thereby ostensibly killing the proposed monsoonal romance with Vidya.
However an excessively lucky circumstance overrode Emraan’s schedule.
Over to the director Rajkumar Gupta, “I had originally planned an August schedule. And Vidya who's nowadays doing no other film was completely one with my film’s schedule.
But Emraan was busy promoting Raaz 3 in August because the film was alleged to release on the end of August. But now I FEEL Raaz 3 have been pushed forward, so I got the window to shoot the scenes that I NEEDED. I ASSUME I'M just lucky. ”
The idea is to shoot Vidya and Emraan at the rain-soaked streets of Mumbai with secret cameras.
That’s how Gupta had shot Rajeev Khandelwal in Aamir. But to shoot two popular superstars like Vidya and Emraan with hidden cameras requires herculian amounts of courage.
Laughs Gupta, “I agree. But both are used to shooting within the crowded outdoors. If Vidya could brave the Kolkata crowds in Kahaani and the Delhi junta in my film No person Killed Jessica then Mumbai can be a cakewalk when compared. The key is, God was generous. Way to Emraan’s reshuffled appointment diary I'M ABLE TO shoot as and after I had originally planned.
Two male actors from theatre are being finalized.
Informs Gupta, “We are taking a look at new faces from theatre and from other sources. We’ve auditioned dozens. With Vidya and Emraan within the cast I WOULD LIKE untried talent to balance off their huge stardom. Besides Emraan and Vidya there are two major characters, both male, plus dozens of supporting parts. ”
Gupta hopes to wrap up all of the shooting by December. The film releases within the first quarter. “We haven’t got a release date as yet. But I HOPE it might be the 8th of any month within the first quarter of 2013. You see, my first film Aamir released at the 6th and my second film No person Killed Jessica released at the 7th. ”
And would there be a profusion of romantic songs in Amit Trivedi’s soundtrack?
“Wait and see, what Vidya and Emraan do in Ghanchakkar could be very different from what they did within the Dirty Picture. ”
