Loading ...Filmmaker R Balakrishnan has started his next venture after ‘Cheeni Kum’. This one is titled ‘Pa’ and will have Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan playing father and son. Big B will have no leading lady opposite him and Abhishek will have Vidya Balan playing his love interest. Earlier Aishwarya was considered for the role, but later dropped off.
Balki, as Balakrishnan is popularly called, says he can already visualize Vidya as the love interest of Abhi in ‘Pa’.
The film is a light-hearted comedy about bonding between father and son. The movie will also star Paresh Rawal . Illayaraja , who has already composed music for ‘Cheeni Kum’, will be Pa’s music director.
Vidya has already shared screen space with Amitabh and Abhishek in ‘Guru’ and ‘Eklavya’.
Indian film megastar Amitabh Bachchan has reached out to fans in cyberspace, launching a blog about his life which has triggered a flood of responses from around the world.
In the first on-screen appearance with her husband since getting married, Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan takes the lead as a powerful executive in Sarkar Raj (Absolute Ruler).
The film that will also star her father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan, and her husband, Abhishek Bachchan, will hit the screens on June 6, the film’s director said at a press conference Monday.Sarkar Raj is loosely based on the controversy around an Enron power plant built in India’s western state of Maharashtra a decade ago.Director Ram Gopal Varma however defended the movie as original.It “has no reference point and was a completely original script,” Varma said, according to the Press Trust of India.Yet the promos of Sarkar Raj show a striking similarity between Rai-Bachchan’s role and that of Rebecca Mark, former CEO of Houston-based utilities giant Enron, who pushed the power plant project.Enron was mired in a political storm in the mid-1990s over the building of a 2.9 billion dollar private power plant, India’s largest at the time.Majority share owner Enron closed the plant in 2001 after its lone client, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, fell behind on payments.Enron went bankrupt in December 2001 following an accounting scandal. “I am representing a power company in the film that wants to set up a power project,” Rai-Bachchan told media in a video conference from Miami, where she was celebrating her first wedding anniversary.
There was ‘high drama’ on the sets during the making of Dilli 6 that director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra had not scripted. Lead actor Abhishek Bachchan and director Rakeysh had irrevocable creative differences. Abhishek, who is an otherwise happy-go-lucky actor, dared to give some suggestions while plying his skills. The ‘friendly’ suggestions didn’t go down well with Rakeysh, and soon after, he started cold-shouldering Bachchan Jr. “The rift between Abhishek and Rakeysh Mehra had his share of problems with Abhishek Bachchan on the sets of Dilli 6; Amitabh Bachchan later intervened and played peacemaker. Rakeysh started when Abhishek began to give his inputs on matters of props, dialogues and shots while enacting scenes . Rakeysh, who is known to hold his scripts close to his heart, didn’t quite appreciate the gesture. He would hardly speak to Abhishek once we packed up for the day,” says a unit member on condition of anonymity. Thing worsened when Abhishek had more retakes compared to leading lady Sonam Kapoor, who is just one-film-old. Rakeysh was clearly unhappy and almost stopped communicating with Bachchan Jr. “There was visible tension between the two, but Abhishek was a thorough professional. He never let it show on the sets and worked equally hard on his part,” reveals our source.Another crew member adds, “There are days when actors fail to concentrate and we have to keep retaking. But that’s a part of the job. There are times when the director is unhappy with the way the shot has been taken despite actors giving it their best shot.”It was Abhishek’s daddy Amitabh Bachchan who took control of the situation and played the peacemaker on the sets. “Bachchan Sr has a guest appearance in the film. He sorted out the differences between the two and got them together,” says our source.Abhishek plays an NRI who comes back to India to trace his roots and look after his ailing grandmother. During his stay in the capital, he falls for his doe-eyed neighbour (Sonam), and gradually, gets involved in the Monkeyman hysteria, which had swept Delhi in 2001. We sent text messages to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, CEO of UTV Motion Pictures, who is producing the film, and director Rakeysh. But they remained unavailable for comment.
