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Star-Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin, Prachi Desai
Director: Rohit Shetty
Producers: Dhilin Mehta, Ajay Devgn
Music Directors: Ajay-Atul
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: This Week
This film is one that seems to e truly promising. Directed by Rohit Shetty, ‘Bol Bachchan’ boasts of a cast that is more than impressive. The film stars the top names in Bollywood like Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Asin Thottumkal, Prachi Desai and Abhishek Bachchan. The film was originally supposed to release on Diwali, in 2011 itself. But that is the same day that Shah Rukh Khan had chosen for the release of his film ‘Ra One’. The moment Rohit Shetty found out about this co-incidence, he shifted the date t 2012. Obviously the director did not want to compete with the man who is going to work with him on his next project, Angoor.
The story of the film has been developed by Farhan Yunus and Sajawal Sajid. The dialogues have also been taken care of by Sajid himself. Dudley is the DOP for this film, while Jai Singh Nijjar is responsible for the direction of action sequences. Steven H. Bernard is in charge of editing and Narendra Rahurikar is the art director for ‘Bol Bachchan’.
The rumours have been flying round that this film is a remake of or even copy of the ‘Golmaal’. For all the fans who were confused by this piece of information, let me tell you that the film was actually declared to be a tribute to the ‘Golmaal’ that was released in 1979. The story goes that Ajay was offered the film ‘Golmaal 4’ originally by the director but he turned it down. The reason he cited was that a ‘Golmaal’ sequel every year might not be a good idea. The actor felt that at least a 2 year gap is essential between the last film and the next. Since the ‘Golmaal’ series just cannot happen without Devgn. Shetty decided to take his advice. Instead, he came up with the idea of ‘Bol Bachchan’.
This film plays with the unique idea of casting the above mentioned actors in the roles that were originally there in the ‘Golmaal’ directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Abhishek Bachchan has been chosen to play Ram Prasad which was originally done by Amol Palekar. Ajay Devgn will be seen in the character of Bhawani Shankar, originally played by Utpal Dutt. Asin has been chosen to play the lead female role. From what we have heard, this was first offered to Genelia D’Souza. But for unknown reasons, the bubbly actress had walked out o the film.
However we have to admit, that when it comes to getting a role, Krushna Abhishek of ‘Jubilee Comedy Circus’ really showed us how to do it in style. The participant has d complained that the director has not yet offered him a role in one of his films, inspire of promising to do so earlier. But, the performance that he delivered simply bowled the director over. He was so happy with Krushna that he actually offered him a part in ‘Bol Bachchan’. Archana Puran Singh and Abhishek Avasthi were also offered roles in the same film.
The shooting commenced on 24th of August, 2011. The locations where it was shot include the beautiful city of Jaipur, Jaigarh, Chomu Palace, Samode Palace, City Palace, Nahargarh etc.
From whatever we have heard and seen, ‘Bol Bachchan’ seems to be a film that is worth looking out for in 2012. Let’s see how much of the interest it manages to hold and how much it generates when it hits the theatres.
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