Big B linked with 18 year old girl
The older man-younger woman / older woman-younger man concept isnâ??t
alien to Hindi films. Years ago, Yash Chopraâ??s production house
attempted DOOSRA AADMI [Raakhee, Rishi Kapoor]. Then, of course, there
was LAMHE [Anil Kapoor, Sridevi]. A spate of films in the intervening
period tackled similar themes, notable among them being LEELA [Dimple
Kapadia, Amol Mhatre], TUM? [Manisha Koirala, Karan Nath], EK CHHOTI SI
LOVE STORY [Manisha Koirala, Aditya Seal], JOGGERS PARK [Victor
Banerjee, Perizaad Zorabian] and DIL CHAHTA HAI [Dimple Kapadia,
Akshaye Khanna].
Amitabh Bachchan is all set to play the role of an old married man who
falls in love with a 18-year-old girl. To be directed by Ram Gopal
Varma, Nishabd, will be released in September this year. Ram Gopal
Varma has completed the shooting of the film in 20 days. Although
rumours have been doing the rounds that Nishabd is yet another
adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Ram Gopal Varma has denied
this very firmly. He insists that Nishabd is an original story
conceived and written by him. He calls its an intense love story
between an older man and a younger girl.
The female lead will be played by newcomer Jiah Khan. Varma has
deliberately cast an unknown face so the situation seems believable.
There are no steamy scenes in the film, he clarified in an interview
with Mid-day. He says, "The thought is erotic and there is a strong
undercurrent of sexuality, but it has not been done at the expense of
putting Mr Bachchan in a demeaning light." The film also stars Revathy,
Rukhsar and Aftab Shivdasani.
Ram Gopal Varma ventures into unchartered
territory with a bold take on human relationships through his latest
directorial exercise, Nishabd. Starring Amitabh Bachchan in a
never-before-seen role of a 60-year-old man who falls in love with an
18-year-old girl (the beautiful Jia Khan making her film debut), the
film is scheduled for a February 2007 release and also stars South
Indiaâ??s leading actress, Revathy. With Sarkar, Varma experimented with
the crime genre with Bachchan as the eponymous character who has his
own set of rights and wrongs, and his own definition of justice; this
time around, Varma raises the acceptability question of a mismatched
relationship of love where age is the barrier. It also experiments with
the taboo around not just the age difference in a society where older
men oft err in matters of the heart with younger women, but pushes the
envelope with the love interest in question here being the
protagonistâ??s daughterâ??s best friend. One waits in anticipation as to
how the deft and skilled director has handled the risqué relationship.
A film to watch out for!
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