By the riverbank
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“Phaans: Ek Jasoos ki Kahani” was shot on the banks of Yamuna recently.
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Delhi-bound The crew of “Phaans: Ek Jasoos Ki Kahani”.
The political capital of the country may soon give Mumbai, the tinsel town, a run for its money. After the likes of Kunal Kohli had brought out the historicity of the city in “Fanaa” and Subhash Ghai have taken us to the by-lanes of Old D
elhi in the recent “Black & White”, more and more filmmakers are heading to the Capital for location shooting of their films. While the high profile Rakesh Omprakash Mehra whose previous film, “Rang De Basanti” was shot in Delhi too, has set his “Delhi 6”,in the Capital, Dibakar Banerjee who recently won the National Award for “Khosla Ka Ghosla”, had a 20 day shoot for his next film here too.
Joining the ranks is director Avinash Chitransh, who recently shot a good part of his debut film “Phaans: Ek Jasoos Ki Kahani” at various places across the city. While the noisy Azad Market doubled up for Lahore, the banks of river Yamuna passed off as Wagah border.
Vidya Sinha, the popular actress of the 1970s who was last seen more than a half decade ago, is making a comeback with this venture. Veteran actor Raza Murad will also be seen in the film which has a pair of newcomers playing the lead roles. While the hero Karan Malhotra will soon be seen in forthcoming film “Faraar” alongwith Akbar Khan and Shahbaz Khan, the heroine Shiva Munjal has done a number of commercials and a few South Indian films before bagging this spy thriller. “Phaans” is a low budget film which is likely to be completed shortly. Half of the film has already been shot in Mumbai. The music of the film is composed by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen. Not discouraged by the lack of local enthusiasm, producer Jawahar Lal Jairat claims, “the film will be one of its kind”.
S.M. AAMIR
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