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Line, err, life out of control!
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Vashu Bhagnani's much-awaited "Out of Control" has hit the silver screens across Delhi. RANA SIDDIQUI finds out how he got Brande Roderick, the "Baywatch" girl, to act in this film.
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IT TOOK Vashu Bhagnani two-and-a-half months to get Brande Roderick of "Baywatch" fame work in his film "Out of Control" released at cinema halls across Delhi this past week, on whom he is heavily dependent for the success of the film. "Her manager troubled me for full-two-and-half-months. Bade chakkar kataye usne. He asked me give him my resume, shot hundred questions about my profile, what kind of films do I make, in what budget and what not." He enquired about Vashu from all sources that took a long time and finally Brande was with Vashu to appear for three-screen tests. "I screen tested at least 12 girls before I zeroed in on Brandy. I finalised her after the climax shot that she gave was mind-blowing," chuckles Vashu for whom Brandy "though a little expensive but was better choice than Pamela Anderson" whom he considered when Brandy was almost beyond his reach.
"He read the script to me, told me what I need to do in the film. I found it challenging and lapped it up," says Brande, sitting pretty at Sahara Studio in Noida. She is playing a singer in the film who falls in love with an "innocent-looking Indian boy" and marries him. She is also seen lip-synching two Hindi songs in the film. "It was very difficult. I wrote it in English, crammed it and sang," she recalls.
Hrishitaa Bhatt, the other heroine in the film is all too happy and enthusiastic for this film. "When I saw myself in the mirror in this costume of a Punjabi girl, I could not believe, I was looking like a typical Punjab di kudi," she chuckles. Actually I am biwi no. two in the film who gets married to Ritesh when he comes back home in Punjab." She admits though feebly, "the role has little for me to do but it has many shades of emotions that would further establish me a performing actress." But perform she could not at a place in Switzerland where a part of the shooting of the films was done. "It was very cold in Switzerland. I was asked to emote but I wasn't able to, for emotions were not resting on my face because of the chill," she laughs.
For Ritesh Deshmukh, it is another "let's try this role" type of film. "Why not?" he asks. "You can't grow great overnight."
Vashu had no intentions to take big cast in the film. "I am a restless soul. Can't sit at home doing nothing, so I made this film. Moreover, if you take a big cast, the chances are that you will have to wait for long time. By then, the very enthusiasm of making that film is gone," he says. He completed this film in "flat 58 days" for he had the script ready with him. And "banks are there to fund any film. The problem with me is that I can't make small budget film. Mujhse banti hi nahin. This film too has budget of up to 12 crore. Now a days no film does a bad business," he tries to drive home his point.
The film is also about is a case of exchange of brides and grooms between two Punjabi, close-knit families. Because of two wives, Ritesh's life goes out of control. But cautions Vashu, "There is no moral lesson in the film. It is just about fun. A typical Punjabi film for the younger generation."
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