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The making of Deewar...
MAKING NEARLY 200 camels gallop along, most of them escaping towards the desert, Amitabh Bachchan jumping from 15 feet, crew members falling unconscious due to a heat stroke at Jaislamer with medical facilities 290 kilometres away, food and water at the mercy of truck drivers, worst sandstorm in 15 years, and getting up at 3 a.m. to cover three hours distance to reach the border to capture the actual site. The list is endless. This and more is what took 37-year-old Milan Luthria to construct his Rs.20-crore venture Deewar; Let's Bring our Heroes Home his third film, releasing across Delhi this Friday.
Milan erected sets worth Rs.1.5 crore at Film City studios to shoot most part of this film and a few parts were shot at "narrow lanes of Khetwari, an old Portuguese colony in Mumbai never shot earlier."
Milan is all too enthusiastic about the response of film. He is even comparing it with Sholay and Lagaan. "The manager of Metro, the largest theatre in Mumbai warned me recently that I should not expect much in advance because now people first read the reviews and then go to watch a film. But to my surprise I have got to know that most cinema halls are booked for many weeks in advance. I was also asked why the music of the film is not a hit yet, I told them, the music of many films become a hit after they do well in theatres, don't we have films like Lagaan and Ghadar for examples?", says Milan who made this film "only for Mr. Bachchan", rest play second fiddle to him.
"Bachchan has a major fan following. If they find him in small role, they feel cheated. I didn't want to do that. Whenever I used to see him as a kid doing action roles, I always used to think, why not another Sholay to revive the magic of an action man? So I made this film."
RANA SIDDIQUI
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