Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Hyderabad
A fight on our hands!
|
Vikram Chopra says, "Fight Club" is not just about baseball bats
|
A FEW days ago when baseball bats landed in media houses as part of promotion of Fight Club, scribes appreciated the novelty but foresaw a violent film in the offing.
Director Vikram Chopra, however, says it was just a souvenir.
"Fight Club is an action comedy. It doesn't have actors bashing people with baseball bats every other moment. People related it to Hollywood's Fight Club when there is no relation between the two."
Vikram, cousin of Vidhu Vinod Chopra has scripted the film with Sohail Khan whom he assisted in Maine Dil Tujhko Diya.
"We have been close pals for the last 15 years but believe me we have never been part of any fight club."
Taking the male bonding streak forward the film is about two clubs. Suniel Shetty, Yash Tonk, Rahul Dev and Ashmit Patel represent one club while the other one has Sohail Khan, Dino Morea, Zayed Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Ashish Choudhary. "More than male bonding, the film is about friendship and moments. I won't reveal much but it's about two clubs. One is on the positive side and the other has negative shades.
One club is in based in Mumbai and the other in Delhi. That's why we have shot one part in Mumbai and these days we are shooting in Delhi."
The film has Dia Mirza and Amrita Arora to add to the glamour quotient. Music is by Pritam, still basking in Dhoom glory. Vikram Dhama who impressed by his efforts in Yuva has done the action sequences. One of the sequences features noted Australian fight master Chris Andrewen.
The success of such concepts has generally been attributed to metro audience but Vikram says the success of Dil Chahta Hai and Dhoom proves otherwise.
"I accept Sohail and I were moved by Dil Chahta Hai, however, mainly in terms of its commercial success."
Style with values
Vikram says there is a young audience in different parts of the country who could appreciate the humane side of life, where the hero can fumble, could be clumsy and stylish at different times.
"If Fight Club has style and glamour there is an underlying imprint of Indian values and emotions as well."
Vikram believes with audience accepting different concepts, the new generation film makers have become emboldened to try out new scripts.
"A few years ago nobody could have imagined a film could be centred around nine male actors or nine female actors for that matter.
That all those song and dance routines are biting dust at box office prove this."
ANUJ KUMAR
Printer friendly
page
Send this article to Friends by
E-Mail
Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Hyderabad
|
