I didn't follow any of the casting shenanigan stories when it came to Heroine, and I'm still not that psyched about the film--Aishwarya's a mediocre actress on all but her very best days and after having seen Page 3 and the hot mess that was Fashion I'm not really digging the idea of sitting through yet another Madhur Bhandarkar "deep dark industry expose" film (unless there's a drinking game involved). I'll do it though, because I love Arjun Rampal and Arunoday Singh, and because I'm more than mildly curious how they're going to deal with Aishwarya's pregnancy.From the looks of this just-released shot of Aishwarya in costume it looks like they're dealing with it by wrapping her in a silver sack.
Another film I haven't been following all that much (a Bollywood blogger who doesn't really follow films...novel concept) is Singularity. There was a time when I considered myself a Josh Hartnett connoisseur, but 1999 is in the past now and the only reason I know about this film at all is because of my love love love for Abhay Deol. I have to say it just sounds...wrong...to put Abhay in a period film (well, a period part of a film at any rate). I'm sure he can pull it off but he's a modern actor with a modern look and I'm not sure how I feel about this look on him...
Yeah, that's Abhay Deol, with a beard and long hair. I...don't know what to say.
The rest of Singularity's B'Town cast is ok. Bipasha Basu stars as Josh's love interest (or the love interest of the dude who looks like Josh Hartnett who Josh Hartnett dreams about while he's a vegetable in a hospital) and I'm guessing the casting session went something like this:
Producer 1: Find me a hot Indian actress.
Producer 2: Well there's this actress named Konkona...I hear she's pretty badass.
Producer 1: Can she act? She can? Ok, she's probably too expensive for us then. How about this Bipasha person, who can't act but has a nice rack?
Producer 2: Done and done.
Atul Kulkarni's in the cast as well which is...awesome? I think that's the right word. I've always had this little crush on him...I even halfheartedly started sketching a little script where he and Vijay Raaz play small-town buddy cops who have a "you distract this guy while I go flirt with his wife" routine.
Um. Ahem. Yes.
