After tickling audiences’ funny bones for just about seven years, Bollywood’s original Khiladi Akshay Kumar returns to what he's best at – action. He'll be seen packing some hardcore kicks and punches in Prabhu Deva directed “Rowdy Rathore” when it releases Friday.
Made with the cheap of roughly Rs.40 crore, the film is a remake of Telugu film “Vikramarkudu”. It's co-produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala. The film can be released in 2,300 screens in India and around 400 screens overseas.
The film revolves around Shiva (Akshay), who's a small-time conman. He's head-over-heels in love with Priya (Sonakshi Sinha), a sexy girl whom he met at a marriage he wasn’t invited to. The image perfect world of Shiva turns the wrong way up with the entry of six-year-old girl Neha, who believes he's her father.
Shiva also becomes the victim of a sequence of life threatening attacks by a gang of deadly criminals, who appear to know something he doesn’t. Within the quest to avoid wasting his life and love, Shiva stumbles upon a dangerous secret, something which takes him to a small town in Bihar.
That town is ruled by a ruthless MLA and the mafia he controls. The inhabitants of the small town discover a saviour in Shiva.
Akshay is alleged to have learned combat karate for his role within the film. He's seen sporting a rugged look within the film. The movie bosses had launched a web based hunt for Akshay’s search for “Rowdy Rathore”.
The cast and crew of the film had a difficult time shooting in Karnataka’s temple town of Hampi. The shoot was disrupted after activists alleged that the makers didn’t use the minimum choice of local dancers they had promised.
Sonakshi’s red sari act within the song “Chhammak challo chail chabeeli” has compelled people to attract comparisons with Kareena Kapoor’s “Chhammak chhallo” in “RA.One”. However, the actress brushes it off as mere co-incidence and insists the 2 songs shouldn't be compared.
Filmmakers has been arising with innovative ways of selling a movie or launching the music and “Rowdy Rathore” too tried a brand new trick. The film’s music was launched in a chawl in Mumbai.
This might be Sonakshi’s second release after blockbuster “Dabangg”.
After this, Akshay and Sonakshi will appear together in “Joker” and strike a hattrick with “Once Upon A Time Again”.
Two of the film’s songs have a slew of Southern and Hindi film actors creating a special appearance. While “Chinta ta chita” has Tamil star Vijay, Kareena Kapoor, Rajesh Hamal and Prabhu Deva himself, “Aa re pritam pyaare” has Maryam Zakaria, Shakti Mohan, Mumaith Khan and Amit Kumar. – IANS
