Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has revealed that he wanted his upcoming production “Blood Money” to be titled “Kalyug 2″ but couldn’t accomplish that as a result of stiff opposition from his associates.
“I desired to call this film ‘Kalyug 2′ nevertheless it was Kunal Khemu and Vishal Mahadkar who opposed me hammer-and-tongs saying we won’t have you ever do that to our product. You could have ‘Raaz 3′, ‘Jism 3′ , ‘Murder 3′, ‘Ashiqui 2′, so we wish an original title for this,” the 63-year-old said here in an interview.
“The film remotely resembles the structure of ‘Kalyug’, which had a person lock horns with the porn industry and this has a tender man locking horns with the diamond mafia,” he added.
“Blood Money” talks a few small-town boy who enters the diamond export business and is slowly sucked into the underworld. The film also stars Amrita Puri of “Aisha” fame.
Bhatt also revealed the rationale behind shooting the movie Cape Town when originally they desired to can it in Antwerp, Belgium.
“This picture was going to be shot in Antwerp in Belgium. But people there of Indian origin who, I think, hailed from Gujarat, took exception to this actual story because they thought they'd be shown in bad light. They thought the villain is loosely in keeping with Bharat Shah, which isn't true. They, in fact, ganged up against us and stopped us from shooting there. That’s why we needed to shoot in Cape Town,” said Bhatt. – IANS
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