Telugu superstar Ramcharan Teja arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday to satisfy the solid and crew of the Hindi-Telugu bi-lingual Zanjeer which kick starts next month. And the very first thing that director Apoorva Lakhia did was to take Teja for a cop-cut hairstyling.
Says a source with regards to the film. "Amitji within the original Zanjeer kept long hair covering his ears. It became the fashion of the nation. But our cop Vijay will dress and sport a hairstyle like a cop. So we took Teja for a crew-cut."
Teja, we hear, could be spending time with real cops in Mumbai before playing Inspector Vijay. Though Teja was keen to satisfy his immediate co-star Priyanka Chopra, especially since she could be speaking all her Telugu lines herself, Teja was in Mumbai to plot his action sequences with Arjun Rampal.
The two actors, as all of us know, play the jobs done by Amitabh Bachchan and Pran within the original Zanjeer. Within the old Zanjeer, that they had a particularly crucial fight sequence within the film. The brand new Zanjeer would take that fight sequence to new heights.
Says a source with regards to the project, "The combat scene between Amitji and Pran Saab in Zanjeer was one of the crucial film's highlights. Teja and Arjun Rampal could be re-designing all the sequence. For one, they might both be shirtless. It might be a bare-chested fist-to-fist pulse-pounding bloodied and gory sequence of roughly 7 minutes in duration, comparable to Salman Khan and Sonu Sood's climactic combat in Dabangg, but way more graphic gory and bloodied."
Interestingly, Teja who has a predominantly action image in his home state Andhra Pradesh, had flown all the way down to Mumbai to talk about and figure out the fight sequences.
Confirms producer Amit Mehra, "Yes, Teja is here. And we're planning the action sequences. Javed and Eijaaz who did the raw guttural fight sequences in Shootout At Lokhandwala, The Dirty Picture, Ram Gopal Varma's forthcoming Department could be directing the action sequences in Zanjeer."
Adds Ramcharan Teja, "Yes, I met Priyanka Chopra. She is a pleasing warm and fun person. And yes, I got my hairstyling done today. It's looking ...different! My director Apoorva Lakhia's enthusiasm level is actually high. And that's the reason a high quality I ACTUALLY like."
