Initially, the shooting was speculated to begin in September, and Gupta’s want to drench his star pair within the monoon rains almost didn’t happen as a result of Emraan’s time constraints.
Gupta narrated: “I had originally planned an August schedule. And Vidya, who's nowadays doing no other film, was completely one with my film’s schedule. But Emraan was busy promoting ‘Raaz 3′ in August because the film was purported to release on the end of August.”
“But now I THINK ‘Raaz 3′ was pushed forward, so I got the window to shoot the scenes that I NEEDED. I SUPPOSE I'M just lucky.”
The idea is to shoot Vidya and Emraan at the rain-soaked streets of Mumbai with secret cameras.
That’s how Gupta had shot Rajeev Khandelwal in “Aamir”. But to shoot two popular actors like Vidya and Emraan with hidden cameras requires numerous courage.
“I agree. But both are used to shooting within the crowded outdoors. If Vidya could brave the Kolkata crowds in ‘Kahaani’ and the Delhi crowd in my film ‘No One Killed Jessica’, then Mumbai can be a cakewalk in comparison.”
“The important thing is god have been generous. Way to Emraan’s reshuffled appointment diary, I’m capable of shoot as and once I had originally planned,” he said.
Two male actors from theatre are being finalised for the movie too.
“We are new faces from theatre and from other sources. We’ve auditioned dozens. With Vidya and Emraan within the cast, I WOULD LIKE untried talent to balance off their huge stardom. Besides Emraan and Vidya, there are two major characters, both male, plus dozens of supporting parts.”
Gupta hopes to wrap up all of the shooting by December and release the film within the first quarter of 2013.
“We haven’t got a release date as yet. But I HOPE it might be the 8th of any month within the first quarter of 2013. You see, my first film ‘Aamir’ released at the 6th and my second film ‘No One Killed Jessica’ released at the 7th,” he said.
And should one expect a profusion of romantic songs in Amit Trivedi’s soundtrack?
“Wait and see, what Vidya and Emraan do in ‘Ghanchakkar’ can be very different from what they did in ‘The Dirty Picture’,” he added.
