With the intense dialogue writer Milap Zaveri just being precipitated board for Anil Kapoor's Indian adaptation of the series 24, the image is now complete.
Earlier, Anil who has vowed to make the desi avatar of 24 at the same scale as its American counterpart had zeroed in on Abhinay Deo to direct all of the episodes of the series. Rensil D'Silva along side Priya Pinto and Bhavani Iyer were roped in to do the screenplay.
"But the trickiest creative component within the writing and directing strategy of 24 was the dialogues. Anil needed someone who would transpose the hard hitting lines from the yank series into Hindi without forfeiting the unique flavour but collectively giving them a desi tadka of twist," says our source.
Milap fell into Anil's lap while he was mouthing the writer's lines for Sanjay Gupta's Shootout At Wadala. Says the source, "EACH TIME Anil said his lines in SAW he stopped to admire them. He finally decided to get Milap for 24."
When contacted Milap said, "Yes, I'M the most recent recruit on board for 24. The item is, Anil knows my aptitude. I BELIEVE he liked my dialogues on Shootout At Wadala. Once I was asked to do the Hindi dialogues of 24, it was a challenge that needed my full attention. I've cleared all my pending assignments to plunge into 24."
Milap may be writing the dialogues for Rensil d'Silva's next directorial venture for Karan Johar's Dharma Productions featuring Sanjay Dutt and Emraan Hashmi. "SO THAT YOU see, I HAVE BEEN working with Rensil from beforehand. We've a mutual comfort level from the time we got to work at the Dharma film that Rensil is directing. I've always admired Rensil's work. So working with him is a joy," exults Milap.
So how Indianized would the unique dialogues from 24 be in Milap's hands? Says Milap, "IT MIGHT BE considerably Indianized. What worked for the yankee and global audience wouldn't be quite the object for the Indian audience. There'll be lot of claptrap and jingoism. I WILL assure you Anil Kapoor will sound very different from Keifer Sutherland."
Let's just say...Jhakaas to that!
