Anurag Kashyap and Danny Boyle’s next film, Bombay Velvet, which stars Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan in the third and first leads respectively, will have John Abraham playing the second lead. John will be playing a real-life hero of the masses in the film and is now working on changing his contemporary mannerisms for the film is set in the 1960s.
Even though the film didn’t do well, they promised to work together on another film. That’s when John was chosen for Bombay Velvet. Some people told John that Aamir had replaced him but John knew the truth. He was the only actor who took Anurag seriously when Anurag was still struggling. So Anurag would never drop him. Anurag has even got some of the writers who criticized him for No Smoking to join the Bombay Velvet team. John has also reduced his fee for the role and Anurag is known to not charge any money until the film does well. Looks like this will be one interesting film!
If the latest news is to be believed, Oscar winning director Danny Boyle is very keen to work with Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. Danny had expressed his desire to work with Aamir during the premiere of Slumdog Millionaire in India. He is said to have approached him again recently. Danny Boyle came back to India a few days ago to rescue the child actors of Slumdog Millionaire Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail and Rubina Ali after their houses in the slum were destroyed by the authorities in Mumbai.
As fate has it, Aamir Khan, who has been in the US with his kids on a vacation, flew back to Mumbai for a short stay.It is said that Danny wasted no time in seizing the opportunity.The news is doing the rounds that Danny called on Aamir to discuss a new project on May 26, before hosting a party for the select members of team Slumdog Millionaire.
The outcome of the meeting is not yet known but the fans of the director and the actor are already ecstatic, hoping that they would come together. Of course Danny and Aamir would make a deadly combination! No doubt about it!
Slumdog Millionaire’ director Danny Boyle, who rushed to India Wednesday to help the film’s child stars, was stunned when a child’s father accused him of ignoring them.
Some of the children have become homeless after civic authorities razed their shanties. Boyle had come down to offer them help.
However, Rafiq Qureshi, father of Rubina Ali, 9, left their meeting in anger accusing the filmmaker of neglecting them after the film’s global success.
‘A house is being provided for the kids…we have been listening this for the last five months…I don’t see any house coming our way. The shanty that we were living in has already been razed…where are we getting a house from?
‘If they are providing us a house, when are they going to do it? Our kids are literally living on the road now,’ an exasperated Qureshi told a news channel later.
‘Slumdog’ producer Christian Colson also participated in the meeting held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences on the outskirts of the city.
‘We are looking for a legal accommodation that should be held by the trust (Jai Ho) to ensure the safety of these kids and it would be properly monitored as well,’
a calm Boyle told the reporters.
The kids including Azharuddin Ismail M. Shaikh, 10, the main child star of the movie, apart from Rubina, were both thrown on the streets after Mumbai civic authorities demolished their shanties May 14, terming the slum unauthorised.
The producers of the multiple Oscar-award wining underdog drama had earlier announced a setting up Jai Ho Trust to look after the two child stars and ensure that they receive quality education and a house to live in.
