The Curious Case of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai
Nah…. Probably the title will give you a wrong idea about this post. But let us clear it up for you!
In December 2008, there came a great movie titled “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Directed by David Fincher and starring the Hollywood’s top gun Brad Pitt, the film was a nice little success. The whole movie revolves around the guy named Benjamin Button, played by Brad Pitt, who actually was born as an old man in the movie and starts getting younger as he grows old. Bizarre? Haan….
The movie actually did pretty good and was even nominated both in Oscars and BAFTA awards this year for best actor, best motion picture, among many more. It managed to get few Oscars for art direction, make up, visual effects etc. but no real biggies. So you can imagine, that it wasn’t the best-est of movies in 2008, but still was pretty damn good. Having watched the movie myself, i do think a Bollywood remake of it will do well in India. And that’s what we are talking here about.
Yes, it is true that a desi remake of ” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is in progress. What excites me more is that Akshay Kumar has been casted for the role of Benjamin Button. And Aishwarya Rai has been casted as the leading actress opposite Akshay in the movie. She will most likely play the role of Daisy (played by Cate Blanchett in english version). Humm.. It would be good to see Akshay and Aishwarya together once again after they made a great success in the movie Khakee! I really think they looked sensational in that movie. “Wada Raha” song is still one of my favorites. Anyways, about the film, well it’s being directed by Vipul Shah. Accroding to him “What we are attempting is very ambitious and it hasn’t happened in Indian cinema before. The film is an out-and-out romantic comedy but reversing time is the challenging element. We’re putting in a lot of effort to pull off this one. We have to keep improvising on our content and technical abilities all the time.”
The movie will start with Akshay Kumar as a 62 year old person and end with him being a trendy, fashionable dude who loves to wear bell bottoms and wide belts. So we are probably looking at bit of humor in the movie as well. 
If this movie does half as good as what the original “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” did, then we are here for a great treat. By the way, the movie is to be completed and released around November or December. That’s the same time wherein Shahrukh Khan plans to launch his film “My Name is Khan” and Aamir Khan also plans to launch his “3 Idiots”
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