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'Mission is very different from my previous movies. I realized Istanbul's old-World charm characterized by cobbled streets, cafes and medieval architecture would be an ideal backdrop for the film, which is full of intrigue,' quips Approva Lakhia, who made five trips to the city to zero in on the locations for his film MISSION ISTANBUL. The music of the film is outstanding and perfectly matches the film's plot. It has been scored by Bollywood's renowned music Directors, Anu Malik, Shamir Tandon, Chirantan Bhatt and Mika. The overwhelming lyrics have been penned by India's ace lyricist Sameer. The action Director for Mission Istaanbul are Javed and Ejaz Shaikh and the Dialogues are written by Raj Vasant. The film is an outrageous approach toward the new era action films in India and probably might turn out to be the Indian MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. BALAJI MOTION PICTURES LTD march towards presenting a top of the line entertainment software to Indian feature film audiences after Balaji Telefilms Limited, whose serials rank among India's most watched television programming. With MISSION ISTAANBUL awaiting release and big films like Bhool Bhulayian, Sarkar Raj already making success stories at the box offices, and C Kkompany and EMI just awaiting release, this group will also actively produce and distribute both Indian and Foreign motion pictures all over the world.
'Zayed taking on Nikiten Dheer is highlight of MISSION ISTANBUL'
For the climactic battle in Apoorva Lakhia's Mission Istaanbul, the reed-thin Zayed Khan put on 11 kg and weighed 75 kg for the first time in his life. All because he had to take on the movie's bad man Nikitin Dheer, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 86 kg. This scene is supposed to be the climax sequence. Zayed was excited when he was told about the climactic situation and requirement of this role. 'I suddenly had to weigh beyond what I ever usually did. I had to match Nikitin Dheer because there was a lot at stake for me. 'Mission Istanbul' sapped me. This project meant a lot to me,' Zayed said. Mission Istaanbul targets the youth audiences across the globe and is all set to invade the Indian Box Office from 25th July, 2008. The film casts actors Suniel Shetty, Viveik Oberoi, Zayed Khan, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Shriya Saran, Nikitin Dheer and debutante Shweta Bharadwaj. Mission Istaanbul is an action flick directed by one of the most innovative action directors, Apoorva Lakhia and produced by a joint venture of Balaji Motion Pictures Ltd and Suniel Shetty's Popcorn Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd. The pace of the film is relentless and the actions are mind boggling. The film moves in a rock solid direction and has a strong theme. The Mission Istaanbul script saw 22 drafts before it was finalized. All the star-cast in the film has been made to perform out of ordinary stunts to give it a brush of reality. Zayed and Viveik were made to jump from a four storey building. Buildings and helicopters were blown up, cars were smashed and many such things were done to make it a bigger project in the leagues of action flicks. The music of the film is outstanding and perfectly matches the film's plot. Turkish Singer Ege sung an awesome romantic song 'Jo Gumshuda' in the movie. It has been scored by Bollywood's renowned music Directors, Anu Malik, Shamir Tandon, Chirantan Bhatt and Mika. The overwhelming lyrics have been penned by India's ace lyricist Sameer. The action Director for Mission Istaanbul are Javed and Ejaz Shaikh and the Dialogues are written by Raj Vasant. The film is an outrageous approach toward the new era action films in India and probably might turn out to be the Indian MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. BALAJI MOTION PICTURES LTD march towards presenting a top of the line entertainment software to Indian feature film audiences after Balaji Telefilms Limited, whose serials rank among India's most watched television programming. With MISSION ISTAANBUL awaiting release and big films like Bhool Bhulayia, Sarkar Raj already making success stories at the box offices, and C Kkompany and EMI just awaiting release, this group will also actively produce and distribute both Indian and Foreign motion pictures all over the world.
Music of 'Mission Istaanbul' flagged off at IIFA 2008
The IIFA 2008 was kicked off yesterday at Bangkok in the presence of the Bachchan family, other top Bollywood actors and technicians and invitees from the government of Thailand and other celebrities from the host country. 'Mission Istaanbul' which is a joint production of Savile Row Co, Balaji Motion Pictures and Popcorn Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd. is one of the movies to be premiered at the IIFA world Premiers which is one of the attractions in the total package of this years IIFA. For this multi starrer film Vivek Oberoi has gone for an image make over adopting long hair. The other actors in the film directed by Apoorva Lakhia are Zayed Khan, Shriya Saran, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Nikitin Dheer, Suniel Shetty and a new actress Shwetta Bharadwaj. The music album of 'Mission Istaanbul' containing six songs for which T-Series holds the rights was released at the IIFA Weekend 2008 by the veteran hero of Bollywood Jeetendra who is also known as the jumping jack. Four talented music directors which include a debutante have composed the music of the new film. The experienced music maker Annu Malik, Shameer Tandon, singer and composer Mika and the new kid on the block Chirantan Bhatt used their skills to compose the songs. 'Mission Istaanbul' also marks the collaboration of Annu Malik and the famous Turkish singer Ege for the romantic song "Jo Gumshuda". The singer from Turkey has made this song very unique and touching with his soulful sound. When Annu Malik who is known for his great soothing romantic tracks used the incredible talent of Ege, the result is a great song with an entirely new flavour that incorporates the elements of the Indian songs and the poignant singing style of the vocalist from Turkey. Balaji Motion Pictures and PoPCorn Motion Pictures bought the rights of a very famous international song titled "World Hold On", a music track that has the credit of being remixed in thirty six different versions till now to use it in 'Mission Istaanbul'. Shameer Tandon used the original song to create a new version mixing Indian lyrics with Turkish sounds and coming out with a fantastic new song which still keeps the soul of the original track intact. The song composed by singer/composer Mika is a typical Bollywood style song. The song featured on Vivek Oberoi's character in the film just like the song "Aye Ganpat" that revolved around the character played by Vivek in 'Shootout at Lokandwala stays true to the music style of Hindi Cinemas. The song is expected to turn out to be a hot choice of the youngsters. The new music director Chirantan Bhatt tries to prove his mettle with the title track which is very vibrant and gels with the true attitude of 'Mission Istaanbul'. Chirantan has also worked on producing a groovy item song titled as "Nobody Like You". 'Shootout At Lokandwala' proved to be blockbuster and helped Vivek Oberoi to end his steak of box office duds at a time when he was desperately looking out for a super hit. He certainly likes to see 'Mission Istaanbul' to rise more higher. The actor who made a dashing entry into Bollywood with the super hit 'Company' directed by Ram Gopal Varma will be performing to the tune of the song "Apun Ka Saath" from the new film at the awards function on June 8 at IIFA Awards 2008. Vivek's dreams of a hugely successful movie is all said to get a good thrust with the great music of 'Mission Istaanbul'
Zayed Khan beefs up for 'Mission Istaanbul'
There is a big possibility that the forthcoming film 'Mission Istaanbul' directed by Apporva Lakhia can benefit Zayed Khan in the way the movie 'Sangrash' came as a turning point in Akshay Kumar's acting career. In most films we have seen this tall and lanky actor doing roles that have different shades of the life of the fun loving, easy going, new generation youth. The visuals of his character in the forthcoming high octane action packed movie shot in Turkey give us a feeling that his character is of a fully matured man with a no nonsense attitude. The dark, tough and manly costumes coupled with the glasses and trimmed hair gives a look that has never been experimented on Zayed before. The young actor also had to do something that he has never done before as part of the preparations for the climax scene of 'Mission Istaanbul'. The actor had to put in additional mass of 11 kg to increase his body weight to 75 kg so that he could match up in physical terms in the climax with the baddie of the film Nikitin Dheer, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 86 kg during the encounter. Zayed tells that he has a lot at stake in this new project and it has taught him several new things. So he is eagerly awaiting the release and the response to his image change as well as one of the most exiting and well made roles in his career.
Mission Accomplished for Subhash Ghai
Director and Producer Subhash Ghai can be a relieved man now as the wheels of his film institute Whistling Woods have started running on smooth roads. The first batch of the institute who will pass out on July 2008 are quite a lucky group as they got the admission without any troubles and doubts when Whistling Woods was opened on July 18 2006 and also because there are around 20 media companies waiting for campus recruitment. The new aspiring actors, producers, directors, other technicians and animators who wish be the next batch to get a two year intense hands on training programe with world media and cinema exposure will have to be quite lucky if they want to be a part of Subash Ghai's pet project as the academy will need to drop 60% of the applications due to a shortage of seats. Senior Vice President ' Business Development of Whistling Woods Chaitanya Chinchlekar says that the thousands of hits the institute's website gets every week is an indicator of the coming generation's realization of the importance of professional training to get a foothold in an industry which pays the maximum. Subhash Ghai admits that he is amazed at the fast growth in talent and maturity as professionals in most students in senior batches of all the disciplines. The show man of Bollywood also expresses his gratitude to the team of professors and stalwarts of the film Industry who have shared their knowledge and experience. The setting up of the Institute took a lot of time of the veteran director during which he did not involve himself in directing at all. Now the purpose of setting up of a world class institute to churn out high quality film personalities have been successful in such a short time itself. The director has proved to be a step ahead than his colleagues by contributing back to not only the Hindi film Industry that gave him the title show man but also to the other regional industries in the form of a well prepared and trained youngsters raring to go and prove their worth.
Ali Fazal on mission to mould his voice
Ali Fazal, who will be exploring the negative zone on camera with “Rourav”, will be learning ways to modulate his voice for the role. The actor says voice helps mould visuals in a better way. "It's not just about body transformations, voice plays a major part in shaping the visuals. This particular role is out of my comfort zone, so it requires that much more attention,” Ali said in a statement. The actor will be training to work on his voice texture. "He will be going for a specialised training to get the accent and tonality,” said a source, adding that Ali “has sourced some videos and voice programmes from the web which he also used during his 'Furious 7' time”. Ali is putting in all the extra effort for "Rourav", Raja Chowdary's directorial debut which is set against the background of Rajasthan. It is believed that Ali's role will be very rustic and so the actor is out on a mission to get the suitable pitch and tone. The “Bobby Jasoos” actor also noted that modulating voice is not a cakewalk. “Modulating voice is not hard, keeping it consistent and truthful is... And that’s what we are working on. It's more for us than to dazzle the audiences with some unique unheard voice,” he said. The film is said to be a spaghetti Western entertainer made in India. It is a genre of films popularised by Italian filmmakers between 1960 and 1980, and consists of action involving trickery and lot of stylish stunts.