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As Sacred Evil gets readied for a release, the director duo of Abhiyaan Rajhans and Abhigyan Jha have something special to share with the audience. As per them, 'Sacred Evil' is the first Indian film to delve into the genre of the psychological and the supernatural. Using an international starcast, coupled with the skills of the wonderful French director of photography, Ivan Kozelka, it carries none of the usual baggage of an Anglo-Indian film. It does not depict ethnic cultures or social conditions and, more importantly, does not require an interest in things Indian to be enjoyed to understood. The film tells a universal story, exploring fears and the yearning for redemption. What makes the story unique is that it is based on real-life incidents and yet deals with witchcraft and the supernatural. As directors, they have tried to shoot the film in all the locations where the real events took place including some of the locales from the Calcutta of the 80s.This is what makes everything so 'real' in the film.
'Sacred Evil - A True Story' postponed
In yet another instance of a film being moved to a latter day in nick of time, 'Sacred Evil - A True Story' too has been pushed to June 2. Earlier it was being planned for a release this Friday. When the movie's promotion started, it seemed to have come out of the blue as there was absolutely no buzz during the production and post-production of the film. Also the film was almost ready almost a year back and an English title with prominently foreign starcast [with an exception of Sarika] didn't really make it a conventional Bollywood release. But what made matters interesting for its makers [and the audience] is that the promos managed to create some curiosity that managed to bring in some awareness. With a contemporary Hollywood horror/drama/thriller look brought to Indian scenario, the idea clicked with the 'multiplex audience', which is in fact the target audience of the film. Hence it doesn't sound like a step in the wrong direction to postpone the film by a couple of weeks. This time could be used to the best advantage of the film and who knows we may just have another 'Being Cyrus' in hands that turned out to be surprise average runner for an English language film!
Sarika in Sacred Evil-Gehra Pani
After 'Kal - Yesterday And Tomorrow', Sarika's next release would be Sacred Evil [Gehra Pani - A True Story in Hindi]. 'Sacred Evil' is a supernatural thriller based on a true story from the case files of a real-life Wiccan, Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, who wrote the namesake book. It is a story of three women - a nun, a Wiccan and a girl in search of her mother - who are separated by a 20-year-old secret. The film that has been ready for about an year, has been produced by Percept Picture Company and is a Sahara One Motion Pictures creation. Debutants Abhigyan Jha and Abhiyan Rajhans are the co-directors of the film while Sarika's co-stars are Lynsey Pow and Frederic Andrau.
Vishwajeet scared of cops
Vishwajeet Pradhan who has played the CBI investigator in the film Raqeeb has grown his hair long just to avoid roles of Police inspectors. He agreed for this role as could not say no to produce Raj Kanwar, with whom he has done a number of films. Pradhan has done such roles in many films and he is still getting offers for the same for various movies. He has acted in Fareb, Zakham, Raaz, Kasoor, Gadar, Refugee and many more films. But he is now looking for a change of roles and thus has grown his hair long. Vishwajeet is looking out for roles that are interesting, be it of a comedian or a villain. Vishwajeet's latest was in 'Umrao Jaan' where he acted as, Dilawar Khan.
Nayantara sacked from Chennai Super Kings
The Chennai Super Kings has cancelled actor Nayantara's role as brand ambassador for the team. 'As Nayantara is unable to meet the commitments of regular match appearances, the team has now decided to go with a single star ambassador,' a release from the Chennai Super Kings team said here on Thursday. Actor Vijay, who received huge support from the audience during the inaugural match here on Wednesday, will participate in all ground promotions and match appearances.
"If the trailer scared the audiences so much, imagine what the film will do!!" Mohit Suri
To chill your spines, Director Mohit Suri is ready to strike with his horrendous flick, Raaz - the Mystery Continues (RTMC) produced by Vishesh Films. The trailer that was screened before couple of weeks along Fashion and Golmaal Returns had enthralled audiences. More frantic, High-spirited Mohit Suri speaks, "Obviously all of us were anxious to about the first look of RTMC. However, when we saw it for the first time ourselves in the preview theatre, we knew we had cracked it!!" Presented by Vishesh Films & SONY BMG, RTMC is slated to hit screens on 23rd January 2009. Hot sensational pair Emraan Hashmi-Kangana Ranaut team up alongside debutant Adhyayan Suman. On making of the trailer, Mohit says. "All of us had an idea of what the trailer would do, and to achieve it the look and feel of the trailer that was discussed and worked over a lot'I think this is the longest time to crack the first trailer in the history of Vishesh which is close to 40 films old!!" Raaz -The Mystery Continues was always one of the most awaited films of the year. Add to that the brand "Raaz" which still stands strong as the only Musical Supernatural Blockbuster of the decade. The first trailer has increased the expectations even further. "Both Mr. Mahesh Bhatt & Mukesh Bhatt were exhilarated by the trailer, and were confident it would do wonders, but the response has been over-whelming and surpassed all our expectations. Ours and SONY BMG phones haven't stopped ringing once people saw the trailer. The film trade guys and the distributors have been calling us non-stop!" When questioned on his apparent fight with Mahesh Bhatt on how the trailer, he smiles and says, "It wasn't a fight, though there was a lot of heat'being creative people we do have very strong point of views on how it should be'Bhattsaab wanted a trailer with dialogues whereas I thought we should just focus on strong visuals and musical score'" The weight of the legacy can be judged by the fact that it took Mohit 6 months just to convince Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt to let him make RTMC. "Its quite obvious, something which I was expecting'looking at the success of Raaz not only as a film but in every aspect'can you believe people still remember the music 6 years after it was released!!" Mohit who is neck deep now days in the post production of RTMC ends by saying, "The response to the trailer made me really happy for a moment, and now the realization of people's giant expectations from the movie has just set in'so here I am, making sure the film scares them as much as the trailer did!"