Now a film inspired by Tsunami
Wednesday,
April
04,
2007
Bollywood
is
known
for
its
penchant
to
strike
when
the
iron
is
hot.
And
promptly
jump
into
a
breaking
story
peg
for
a
screen
story.
Whether
it
is
the
devastatingly
brave
Black
Friday
based
on
the
1993
Bombay
blasts,
or
the
recent
sleazy
Undertrial,
based
on
the
insane
looking
father
who
allegedly
raped
his
own
daughter.
It is not only Hollywood and Brangelina who get away with all the accolades for making A Mighty Heart, about the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl. It has even gone a step further and made Provoked, the story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia who killed her husband, not being able to bare his torture anymore. Though it is made out of Hollywood, Jagmohan Mundhra is an Indian after all, and it stars India's international face, Aishwarya Rai, in the lead.
And Bollywood not only made a film, Bandit Queen, about the woman dacoit, Phoolan Devi, it recently released Wounded on another dreaded dacoit, Seema Parihar, who in fact played the lead herself.
True
to
type,
Bollywood
is
all
set
to
shoot
a
love
story
revolving
around
the
calamitous
Indian
Ocean
Tsunami
in
2004
even
while
scandals
are
being
unearthed
about
the
exploitation
of
the
Tsunami
survivors
in
kidney
sale.
Tsunami,
is
proposed
to
be
a
bilingual
film
in
Hindi
and
English
to
be
directed
by
award-winning
Mumbai
filmmaker
Ujjal
Chatterjee,
whose
attempt
it
will
be
to
pay
homage
to
the
2.3
lakh
who
were
swept
away
in
minutes
by
the
killer
waves
on
December
26,
2004.
"People
have
woken
up
to
issues
like
global
warming
and
important
events
like
the
Tsunami,
which
will
forever
remain
embedded
in
our
minds
and
that
is
why
it
makes
an
interesting
subject
to
film," Chatterjee
was
quoted
as
having
said.
The
Tsunami-ravaged
southern
coastal
town
of
Nagapattinam
will
be
one
of
the
main
backdrops
for
the
film.
Other
locations
are
in
Bali
in
Indonesia
and
Phuket
in
Thailand.
Chatterjee claims that his film will revolve around three main characters -- a geologist who travels to Bali to study tectonic movements when the Tsunami strikes, his former girlfriend and her husband, who get separated during their honeymoon in the resort.
After
months
of
search,
the
geologist
will
find
his
former
love,
traumatised
in
a
camp
after
her
husband
leaves
Bali
losing
all
hope
of
finding
his
wife,
is
how
the
storyline
will
go.
Chatterjee's
earlier
film,
Escape
from
Taliban,
was
also
about
the
true
story
of
an
Indian
woman's
flight
from
Afghanistan,
but
got
into
plenty
of
controversy
largely
because
the
real-life
protagonist
attacked
Chatterjee
for
making
an
Unfaithful
film.
She
then
proceeded
to
make
one
of
her
own.
More
recently,
Chatterjee
made
Unfaithful,
which,
pre-release,
he
tried
to
link
with
the
Jessica
Lal
murder
case,
but
could
not
manage
to
capitalise
on.
A portion of Tsunami will focus on unsung heroes like a priest in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu who gave shelter to hundreds of victims. Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherjee, who earlier came together in their hit film, Ghulam, are expected to play the main roles, and heavyweight actor Amitabh Bachchan is being contemplated to play the role of a senior geologist or a priest.
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