On
the
sets
of
Vipul
Shah"s
time-travel
caper
Action
Replay
Akshay
Kumar
retro-wig
which
he
wears
for
his
1970s
look
is
his
most
prized
possession.
Apparently
the
wig
designed
by
one
of
Hollywood"s
biggest
makeup
artistes
Paul
Pattison
(who
has
done
films
like
Braveheart
and
Mission
Impossible
2)
made
Akshay
paranoid.
He
was
petrified
of
losing
it.
Says
Vipul,
“Since
we
haven"t
copied
our
1970s
look
from
Hindi
films
Akshay
and
Aishwarya
sat
down
to
look
at
real-life
footage
from
the
decade
to
get
the
look
right.
They
specially
looked
at
television
footage
of
live
cricket
matches
in
the
1970s.
Akshay
was
busy
peering
at
the
pavilion
of
spectators,
what
they
wore,
how
they
spoke
moved
their
body
language.
That"s
how
he
conceived
his
character
in
the
70s.
That"s
where
Paul
Pattison"s
wig
came
in."
There
are
400
other
wigs
all
done
under
Pattison"s
supervision
for
junior
artistes
posing
as
people
in
the
1970s.
Says
Vipul,
“We
were
very
particular
about
the
1970s
look
recreated
at
the
Nitin
Chandrakant
Desai's
studio
in
Karjat.
We
needed
the
cars
from
the
70s
which
we
had
to
get
from
all
over
India
from
private
owners
at
a
very
heavy
price.
The
BEST
buses
in
the
1970s
were
very
different
from
their
counterparts
today.
Getting
authentic
BEST
buses
from
the
70s
was
the
hardest
part
of
the
whole
era-
recreation.
Getting
Akshay
and
Aishwarya
to
go
retro
was
the
easiest
thing.
They
had
a
ball
getting
into
their
wigs
clothes
and
body
language."
We
saw
Shahrukh
Khan
and
Deepika
Padukone
traveling
back
to
the
1970s
in
Om
Shanti
Om.
But
Akshay
was
adamant
about
doing
his
retro-look
very
different
from
SRK.
Director
Vipul
Shah
takes
serious
umbrage
to
the
suggestion
that
the
retro
look
in
his
film
is
similar
to
Om
Shanti
Om.
“We
haven"t
copied
anything
from
the
films
of
the
1970s
(as
Om
Shanti
Om
has).
If
we
got
into
that
35
mm
space
we"d
have
ended
up
copying
only
Mr.
Bachchan"s
clothes
and
style.
Akshay
insisted
we
do
more
authentic
research.
We
dug
into
archival
material
on
the
clothes
mannerisms
and
people
of
the
1970s." And
now
Vipul
Shah
is
paranoid
about
his
1970s
look
going
out.
“We,
Akshay"s
designer
Shabina
Khan,
Aishwarya"s
designer
Manish
Malhotra
and
all
of
us
have
worked
really
hard
to
give
'Action
Replay"
a
unique
look.
If
that
look
is
leaked
out
we"d
lose
our
biggest
USP."
Much
like
the
Big
B"s
Paa
look
which
was
given
out
premature.
“We"re
taking
stringent
steps
to
ensure
the
confidentiality
of
our
look,"
says
Vipul.
And
what
does
he
have
to
say
to
Action
Replay
being
compared
with
'Back
To
The
Future"?
“Well
earlier
my
film
was
supposed
to
be
'The
Curious
Case
Of
Benjamin
Button".
Now
that
accusation
has
been
wrongly
passed
on
to
another
film
(Paa).
Now
I"m
supposed
to
have
copied
'Back
To
The
Future".
Again,
untrue.
If
anything
all
time-travel
films
including
mine
are
inspired
by
H.G
Wells"
Time
Machi."