Nevada
(US)
(ANI):
Famous
Hollywood
editor
Mark
Helfrich
of
X-Men:
The
Last
Stand
fame,
now
has
're-edited'
the
English
version
of
Hrithik
Roshan's
movie
Kites
after
it
was
're-worked'
by
well
known
American
filmmaker
Brett
Ratner
(Red
Dragon).
Satellite
Award
winner
editor-director-actor
Helfrich
is
member
of
prestigious
Academy
of
Motion
Picture
Arts
and
Sciences
who
has
edited
35
movies.
Aiming
at
Western
audiences,
Ratner
was
reportedly
asked
to
re-format
Kites
to
fit
in
the
Western
psyche.
It
may
be
the
first
for
a
Hollywood
director
formatting
a
Bollywood
movie.
Now,
BMI
award
winner
Hollywood"s
Graeme
Revell
(Pineapple
Express)
has
provided
“additional
background
score" although
the
original
music
was
by
Filmfare
winner
Rajesh
Roshan
(Julie)
Intercultural
romance
thriller
Kites
has
lot
of
Hollywood
and
“foreign" element
attached
to
it.
Besides
Uruguay
born
Mexican
actress-model
MTV
winner
Barbara
Mori
(Inspiración)
as
its
leading
lady,
its
cast
also
includes
Hollywood
actors
Nicholas
Brown,
Luce
Rains,
Steven
Michael
Quezada,
Jamie
Haqqani,
Dave
Colon,
Clark
Sanchez,
and
Ronald
Hamilton.
Consulting
producer
is
Gilley
Grey;
production
design
by
David
Baca;
special
effects
coordination
by
Skip
Burrows;
stunts
by
Mark
Brooks,
Bobby
Burns,
Edward
Duran,
Angelique
Midthunder,
and
Chester
E.
Tripp
III;
and
stunt
coordinators
Spiro
Razatos
and
Denney
Pierce.
It
was
filmed
in
USA
in
Las
Vegas
(Nevada),
Santa
Fe
(New
Mexico),
and
Los
Angeles
(California).
Salsa
dance
based
Kites,
film
with
ambiguous
title,
in
English-Hindi-Spanish,
budgeted
around
30
million
dollars,
is
slated
for
May
21
worldwide
release
in
over
60
countries.
Directed
by
Filmfare
winner
Anurag
Basu
(Life
in
a
Metro),
produced
by
Filmfare
winner
Rakesh
Roshan
(Krrish),
“Kites" is
a
said
to
be
a
love
story
that
defies
boundaries-cultures-rules-barriers-language.
Besides
Mori,
it
stars
Filmfare
winner
Hrithik
Roshan
(Jodhaa
Akbar),
Filmfare
winner
Kangana
Ranaut
(Gangster),
Kabir
Bedi
(Take
3
Girls),
etc.
Its
two
versions—Hindi
for
domestic
Indian
audience
and
English
for
international
audiences—were
reportedly
simultaneously
shot.