Bolloxed Bollynip film
Indo-Japanese film falls through, Asin is fuming
Bollywood–Titbits-santabanta.com July 8, 2009 Kamal Haasan has apparently pulled out of the big-budget Walt Disney production. Asin’s prestigious Indo-Japanese project The 19th Step is apparently shelved, leaving the comely actress Asin with tons of time that she had set aside not only to learn and practice the ancient art of Kalaripayattu, but also to shoot for the film in Japan and Kerala...more..
Just the description of this trilingual Disney movie that was to be filmed in Tamil, English and Japanese sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, which kind of a shame because the story of this film revolves around a Japanese samurai warrior, played by Japan’s Johny Depp, Tadanobu Asano. The interesting storyline has a samurai traveling to India to learn the secrets of the ancient Dravidian martial art of Kalaripayattu from a veteran martial art trainer (Kamal Haasan). In the process he falls in love with a beautiful Chera princess, Asin shown above.
wikipedia.org/wiki/The_19th_Step
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July 9th, 2009 at 1:43 am
India Times.com The-19th-Step-shelved
Vikram had heard the script from M T Vasudevan Nair a few years back, and was initially very keen to do the role of the ‘Asan’ or guru, who teaches Asin, a princess, the art of Kalaripayattu. The star was offered a price that was almost twice what he gets for doing a Tamil film. The film would have been his big ticket to international cinema as Walt Disney were the co-producers.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:08 am
This film sounds interesting. Do you think you could explain a bit more, please.