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JALWA
(new title, since February 2004, according to script writer
Atul Sharma,
yet unconfirmed) |
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big-screen-movie |
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social
drama |
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| PRODUCTION |
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India |
| production |
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Rishika
Bollywood Eye |
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producer |
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Rishikesh,
Farook |
| screenplay |
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Atul
Sharma |
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MUSIC:
LYRICS:
SINGERS:
TITLES:
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Sanjay
Malwankar |
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location |
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State
Reserve Police Force (SRPF)
Club, Jogeshwari (Mumbai suburb), India
Ghodbunder/Ghod Bandar (place in the North of
Mumbai),
India
Chandivali, Mumbai suburb
other locations in Mumbai, India |
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Rajesh
Kumar Singh |
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| CAST |
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Sharbani
Mukherji (also: Mukherjee) (call
girl)
Adam Bedi (main lead)
Mukesh Rishi
Nirmal Pandey
Rajesh Kumar Singh
Rajat Bedi
Meeta Vashisht
Baby Samridhi Shetty
Amit Hingorani |
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| SUMMARY |
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The
movie is about the life and times of a call girl. |
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| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
part |
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Kabir was
originally to make a guest appearance.
However, he does not appear in this movie.
[ please see also the production
diary below and please see Kabir-Bedi.com
exclusive news from July 1, 2004 ] |
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want to
see Kabir in it?
check TV listings of Kabir's work - current/archives |
| not
to be confused with |
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Pankaj
Parashar's fast-paced drugs traffic thriller Jalwa, starring
Naseeruddin Shah in a 'Beverly-Hills-Cop'-like role. |
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HIT!
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MISS!
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BEDI PICTURES |
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movie
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PRODUCTION
• May
10, 2004 Adam's
honeymoon with Bollywood
•
April 29, 2004 'Madam,
I'm Adam'
• December 11, 2003 Still simmering...Sharbani Mukherjee
• July 11, 2003 'Wonderful
Moments' in store: Adam comes to Bollywood
• June 27, 2003 On
the sets - A All About Her
• May 30, 2003 On
the sets - A All About Her
• April 11, 2003 On
the sets - A All About Her
SHARBANI MUKHERJEE
•
Face2Face
With Sensational Sharbani Mukherjee
ADAM BEDI
• Adam
Bedi's next two [movies]
• Gen
Next rules Bollywood (Adam Bedi)
• Adam
Bedi: Daddy's Baby!
• Adam
Bedi: On the eve of big things?
• Private
lives, public display (Adam Bedi)
• Bend
it like Adam Bedi
• Adam
Bedi's Bollywood debut [Adam's official screen debut
is Charas, see below]
• Kabir
Bedi's son to make his debut in films [Adam's official screen
debut is Charas, see below] |
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• Kabir
would have faced the camera
for the first time together with his son Adam
Bedi for this film.
• However, Adam Bedi now
stars alongside
his father Kabir in the thriller HELLO...KAUN
HAI.
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Adam Bedi is Kabir's son
by American designer/aromatherapist Susan Humphreys. Adam
was three when Kabir and
Susan separated.
• Born in Los Angeles and having grown up in
the US, Adam
Bedi speaks
with a strong American accent.
• Adam Bedi graduated in the
Performing Arts from Queen Mary's College in London.
• At the age of ten, Adam
Bedi picked up snow boarding. In
his childhood days started his great passion for sports,
in particular for adventure sports. He says: "I
am very passionate about adventure sports and hope
to introduce many adventure sports in India. Talks
are on with various corporate companies. In fact, there
was a time when I wanted to be a stuntman."
• For many years, Adam Bedi played
the sport Paint Ball professionally.
• Other adventure sports which Adam
Bedi likes to do: White-Water Rafting, Skate
Boarding, Bungee Jumping, Sky Diving and - Roller
Coaster Riding...
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Adam Bedi got his Masters'
license in scuba diving in Goa and teached
the sport for several years.
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Adam Bedi wanted to become
a fighter pilot and had already decided to join the
US army when in 2001 a visit to India to come and see
his dad
Kabir changed
his life.
• Like his father Kabir, Adam
Bedi was an international model before he
turned to acting. Adam modelled for many brands: Lawman
Jeans (brand ambassador), Dr. Morepen (health products)
and Kinetic GF (for both also in TV commercials), Toyota
Qualis, M Square (shirts), Roopmilan (fashion), Monte
Carlo (fashion) and Roopam (fashion, also catalogue
model).
• Fashion features and ads with Adam
Bedi have been published in Men's Vogue,
Cosmopolitan, Society and Hi! Blitz, among others.
Adam has also modelled for the fashion shows of well-known
Indian designers.
•
Adam Bedi is the boyfriend
of very popular singer/actress/dancer Nisha
Harale.
• Adam Bedi spotted Nisha
Harale on February 12, 2002 in a Mumbai disco
on the dance floor. Two days later, on Valentine's
Day they had their first date
- and have been together since.
• After four months of courtship, Adam asked Nisha to
move into his one-room rented apartment in Versova.
The modern concept of living together is often rejected
by conservative minded people of Indian society. And
there was also Adam's famous father, Kabir
Bedi, for Nisha's family to consider
- after all, he is known for his many relationships...
Adam says in April 2004: "My dad looks at the
whole thing very humorously. When all this was going
on,
he would
smile
and say: 'I don't think my reputation helps much".
• Adam Bedi has not formally
trained as an actor.
• In the thriller Charas (Opium,
2004), Adam Bedi plays a young British
botany student who disappears in the Himalayan Charas
valley. Noted character actor Irfan Khan plays the
lead in Tigmanshu Dhulia's movie. Adam took his father Kabir to
a private screening of Charas - after having slept
over it, Kabir had
some positive criticism but found Adam's movie "quite
entertaining". Charas is Adam's first released
movie, making it his official screen debut although
it was filmed later than other movies Adam has worked
on.
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Adam Bedi filmed in August
2003 at the world-famous Hindu festival, the Kumbh
Mela, in Nashik, Western India. Adam is
the leading man in Sanjay Jha's crossover film Strings
which was
30-day
start-to-finish small budget project. According to
his father Kabir, Strings is about a British boy
(Adam Bedi) who travels to the Kumbh Mela and falls
in love with the daughter
of
an Indian
priest. The film tells the story of six characters
who relate to the same situation with different perspectives.
Filming of the 90 minutes movie took place among millions
of
devotees
and Hindu
Holy
men. The
team even got permission to film scenes inside the
temple and amidst the crowds. Strings is now in post-production
(as of June
2004). Director Jha plans to promote
the movie outside of India, too, at international film
festivals.
• Adam Bedi has a lead role
in Wonderful Moments, directed by Rajesh
Sheth. Wonderful
Moments was made in English, and dubbed into Spanish,
French and Italian to reach a bigger (Western) audience.
Adam's girlfriend, the multi-talented and very popular
model/singer/dancer Nisha Harale is one of his co-stars
in Wonderful Moments,
her big-screen debut. According to
Adam, "an actor should react
instinctively to scenes. Besides, there's always dad
(Kabir Bedi)
to guide me."
Adam explains about his role in Wonderful
Moments: "My parents showered
love on me, but I never knew what an Indian home is like. [Wonderful Moments]
is letting me in an Indian home for the first time" (July 2003 interview).
• According to a July 2003 interview, Adam Bedi also
signed
up
for
Vivek
Agnihotri's True Story (to be filmed in English language and based on the Hollywood
drugs thrillers Traffic (2000), starring Michael
Douglas, and Blow (2001), with Johnny Depp) -
but
- "I
don't
speak
much
Hindi
so
I
can't
join
mainstream films yet. I go by my instincts when I sign films."
• In a
February 2003 interview
with the magazine
Hi!
Blitz, 'Adam and his Eve',
Adam Bedi talks, among other things, about his father Kabir: "He is my dad eventually, so I gotta be proud of him.
But more than being a dad, he is a great friend. As for his many women... you
have got to admire a man who has accomplished so much in life, be it professionally...
or
personally!"
• In an interview with G Magazine about his film
Wonderful Moments, Adam Bedi says
in August 2003: "I am getting offers from other
filmmakers too but I want to learn Hindi fluently first
so that I can dub for myself." He also talks about
the influence of his
father Kabir: "I would like to gain the experience and confidence
to be an actor of my dad’s calibre. He never restricted himself doing only
Hindi movies. I would like to take Indian talent outside for the world to see
and eventually land up in Hollywood one day for sure." He adds: "I
started from scratch and struggled like any newcomer. Dad (Kabir
Bedi) taught me the real way to succeed in life by making me
do all the ground work. He could have helped me and I would have got work merely
by mentioning his name. But it was the other way around. I used to travel by
bus or cab and knock various agencies’ doors with my portfolio. Finally
I got my break and modelled for Roopam and did an ad film for Dr. Morepen."
• Mukesh Rishi appeared
1999 with Kabir
in the thriller KOHRAM.THE
EXPLOSION.
• director Rajesh Kumar Singh will also
star in his own movie.
• Sharbani Mukherji is
Rani Mukherji's cousin.
• Sharbani Mukherji has
an extraordinary hobby, she "loves to read faces".
• Sharbani Mukherji represented India
for the 'World Folk Festival'.
• Rajat Bedi starred as a fanatic terrorist
with Kabir in
Anil Sharma's THE
HERO (2003).
• Nirmal Pandey and Sharbani
Mukherji already worked together with director Rajesh
Kumar Singh in Aanch (2003).
• Nirmal Pandey has quite an unusual
record on his name: the popular stage and movie actor is the
only man ever to receive a Best Actress award in the film industry.
He received the award in 1997 at the Valenciennes Film Festival,
France, for his most convincing portrayal of a transvestite
in Amol Palekar's movie Daayraa.
However, Pandey had to share his award with Sonali Kulkarni,
the female lead.
• Amit Hingorani appeared together with Sharbani
Mukherji in his screen debut Kaise Kahoon Ke Pyaar
Hai (2003), also starring Sunny Deol.
• When Amit Hingorani joined the Hare
Krishna cult, he was renamed as Damodar Das. He has pledged
to quit eating meat and drinking alcohol.
• Rajesh Kumar Singh has a Masters degree
in Management Studies and is a writer, director, actor and
producer since the 1980s, credited with innovative TV work.
• Rajesh Kumar Singh supervised in 1983
the first ever sponsored TV programme in the history of Indian
TV.
• Rajesh Kumar Singh researched and
wrote Surf Dhamaka, the first game show on state TV.
• Rajesh Kumar Singh is also the writer
of Shanti, the first daily soap of Indian TV.
• Rajesh
Kumar Singh is also known in India
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PRODUCTION DIARY |
»April 11,
2003 -
Producers Rishikesh - Farook announce today A All About
Her, the new venture of their production firm Rishika
Bollywood
Eye(s). Sharbani
Mukherjee will star in the lead role and Mukesh Rishi
has been confirmed to star, too. More cast members will
be announced soon.
»April 16, 2003 - The movie is scheduled
to be launched today.
»May 19, 2003 - After being delayed,
the movie is scheduled to be launched today
on set in Mumbai. The initial four days of shooting
are scheduled to take place
at various
locations,
including the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) Club,
Jogeshwari (Mumbai suburb) and places in Mumbai.
»May 27, 2003 - A second shooting schedule
is planned to start today, with filming at
Ghod Bandar, Chandivali and other Mumbai locales. A
few new
cast
members are
announced, the rest of the cast will be named soon.
»June 27, 2003 - Kabir
and his son
Adam Bedi have been signed to star
together for the first time in A All About Her. Father
Kabir will
make a guest appearance and son Adam will star in the
main lead opposite Sharbani Mukherjee. The director,
Rajesh Kumar Singh will also play an important role.
»July 10, 2003 - The movie seems to be
delayed again: An initial (!) 10-day shooting schedule
at various locations in Mumbai is supposed to start
today.
»July 11, 2003 - The Hindustan Times
mentions A All About Her in an interview with Adam Bedi
about his forthcoming debut movie Wonderful Moments. Adam says about his girlfriend Nisha
Harale: "We live together and love each other".
»July 27, 2003 - Another 15-day shooting
schedule is planned to start today, again in Ghodbunder/Ghod
Bandar and other locations in Mumbai.
»November 25, 2003 - Adam tells Mumbai-based
newspaper Mid-Day: "I'm taking Hindi lessons four times
a week to help me get the dialogues right - but I'm
still
getting there".
»Early December 2003 -
Only three reels of A All About Her have now been completed.
»December 11, 2003 - The lead star,
Sharbani Mukherjee, mentions her movie A All About Her
in an interview with newspaper The Hindu: "'A'
is the story of a girl's journey and her experiences. Kabir
Bedi and his son Adam Bedi are cast opposite
me".
»February
2004 - Four reels are complete.
»May 10, 2004 - In another interview,
Adam talks about his long-term relationship with his co-star
Nisha Harale: "Our's is a relationship where none
of us take each other for granted. Nisha has met my mom
(Kabir's ex-wife
Susan) in California. They got along so well that I turned
to be the odd one out. Registration apart, there isn't
much of a dramatic difference between us and a married
couple. Being this way has helped us forward our respective
careers. We are in love and that's what matters!".
»April 29, 2004 - In an interview
about HELLO...KAUN
HAI, another movie starring Kabir
and
his son together, Adam Bedi mentions his forthcoming film,
Tigmanshu Dhulia's Charas, in which he plays a small but
significant role.
"I've been learning the Hindi language",
he says.
»June
26,
2004 - No change, four reels are complete.
»July 1, 2004 - Kabir has
announced that he will NOT [any more]
participate in Rajesh Kumar Singh's project.
[please see news section: Kabir-Bedi.com
exclusive news from July 1, 2004] |
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