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India |
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Swati
Films International Entertainment & M.G. Movies Production |
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Ashok
Kullar, Govind Mishra
Seema Kullar presents the movie
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Tanvir
Durrani |
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MUSIC:
Bappi-Tutul
LYRICS: Sandeep Nath
SINGERS:
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Bobby
Khan, Remo |
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Riyaz
Sultan |
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Akram
Khan |
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location |
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Future
Studios, Sun Villa, Holiday Inn, Tulip Star, Renaissance Club,
Churchgate, Lokhandwala Complex, Juhu Beach, Mumbai, India |
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Rakesh
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| CAST |
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Adam
Bedi (Rahul, Tina's
boyfriend)
Nigar (also: Negar, Neeghar) Khan (Tina)
Rajat Bedi (Sanjeev, a psycho killer)
Meera Vasudevan (Nandi, sister of CBI Officer
Rakesh Khullar)
Nisha Harale
Milind Gunaji
Abhay Bhargav(a)
Tom Alter (Mr. Malhotra, Tina's father, businessman)
Rati Agnihotri (Kiran Jaitley, journalist)
Aiman Khan
Nitin Kumar
Divya (her debut) |
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Kabir was
to play one of the lead roles as 'Rakesh Khullar', a strict
and harsh
CBI Officer at the scene of the crime.
However, Kabir Bedi does not appear in this movie!
[ please see also the production diary below and please see Kabir-Bedi.com
exclusive news from September 11, 2004 ]
Kabir's son Adam has the main lead role in the thriller/action
movie.
He plays the strong-willed Rahul, born and bred in Switzerland.
For the love of his life, Rahul will do almost anything, perhaps
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PRODUCTION
• July 17, 2004 Nigar
Khan goes semi-nude
• June 25, 2004 News
Flash - Hello...Kaun Hai
• June 18, 2004 On
the sets - Hello...Kaun Hai
• June 18, 2004 Hello...Kaun Hai 5-day stint
• June 15, 2004 Shooting
of Hello...Kaun Hai
• June
14, 2004
Is
Bollywood becoming anglo-friendly? [slightly
different article, errors!]
• June 14, 2004
The
'foreign' factor in Bollywood
• June 9, 2004 Oops,
Negar did it again!
• May 31, 2004
Hum
Tum and Jassi
• May 24, 2004
Hello,
'Kaun Hai' Negar?
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May 20, 2004 Negar
Khan leaving little to imagination!
• May
11, 2004
Did
Bollywood's latest item girl pose topless for Men's magazine?
• May 10, 2004 Adam's
honeymoon with Bollywood
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April 29, 2004 'Madam,
I'm Adam'
• Negar Khan in a bikini scene on the set
• Nisha
Harale in a bikini scene on the set
NEGAR KHAN
• Indiafm
- Nigar Khan, the flower power girl wallpaper
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Negar
Khan at apunkachoice
NISHA HARALE
• Nisha
Harale - "Real" Miss
Mumbai embarrassed
ADAM BEDI
• Adam
Bedi's next two [movies]
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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
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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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QUICK BITS |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
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Rakesh Sawant, Hello...Kaun Hai is a "romantic action thriller". |
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PEOPLE |
• 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...
• 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.
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Like his father Kabir Adam is
a model-turned-actor. 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 has not formally
trained as an actor.
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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.
• 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.
Adam styled his hair for this film in a 'David Beckham'
look. According to his father Kabir
Bedi, 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
Bedi: "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
Bedi: "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."
• Adam Bedi is the boyfriend
of his co-star, 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
Bedi asked Nisha Harale 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".
• Nisha Harale was Miss Mumbai
in 1996.
• In April 1998, a woman posing as Miss Mumbai
1996 was arrested in New Delhi for alleged immoral
behaviour, starting a flood of phone calls to Nisha
Harale from friends, family members and even
companies for whom she was modelling. Nisha
Harale said: "I am the only one who has won
the Miss Mumbai crown, and the girl held by the Delhi
police is an impostor."
• Nisha Harale was a Gulf-Air
air hostess based in Bahrain and a jounalist
before she became a model in Mumbai.
• Nisha Harale is hugely popular
- not only in India but also in - Norway!
• Rajat Bedi starred as a fanatic
terrorist with Kabir
Bedi in Anil Sharma's THE
HERO (2003).
• Negar Khan plays the female
lead, replacing Nikita Anand.
• Negar Khan is also a successful
model with an international career. She appeared also
in Indian music video clips.
• Negar Khan made a guest appearance
with a song from Shaadi Ka Laddoo in Sony Entertainment's
popular TV serial Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin.
• Shaadi Ka Laddoo was Negar Khan's debut film.
• Negar Khan also has a part in Kabir's fantasy-thriller RUDRAKSH (2004).
• Rati Agnihotri also co-stars with Kabir in HELLO...KAUN
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| INFORMATION -
PRODUCTION DIARY |
»April 25,
2004 - Ashok Khullar and Govind Mishra, the
producers of Swati Films Entertainment & M.G.
Movies Production, announced today at Mona Kapoor and
Archana Shourie's Future Studios, Goregaon, their joint
venture, the action movie
Hello...Kaun
Hai. Producer Ashok Kullar
broke the coconut during the mahurat ceremony, guest
producer Suresh Sharma sounded the clapper board and
the camera was switched on by guest director Dr. Chandra
Prakash Dwivedi. Adam
Bedi, Negar Khan and Meera Vasudevan played the mahurat
scene. The mahurat shot was followed by a party
the same evening. Kabir's son
Adam is starring, Kabir has
also one of the leading roles.
»End of April 2004 - The very
first 15-day-schedule of filming has now begun on location
in Mumbai.
»April 29, 2004 - In an interview
about Hello...Kaun Hai, Adam Bedi
mentions his forthcoming film Charas, in which he plays
a small but significant role. "I've been learning
the Hindi language", he says.
»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!".
»May 19, 2004 - Nisha Harale shot
a swimming scene and Negar Khan and Adam Bedi recently
shot a bathroom scene. But
Negar's
bath is rudely interrupted by spooky hissing and popping
sounds. She flees the bathroom, into Adam's arms, convinced
that someone is out to murder her. But Adam checks out
the bathroom and finds nothing, telling her it was all
down to her imagination. - The movie is expected to premiere
in 2004.
»May 28, 2004 - Another 7-day
shooting schedule was recently completed.
»June 4, 2004 - The completed
7-day stint is mentioned again.
»June 11, 2004 - Director Sawant
and producer Mishra left Mumbai for Delhi and Uttar Pradesh
to research new locations for Hello...Kaun Hai.
»June 15, 2004 - According to
Smash Hits, Divya will make her debut in Hello...Kaun
Hai.
»June 18, 2004 - A second five-day
filming schedule
has been completed. Adam Bedi and co-star Rajat Bedi
filmed
several
scenes
on location in Mumbai, including on Juhu-beach.
»July 17, 2004 - New publicity
stills for Hello...Kaun Hai show leading star Nigar Khan
adorned with flower petals - and not much else. [ Indiafm
wallpaper - Nigar Khan, the flower power girl ]
»July 30, 2004 - Another 15-day
shooting schedule will start next week, again in Mumbai.
»August 16, 2004 - The first Hello...Kaun
Hai promotion poster has been published. The movie is
scheduled to be released end of September 2004, however,
it is still in production these days.
»September 11, 2004 - Today, on
the eve of his departure for the Italian entertainment
show L'ISOLA
DEI FAMOSI, Kabir
Bedi told kabir-bedi.com
in an exclusive interview that he is not involved in
any way in Rakesh Sawant's movie project and thus he
does not star in Hello...Kaun Hai.
Kabir Bedi has
not been signed on the project and he did not film any
scenes for Hello...Kaun Hai.
[please check also news section: Kabir-Bedi.com
exclusive September 11, 2004]
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