| GENERAL
DATA |
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| other
titles |
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The Hero
- Love Story of a Spy |
| catch
phrases |
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A magnum opus that will stir the patriotic passion in you
• Betrayal, power, a new mission and destiny
• One man will lead them to their mission - and one man will
stop them dead
• The biggest film in the history of Indian cinema |
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| release
category |
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big-screen-movie |
| genre |
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action/thriller |
| language |
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Hindi |
| length |
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184 minutes;
160 minutes in US |
| release
dates |
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India - April 9, 2003 (Calcutta), special screening, thereafter
worldwide premieres, more than 600 copies used
• India - April 10, 2003 (Bombay), main premiere, coinciding
with director Anil Sharma's birthday
• India - April 11, 2003 (New Delhi), special screening, at
Siri Fort Auditorium, Asiad Village district, for high-ranking politicians
• Great Britain - April 11, 2003, nationwide - 184 minute
version
• USA - April 11, 2003 - 160 minute version
(New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Toronto,
Chicago) |
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| PRODUCTION |
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| country
of production |
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India |
| production |
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Time Movies
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| executive
producer |
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Dhirajlal
Shah, Pravin Shah, Hasmukh Shah,
co-producer: Manu Shah |
| screenplay |
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Shaktimaan |
| music |
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MUSIC: Uttam Singh,
LYRICS: (late) Anand Bakshi, Javed Akhtar
SINGERS: Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Jaspinder Narula, Hariharan,
Sunidhi Chauhan, Sardool Sikander
10 songs
on CD version, published February 20, 2003, Times Music Audio
TITLES:
"Tere Sheher Ka Kya Hai Naam, Mohabbat Hai"
"Dil Mein Hain Pyar"
"Tum Bhi Na Mano"
"In Mast Nigahon Se", also: "In Mast Nigahon Mein"
"Mari Koyal Ne Aise Cook" (Punjabi) |
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| photography |
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Kabir
Lall |
| distribution |
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| filming
location |
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hill
station Kullu Manali, "Valley of the Gods/Gateway to the
Himalayas",
Himachal Pradesh district, Northern India
Lonavia, Pune district, India
Bombay Film City, India (the scenes involving a glass pavillion
supposedly at Dal Lake in the Northern Indian mountains)
Toronto, Canada
summit of Jungfraujoch and Interlaken, Switzerland (please see
also NEWS section) |
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| DIRECTOR |
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Anil Sharma
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| CAST |
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Sunny
Deol (secret agent
Major Arun Khanna; alias Ajay Chakraborty, Wahid Khan, Major Batra)
Preity Zinta (Kashmiri shepherdess Reshma, from Bakrawal)
Priyanka Chopra (Kabir's/Zakaria's
daughter Dr. Shayna, also: Shaheen)
Amrish Puri (baddie Ishaq Khan)
Rajpal Yadav (Dorji, secret agent and Major Arun Khanna's
assistent)
Deep Dillion (Col. Hidayatulla)
Rajat Bedi (fanatic terrorist Wasim Khan)
Khaalid Mohammed (Maulana Azhar)
Shabaz Khan (Inderjeet)
Vallabh Vyas (Reshma's father)
Pradeep Rawat (Kapoor)
Mike Lorio, American professional wrestler (Kabir's/Zakaria's
bodyguard)
Parveen Dabas (Reshma's live-saver, from Pakistan) |
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| SUMMARY |
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| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
part |
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Kabir plays the multi-billionaire
businessman Zakaria, Dr. Shaheen's father,
Zakaria is originally from Pakistan, but lives in exile in Canada,
and runs the pharmaceutical group ZAKS while financially supporting
pro-Pakistani insurgents in Kashmir |
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| Kabir's
personal assistant |
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Mohd.
Hussain Khan (make-up)
- a job well-done! |
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| Kabir's
showstopper |
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| tv
broadcasts |
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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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the
Chinese movie "Hero", made December 2002 by director Yimou
Zhang (although you'd have to be REALLY confused!) - or with David
Dhawan's 1997 Indian success "Hero No.1", starring Rakesh
Bedi |
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HIT!
yum! |
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MISS!
eek! |
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MORE INFORMATION WILL BE ADDED === |
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| IN
SHORT... |
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attractive,
elegant but oh-so-dangerous tiger gets to play effortlessly
the
rather significant part of a billionaire with a dormant conscience
in successful big-budget action film à la James Bond. |
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| discussion |
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discuss
this movie with others |
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| KABIR
BEDI PICTURES |
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| Kabir
stills |
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movie
picture galleries |
| reviews
w/ Kabir pix |
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| other
links w/ Kabir pix |
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THE
HERO - official website - with picture of Kabir
relaxing during filming, another Kabir
picture, glasses, black cap, in section Downloads, many trailers,
too!
NEW! The
Hero - filmfare at indiatimes.com, technically downsized copy
of official website, two good-sized portrait pictures of Kabir
wearing white cap/black cap, (accessible via both, public section
and password-only section)
ACTION
trailer radiosargam.com - 112 k - scroll down, Kabir
in it! In profile, with hat and white scarf, in another scene: wearing
silver-grey suit, dashing!
9
trailers indiafm.com -
Trailer #1: with Kabir!
Trailer #2: New Year's Eve celebrations/engagement with Reshma/pavillion-scenes/Kashmir,
main song, without Kabir
Trailer #3: 2nd engagement in Canada, one of the main songs, several
appearances of Kabir:
good pictures!
Trailer #4: Kashmir scenes, song "Tum Bhi Na Mano", without
Kabir
Trailer #5: Indian army on way to assignment in Kashmir, without
Kabir
Trailer #6: hero/heroine unhappy in Toronto, without Kabir
Trailer #7: wedding scenes, Toronto, Reshma as bridesmaid in lovely
blue-golden festive gear, Kabir
appears as father of the bride during party scenes, again near end
of trailer, wearing black cap
Trailer #8: general movie scenes, without Kabir
Trailer #9: BEST TRAILER, good Kabir
pictures!
- with one bodyguard scene, several scenes with Kabir:
- Kabir scene: riding
in a car, in profile, wearing white scarf, putting on a black hat
- other Kabir scene:
"Wanted!" portrait of Zakaria, sponsor of fundamentalists,
in computer-files, black cap, without glasses
- other Kabir scene:
full portrait, using mobile
PLEASE NOTE:
you'll find also four trailers from Kabir's
TALAASH (2003)
movie on the same web page 9
trailers indiafm.com!
Kabir appears several
times in trailer #4, for instance in the opening scenes - looking
as good as ever and convincingly menacing, Kabir
brandishes a combat knife!
March 14, 2003 Kabir
Bedi: bad guy returns - b4utv.com, with a picture of Kabir
March 12, 2003
"I feel more connected with Bollywood now" - rediff.com
Kabir Bedi interview,
Bombay, with a picture of Kabir |
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| LINKS |
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| official
website |
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The
Hero - official homepage - with 2 pictures of Kabir,
many trailers! |
| video
trailers |
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The
Hero - official homepage several trailers
• SONG
trailer radiosargam.com - 112 k - scroll down, scenes of hero
and Reshma, main love song "Dil Mein Hain Pyar" (played
seven times in movie)
• MAST
NIGAHON SONG trailer radiosargam.com - 112 k - scroll
down, song "In Mast Nigahon Mein", slow, rhythmic beat,
lyrics from Javed Akhtar
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| reviews |
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• April
24, 2003
Sunny:
Hero zero - b4utv.com
• April
23, 2003 This
Hero makes big money - newspaper Mid-day
• April 16, 2003 The
Hero's sound start - newspaper Mid-day, Kabir
mentioned
• April 16, 2003
Grandeur,
the watchword - newstoday.com
• April 11, 2003 a
comicbook spy movie - rediff.com, Kabir's
performance praised
• April 11, 2003 From
Kashmir to Canada With a Bollywood James Bond - New York Times,
from critic Lawrence van Gelder, password-only page
• film
review - radiosargam.com, Kabir
mentioned
• The
Hero - Love Story of a Spy - indiafm.com, Kabir's
performance praised
(online newspaper mid-day.com links to the same
review, therefore not listed here twice)
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| other
related links |
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•
music
review at planetbollywood.com review of film songs
• movie
stills at radiosargam.com - pictures from movie, no Kabir
• Preity
Zinta at apunkachoice.com
• Sunny
Deol at apunkachoice.com
• Amrish
Puri at apunkachoice.com
• Priyanka
Chopra at apunkachoice.com - Miss World 2000
• March 11, 2003 "I
am not married to Aamir Khan!" rediff.com Preity Zinta
interview
• January 10, 2002 "The
Hero rises after Gadar" apunkachoice.com |
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
• Kabir's attractive
daughter in the movie, born in Pakistan, now lives with
her father in Toronto, Canada, and is a successful medical
specialist who helps paralysed heroine Reshma back to her
feet.
• Kabir's arrest warrant
as a sponsor of terrorism, seen for only seconds on a computer screen, lists
BLACK as the colour of Kabir's eyes.
Oh dear... looks like we weren't expected to actually read the document... |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• Kabir's daughter
in the movie, Priyanka Chopra has her
first movie appearance in The Hero. She was Miss World
2000.
• Parveen
Dabas, who saves Reshma's life and wants to marry her,
plays a small part in The Hero. He played the part of fiancé Hemant
Rai in Mira Nair's success movie Monsoon Wedding (2001) just
as well.
• Mike Lorio, Kabir's/Zakaria's
bodyguard, is a well-known American professional wrestler who
often participated in movie productions. He is even slightly
bigger and much heavier than Kabir; Mike weighs
350 pounds (about 160 kilo). Unfortunately, Mike Lorio only
has one important scene in The Hero - but it's a big scene full
of action! |
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| INFORMATION -
PRODUCTION DIARY |
»September
2, 2002 - Filming still continues... Kabir tells
me, he doesn't play "the Hero" but the - villain
- in this film!
»September 17, 2002 - Scheduled release date is December 6, 2002.
»November 10, 2002 - 14 reels of the movie are now completed.
»November 13, 2002 - According to a report by Taran Adarsh, the
production hired a professional wrestler who is an imposing 6 ft. 8 inches (about
2.03m) tall and weighs 350 pounds to play bad guy Kabir
Bedi's bodyguard.
The wrestler called Mike Lorio has an important action scene in the movie.
More international wrestlers will be hired to shoot another stunt scene in Switzerland.
»December 15, 2002 - Scheduled release
date moved from January 24, 2003 to April 2003. |
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