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big-screen-movie |
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romance/thriller |
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India - May 21, 2010 - scheduled release date |
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| PRODUCTION |
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India |
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Filmkraft
Asal Masomi Public Relations (publicity)
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Rakesh
Roshan, Rajesh Shah (line producer) |
| screenplay |
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Anurag
Basu, Robin Bhatt, Akarsh Khurana, Rakesh Roshan (story) |
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MUSIC: Rajesh
Roshan
LYRICS: Neelesh Misra
SINGERS: Hrithik Roshan, Suzie Q.
Suzie Q. has vocally trained Hrithik Roshan for a Spanish song he
is singing with her in Kites, and also for an English song.
Suzie Q. on Hrithik Roshan:
- "It was a challenge for Hrithik to have to sing an English
song. And the great thing is that normally someone else would have
started with a pop song but Hrithik started with Jazz standards like
Michael Bublé. We did quite a few sessions and Hrithik has
a range of three octaves which not many can boast of. He has a great
voice and if he works hard, he can put a lot of singers to shame." |
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Suneet
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New Mexico,
Las Vegas, USA
Beverly Hills/Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA, USA (wedding scene)
Maldives (song sequences and underwater scenes, shot during 4
days)
Filmistan Studio, north-west suburb of Goregaon, Mumbai,
India |
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Anurag
Basu |
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| CAST |
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Hrithik
Roshan
Barbara Mori (Natasha, salsa dancer)
Kangana Ranaut (Gina, Hrithik's wife)
Nicholas Brown (Tony)
Luce Rains (bounty hunter)
Steven Michael Quezada (cop)
Dave Colon (Mexican policeman)
Ronald Hamilton (rail
yard worker)
Clark Sanchez (bounty hunter)
Anand Tiwari (Robin)
Yuri
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"The film, a romantic thriller, is about an Indian boy who
falls in love with a Mexican," explains
director Anurag Basu.
Hrithik
Roshan's character is together with an Indian
woman (Kangana Ranaut) but he also gets involved with a hot salsa
dancer
(Barbara Mori). However, they don't speak each other's language.
Like those kites which are immensely popular in India,
Hrithik moves carefree and nimble-footed between the
two women. But how long will it last?
Kites has a lot of dancing scenes, different
from the usual Bollywood
movie. Rumour has it that main lead Hrithik Roshan will be seen
in some steamy love scenes - making headlines even before shooting
of the movie has started. |
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BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
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June
18, 2008: Kabir in a major role, playing Bob, the owner of a
Las Vegas casino with
two adult children whose somewhat complicated love life is the
theme of this romantic comedy. Kabir says the film, with the
working title Kites, is complex and sensitive, and quite different
from the usual hackneyed Bollywood fare. |
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...Mark
Foster's The Kite Runner (2007). However, this movie has a totally
different story line. |
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
• Kabir
talked in detail about his major role in Kites during a BBC
radio interview on June 18, 2008.
• Kites
is a bi-lingual (Hindi and English) film.
• Kites has a lot of dancing scenes, different
from the usual Bollywood movie.
• Rumour has it that main lead
Hrithik Roshan will be seen in some steamy love scenes -
making headlines even before shooting of the movie has started.
In the past, Hrithik Roshan had only kissing scenes before
the camera.
• Cinematographer Bobby Singh left the project in September
2008. Ayananka Bose, known for his work in the Yash Raj
film Jhoom Baraabar Jhoom, replaced him.
• Controversial American singer Michael Jackson, accompanied
by his two bodyguards, visited Hrithik Roshan
in his caravan during shooting for Kites in Los Angeles, according
to Zee
News, December 2008.
• On January 28, 2009 Hrithik Roshan cut his wrist while
filming at Filmistan Studios, Goregaon, for an action scene
in which he had to smash a window pane
with
a
rod and
enter the room. Hrithik's sister Sunaina was on the set and
helped to get Hrithik Roshan to the new 700-bed Ambani Hospital
at Four Bungalows, Andheri, where the deep cut on his wrist
required 12 stitches. |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• Bárbara
Mori Ochoa (born 1978) is a Mexican model and telenovela actress
of Uruguayan-Japanese and Mexican heritage; her Japanese
ancestry
is from her
paternal grandfather.
• Kangana Ranaut (born 1987)
really wanted to become a doctor, but failed her admission
test at a Shimla
hospital.
• Kangana Ranaut moved to Delhi, worked as a model with the famous Elite
agency, and was a stage actress.
• Discovered by director Anurag Basu, Kangana
Ranaut won several accolades for her big-screen debut
in Basu's
film Gangster (2006).
• Kites producer Rakesh Roshan played
in his early career as an actor the part of
Seema's son in Kabir's drama Seema
(1971), a police inspector in Kabir's thriller Bullet
(1976, starring also Parveen Babi),
and produced and directed Kabir's hit movie
Khoon Bhari Maang (1988).
• Producer Rakesh Roshan is Hrithik Roshan's father.
• Anil Kapoor's daughter Sonam Kapoor was
originally meant to play the part of the flamboyant Salsa dancer, but reportedly
declined
because of some of the more
explicit scenes.
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