Kambakht Ishq brings Sylvester Stallone to india

Kambakht Ishq brings Sylvester Stallone to india
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 14:04 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Sylvester Stallone and his producer for Kambakht Ishq have hit it off so well that Sajid Nadiadwala has convinced the Rambo-Rocky star to attend the Mumbai premiere this summer.

Shares Sajid, "Yes, Stallone will be coming to Mumbai for the premiere. In fact we've hit it off so well that I've convinced him for more collaborations with us. However it's too premature to talk about any concrete plans between the two of us. He did give me a book to read. But that doesn't mean I'm making a movie out of it, not yet."

What Sajid is doing now is to turn Kambakht Ishq into an English-language film. And though Akshay Kumar is all set to finally go international with his first English-language film, he won't be heard speaking in his own voice.

"I'll get dubbing artistes from outside India to dub for everyone, excluding Sylvester Stallone. Akshay certainly can't make himself comprehensible to American audiences in his own voice," trails off producer Sajid Nadiadwala currently in Vicenze, a quaint town between Milan and Venice where the last portion of Kambhakt Ishq is being shot with Kareena, Akshay Kumar, Aftab Shivdasani and Amrita Arora.

Sajid has huge plans for Kambkaht Ishq including an international English version to be released at the same time with the Hindi version in April-May 2009.

"It'll be a much shorter version of the original. While the Hindi version will be around 130 minutes the English version will be 90-100 minutes long...and no song."

To knock off the elaborate Hindi song sequences for the English version, Sajid is getting a creative musical-director from Hollywood as musical consultant.

"We've zeroed in on three guys who specialize in editing Hollywood musicals including the gentleman who did The Wedding Singer. I'll hire one of them to put together the English version of Kambhakt Ishq. I don't want it to be seen as a dubbed Bollywood film. I want it to be on a par with the American releases, just as slick."

This where the presence of Stallone, Denise Richards and Entourage star Holy Valencia would help.

Says Sajid, "These stars would help bring in the American audience and establish a connect with the film. In India most audiences won't care about Stallone and other Hollywood stars. They'll just go to watch Akshay."

Sajid is hoping Kambakht Ishq would be the international launch of Akshay Kumar's career.

"He has it in him. And we've worked really hard to give Kambakht an international look and feel. My film has gone way above-budget. I don't think I'll ever be able to make a film so expensive. The ticket fare to Europe alone costs what was the entire budget of my first production."
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