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Zoran009
PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 5:42 pm 
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Finally, some body showed some COURAGE to RAISE their STATURES!!

***What can u expect from HEJDAS like YASH JOHARI!! just to stay with MUSH that suits his kinda DARMIYANA STATURE!!At least we found a MARD CHPRA!!

http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/aug/21chopra.htm

'I have always intellectually dwarfed myself'
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's next project is a 'thriller of the mind'



Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra is excited about his latest venture, an English supernatural thriller Chess, with a tagline that goes '2 players, only 1 is alive'.

The film has two players are engaged in a tense game of chess. One tries to decipher the story of the other's death through the moves in the game. By the end of the game, and the film, the player is changed forever.



Chopra's principal scriptwriters are Suketu Mehta and Vikram Chandra. The latter is one of India's better-known writers and a frequent collaborator on Chopra's projects. Chopra is also married to Chandra's sister, India Today special correspondent Anupama Chopra.

Chess has been in the works for some 14 years, when Chopra wrote the first draft of the film's script. Over the intervening years and other projects, he decided Chess could not be made in Hindi. "I realised I had to make this film for a world audience," he told rediff.com. "I have always intellectually dwarfed myself in order to communicate to a large (Indian) audience, which I am not going to do with Chess."


The film is a landmark project for Chopra, a director who has been critically acclaimed for bringing a new grittiness to Indian cinema. He plans to make the film in the United States for an international audience. There will be virtually nothing Indian about the film, other than its director and the presence of actor Amitabh Bachchan.

"For me, Chess is really the liberation of my cinematic soul," said Chopra. A short silence follows, and then he laughs: "Not a bad quote, huh?"

When seen in the context of Bollywood, Chess is an unusual project. "Apart from one character whose grandfather was Indian, Chess is a totally American project," he says. "It will probably have only one Indian actor. I will make it so there will be an Indian sensibility, but it is for a world audience."

Chopra has also considered making it an independent project. He has raised about $3 million for the film. He says if he can raise another $7 million he may go independent. But considering that Columbia Tristar has "already shown interest" it may become a larger, more ambitious film.

"As hopes would go there is a role I'm hoping to get either Paul Newman or Dustin Hoffman to play," he says. So far the only actor who has committed to the project is Bachchan.



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Now this is a film to for sure keep an eye out for.

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By the end of the game, and the film, the player is changed forever.


Hmmm... I remember VVC mentioning this film Chess in the zulm one and only Q & A in April 2001 - and reading back I think its contains a spoiler :oo:

So read it at your own peril (second to last question) :p

http://www.zulm.net/modules....sid=185

(or maybe not - reading too much into it :stupid: )

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CHESS will be played in ENGLISH :baaa: :cool: :;): With HINDI SUB TITLES??? ???

Vidhu Vinod Chopra will soon launch an English film Chess with Amitabh Bachchan playing the protagonist. Chess is a supernatural thriller, the script of which is written by Chopra's brohter-in-law Vikram Chandra and good friend Suketu Mehta. Chess has been in the working for 14 long years. After reading the script Vinod Chopra concluded that it would be better if the film were made in English than Hindi.



http://www.b4utv.com/movies/newsbreak/0829vinod.html
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Big B plays 'Chess'

29th Aug 2002 10.42 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau

Rumors are abuzz that Big B has been approached by director Vidhu Vinod Chopra to essay a very unusual role in his English supernatural thriller 'Chess'.

From whatever little information is forthcoming it is known that "Chess" is a supernatural thriller about a manipulative man (Amitabh Bachchan) who uses people to achieve his selfish goals. Metaphorically speaking, he is a man who plays 'chess' with others, only to find out in the end that he himself was a pawn in the game.

The film has the tagline "Two players, one is alive, the other is not".

The script of 'Chess' has been the result of the 14 long years of hardwork by Vidhu's brother-in-law, Vikram Chandra, and good friend Suketu Mehta.

Vinod Chopra had earlier wanted to make 'Chess' in Hindi and English but somewhere down the line realized that the film could not be made in Hindi. Now he has decided to make the film in English with Hollywood cast.

He is also believed to have finalized the locations in US to shoot the film.


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aby2000 wrote:
Vinod Chopra had earlier wanted to make 'Chess' in Hindi and English but somewhere down the line realized that the film could not be made in Hindi. Now he has decided to make the film in English with Hollywood cast.

Why couldn't he make it in Hindi? Not commercial enough?
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