No, we neither. But Akshay Kumar does.
Apparently, Khiladi Kumar was so
impressed with Pandit's performance in
Shaitan that he called up the young actor
to audition for a role in Boss and cast him
in it opposite Aditi Rao Hydari. Boss, due an October release, is
being directed by
Anthony D'Souza, whose debut film Blue
was a multi-crore disaster. The film also
stars Mithun Chakraborty and Danny
Denzongpa.
Here we quote from the film's PR
machine: "A source close to the team
said, Akshay absolutely enjoyed seeing
Shiv's performance onscreen in Shaitan
and he thought that he would perfectly fit
the character in Boss. In fact, after the audition, Akshay met Shiv in
person and
told him about his performance and
offered him a three-film deal."
Since the quote is coming from the film's
promotional team, why do they quote 'a
source close to the team' and not, say,
Kumar himself, or D'Souza even?
Mystifying to say the least, but such are
the workings of Bollyland.
Anyhow, hearty congratulations to Pandit
on his three-film deal and let's hope that
he makes it big in Bollywood in years to
come. Apart from Shaitan, his only
release has been the Tamil film Leelai,
where he was impressive, but was overshadowed by the comedian
Santhanam.
Speaking of Santhanam, he is the only
bright spark in the decibel fest that is
Singam 2. Suriya roars, the soundtrack
blares and for Santhanam to make a
mark in what is purely a hero vehicle
takes some doing. Spare a thought for Vivek, the comedian whose throne
Santhanam usurped. He's also present
and accounted for in Singam 2, but
doesn't leave much of an impression. His
time in Tamil cinema seems done.
Wonder who Santhanam's replacement will eventually be, but as for now, there
doesn't seem to be a contender in sight.
Meanwhile, Santhanam is busy with the
Tamil remake of SS Rajamouli's Telugu
superhit Maryada Ramanna, which was
inspired from Buster Keaton's 1923 film
Our Hospitality and was remade in
Kannada as Maryade Ramanna, in Bengali as Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re and in
Bollywood as Son of Sardaar. The Tamil
remake, being directed by Srinath is titled
Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham and will
have music by Anirudh Ravichander of
Kolaveri di fame.
While in Tamil Nadu, let's take a look at
the biggest stars there. There is no news
on the much delayed Kochadaiyaan,
starring a motion captured Rajinikanth
and Deepika Padukone. There's no news of even a trailer, which was supposed to
be released on the sidelines of the Cannes
film festival but did not materialise.
Hardcore Superstar fans are getting
worried.
And the proposed August 15 release date
for Vishwaroopam 2 is not confirmed yet. Kamal Haasan released a poster for it
at some minor Bollywood event that
happened in Macau over the weekend, so there is hope yet. Plus, there
is concrete
news about his film after that. It's going
to be an untitled venture produced by
Linguswamy's Thirupathy Brothers
production company and will be directed
by Ramesh Aravind. Kamal had acted in Aravind's Kannada remake of hit Tamil
film Sathi Leelavathi. The film will be a
comedy. There is however no news of
Kamal's much ballyhooed Hollywood
debut to be produced byLord of the Rings producer Barrie Osborne.
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