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According to wiki Siddharth’s movie Blood Brothers will be directed by…ahem..check it out

Blood Brothers is the a short 13 minute film on HIV-AIDS. The film is one from the sequence of short films made on HIV AIDS on behalf of the Bill Gates foundation. The movie is directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and written by Matthew Robbins.

Blood Brothers will feature Ayesha Takia and Siddharth of (Rang De Basanti fame) in lead roles. Vishal has managed to rope in Hollywood’s top cinematographer Guillermo Navarroto shoot his film. The movie recently premiered at Toronto Film Festival.

Chandan Arora

Editor:

Cheeni Kum (2007)
Karma, Confessions and Holi (2006)
Kehtaa Hai Dil Baar Baar (2002)
Road (2002)
Company (2002)
Filhaal (2002)
Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya (2001)
Raju Chacha (2000)
Jungle (2000)
Mast (1999)

Director:

Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh (2005)
Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon! (2003)

Siddharth

Actor:

Blood Brothers (2007/I)
Aata (2007)
Bommarillu (2006)
Rang De Basanti (2006)
Chukkallo Chandrudu (2006)
Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005)
Ayitha Ezhuthu (2004)
Boys (2003)

Playback Singer:

Aata (2007)
Bommarillu (2006)

Writer:

Chukkallo Chandrudu (2006) (screenplay) (story)

Assistant Director:

Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)

I have a little man-crush on Chandan Arora ever since i watched his Main Meri patni aur woh…and then i did an imdb on this bloke and found out that he was the editor for RGV’s Jungle and Company..two of my all time favs for editing work… i had always maintained and still believe, that if we ever will have a filmmaker who woudl come anywhere close to Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s style of filmmaking that will be him…and have been dying to see his next directorial venture and bhoooom…here comes the announcement…

He stumbled upon a story of struggle and success while researching for a docu-drama in a Malvani ghetto in Malad.

and it is called STRIKER

Chandan says:

“It’s not really a true story, it’s more of an account of real lives that we’ve fictionalised a little. We will be shooting in Malvani and other pockets in the city that are in the right time zone since Striker is set in the mid-’80s,”

So, is this going to be another Dharavi or Salaam Bombay? I personally dont think so. It also is a story revolved around the game of carroms..hence the name Striker, you peeps ;) And the carrom player is played by Siddharth, the multi-talented guy

Chandan explains:

“We were discussing another script and had even recorded a couple of songs when work ground to a halt. I hope to make the film some day. Meanwhile, Siddharth was excited about this script, so we started Striker last month,”

Where as the lead actress would be Padmapriya

Another good news is that, Chandan will be producing the movie himself..

“I think producing my own film gives me the freedom to make the kind of films I believe in. It gives me complete authority to make the film the way I do. So yes, after working with Ram Gopal Varma and UTV for my first two films, I am my own producer for the third film,”

But then why the need to go into economics of filmmaking asks reporter

Chandan:

Then only I can make the film that I want to…when I have complete autonomy. ‘Striker’ isn’t just a film about the game of carrom. Nor is it only about life in the slums. It takes into view the entire sub-culture and slum life in Mumbai from the early 1980s to around 1992.

Now, this has made me pretty excited, two very talented guys coming together to pull off something of this magnitude, hope is still left here…

Siddharth is perfect for the protagonist’s part. He speaks fluent Hindi, understands the slum character’s ability to stay honest in spite of crime and muck around him and is very good at the game of carrom. Others in the slum have half a dozen cases pending against them. The hero’s record remains untarnished,”

I believe, do you too? Am i the only person excited about this? Am i the only person who loves Chandan…raise your hands who feel likewise and those who dont, please speak up ;)

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