DREAMS OF INCEPTION
Even as he gives finishing touches to Saat Khoon Maaf, his latest film starring Priyanka Chopra that's scheduled for an early 2011 release, filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj has already moved on to his next. Saif Ali Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Vidya Balan are rumoured to have been signed by the Kaminey director for his next, a thriller titled Dreams.
The film, whose theme involves matters of the subconscious mind, may sound suspiciously similar to Christopher Nolan's celebrated blockbuster Inception, but Vishal says he wrote his film years ago and has been trying to make it since. Anurag Kashyap, a close friend of Bhardwaj, vouches for this. He suspects critics may jump on the filmmaker with accusations of plagiarism, but insists Bhardwaj had narrated the script of Dreams to him years ago.
The irony that he's finally found a producer only after it became clear the audience does have an appetite for mature, complex films likeInception, about the mind and its workings, isn't lost on Bhardwaj. And despite the fact that Dreams may share a common premise with Nolan's, the plot of his film is entirely original, Bhardwaj has said.
Industry sources say the filmmaker isn't as concerned about comparisons to Inception as he is about the parallels that may be drawn with director Reema Kagti's forthcoming film. Apparently Bhardwaj is in a hurry to release his film before Kagti's, which is also a thriller, and stars one male star
opposite two female leads—Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee. But Kagti's film has nothing to do with dreams!
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