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Wrote Singham 2 for Bebo
By Ankur Pathak, Mumbai Mirror | Feb 8, 2014, 02.24 AM IST
By Ankur Pathak, Mumbai Mirror | Feb 8, 2014, 02.24 AM IST
Reveals Rohit Shetty about his ambitious sequel and says his biggest fear is empty theatres.
Daredevilry is second nature for Rohit Shetty who now can claim to be the inhouse Bollywood expert on flying cars and explosions. Rohit who is the host of an new season of the reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi. But what's also keeping him preoccupied is his mega I- Day stint, Singham 2, which teams him up with buddies Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor.
"Bebo called one day and admitted she was missing working with Ajay and me. She wondered if I had anything for her," he reminisces. That phone call prompted Rohit to start scripting Singham 2. "I specially authored a nice character for Bebo, something I usually don't do," he reveals, adding that the sequel is set in Mumbai and will have more drama, comedy and action.
High-risk stunts have been a part of the drill for him since his debut feature. He still remembers a scene in Zameen in which Ajay had to jump on the bonnet of a car before it blows up. "In those days there weren't fancy CGI-VFX and safety was a concern. I was sweating during the shoot, and so relieved when we pulled it off. Unfortunately the film didn't do too well," he sighs.
But, today Rohit is perhaps the most successful commercial filmmaker in Bollywood who is not burdened by the weight of expectations. "I'm the biggest champion of positive thinking and believe that if you are convinced about your abilities, success will come to you," he asserts.
That's the reason he isn't stressed about his TV debut, confident that he'll learn on the job. However, he hasn't picked up any tricks from his predecessors, Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra, arguing that the format is so different that there was no way he could've emulated them.
About his own fears, he says that as a kid they revolved around school. "I was so petrified of the teachers and the books that I dropped out before I was 16," he admits. And what's his biggest fear now that he doesn't have to stand in the assembly line? "Empty theatres," he retorts.
Daredevilry is second nature for Rohit Shetty who now can claim to be the inhouse Bollywood expert on flying cars and explosions. Rohit who is the host of an new season of the reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi. But what's also keeping him preoccupied is his mega I- Day stint, Singham 2, which teams him up with buddies Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor.
"Bebo called one day and admitted she was missing working with Ajay and me. She wondered if I had anything for her," he reminisces. That phone call prompted Rohit to start scripting Singham 2. "I specially authored a nice character for Bebo, something I usually don't do," he reveals, adding that the sequel is set in Mumbai and will have more drama, comedy and action.
High-risk stunts have been a part of the drill for him since his debut feature. He still remembers a scene in Zameen in which Ajay had to jump on the bonnet of a car before it blows up. "In those days there weren't fancy CGI-VFX and safety was a concern. I was sweating during the shoot, and so relieved when we pulled it off. Unfortunately the film didn't do too well," he sighs.
But, today Rohit is perhaps the most successful commercial filmmaker in Bollywood who is not burdened by the weight of expectations. "I'm the biggest champion of positive thinking and believe that if you are convinced about your abilities, success will come to you," he asserts.
That's the reason he isn't stressed about his TV debut, confident that he'll learn on the job. However, he hasn't picked up any tricks from his predecessors, Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra, arguing that the format is so different that there was no way he could've emulated them.
About his own fears, he says that as a kid they revolved around school. "I was so petrified of the teachers and the books that I dropped out before I was 16," he admits. And what's his biggest fear now that he doesn't have to stand in the assembly line? "Empty theatres," he retorts.
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