It is a reboot of the old genre but the story, SFX and treatment are out of the box.
Calling the Lynches (Jennifer and filmmaker and artist father David Lynch) different is a huge understatement. Which was the most difficult scene to shoot? The toughest part was dealing with the leeches crawling all over my body in freezing cold rain in the jungles of Kerala.
Pages have been written on Amitabh Bachchan’s make-up ordeal during the shooting of Paa, yours couldn’t have been any easier. It was tough. It took over four hours for the make-up to be applied. I couldn't drink anything the whole day and was dehydrated as I was wearing a complete body suit and couldn't even visit the loo.
Hats off to Big B for his stupendous effort. I'm looking forward to seeing Paa soon. There was talk recently that you brother, Vikram, had thrown a tantrum on the sets during a shoot in Mumbai over a skimpy, skin-coloured bikini you were wearing.
I'm extremely close to my brother but we never seem to agree when it comes to my raw vegan diet and my wardrobe. Reportedly, you don’t have too many lines in the film and it is the hiss sound that gave the film its title. Well, snakes hiss more than they talk, don’t they?
How long did it take to develop the perfect hiss? I did my best but the sound designers in LA will have to help out a bit now. Sridevi’s Nagin had a sequel, Nagina. Will you also be carrying the story forward? Well, it’s the era of sequels, so of course. Hollywood is already jumping at the idea.
‘It’s the first time he’s dedicated a song to someone other than his mother’ At his Los Angeles concert last year, Yanni Voices, the composer dedicated a song, 'Changes…’ to Mallika. Apparently, the actress had run into Yanni and Oscar and Grammy winner Ric Wake at an upscale LA restaurant, The Ivy.
And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that resulted in the composer picking up the mike and telling his 7,000-odd fans, “This song is for Mallika Sherawat. One of a kind.” On the giant video screen behind, images of Yanni’s concert in India at the Taj Mahal played. Maan gaye Mumtaz-e-Azam!
Quizzed on how it feels to be Yanni’s ‘It Girl’ the actress says, “It was really nice of him to do that. It was the first time he ever dedicated a song to someone other than his mother. Yanni is a gem of a person.” Buzz is that Yanni has invited her to accompany him when he tours India. She agrees, “I will always be there for him when he tours my country.”
‘America is less judgmental' While Bollywood often dismissed you as a bimbette who was all body, Hollywood seems to have connected with your soul and sensibilities. Is it goodbye to Hindi films then?
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