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Fox studio acquires worldwide rights of Bollywood film ‘My Name Is Khan’ which tackles attitudes towards Muslims after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US

08/09/2009 in Uncategorized

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The upcoming movie, starring leading Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan and directed by Karan Johar, is due for release in early 2010. The film is set against the 9/11 terror attacks and its impact on an Indian Muslim living in the United States. The film stars popular Bollywood actress, Kajol in the main female lead. Khan essays the character of Rizwan Khan who suffers from Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that affects social interaction abilities.

Fox STAR Studios, the distribution company behind Slumdog Millionaire is hoping to replicate the success of the Oscar-winning film around the world with a major new Bollywood production, it said yesterday.

Fox STAR Studios signed a joint venture between US studio 20th Century Fox and Rupert Murdoch‘s STAR media and entertainment group, is to finance and market My Name Is Khan in a tie-up reportedly worth about $21 million.

Vijay Singh, the chief executive of Fox STAR Studios, told a news conference in Mumbai: “This is the kind of story that will appeal across the world and also to Islamic countries because of the subject of the film.”

The president of Fox International Productions, Sanford Panitch, added: “This is just the beginning of a relationship for this kind of collaboration.

“This is the first mainstream Bollywood film that we will be distributing worldwide. This is an ongoing commitment to Bollywood from our side.”

Fox STAR Studios was created in September last year, with the aim of producing Asian-language films for worldwide distribution, initially in India and then in China and across southeast Asia.

The tie-up is a reflection of Bollywood’s increasingly corporate nature and its search for a wider audience

My Name is Khan is currently being shot in San francisco USA, United States of America.
Last week, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol joined Karan Johar in San Francisco for nearly two months of non-stop shooting for My Name Is Khan. It is the longest-ever shooting stint away from home for Kajol and especially tough on her husband who is unlikely to visit her in the US during the long shooting.

Says a source, “Ajay is not the kind of guy who can hang around his partner’s sets. If it was another unit, perhaps Ajay would’ve considered visiting his wife, but not Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan. Though outwardly, Ajay is normal with them, there’s actually no love lost between him and the Khan-Johar team. He would never be seen anywhere near their shooting even if it means being away from his wife and daughter for months.”

Staying away from his daughter for almost two months is especially hard on Ajay. Considering the long absence from Mumbai, earlier this week Kajol flew down with her daughter to join her husband in Goa where he’s shooting. She flies to San Francisco with Shah Rukh on Thursday, for one of the toughest shooting schedules ever.

Says a source, “With the swine flu fear in the west, Karan Johar is more tensed about this schedule in the US than ever before. In fact, fearing a fan invasion, Karan didn’t want it to be known that he was shooting in San Francisco. Also, the sensitive theme (post-terrorism Islamic threat) automatically makes the project suspicion in the minds of the American authorities. Karan wants to avoid all the hassles he went through in his last American schedule when some members of his cast were denied visas, then he was denied permission to shoot in religiously sensitive places in America and finally Karan was pulled up for default of payments. Karan wants to keep it completely low profile.”

However, with Kajol and Shah Rukh around, can any shooting be low profile?

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