Saif wants to be a ‘classy gangster’
Phantom actor Saif Ali Khan says he wouldn’t mind essaying a ‘classy gangster’ on the big screen, but doesn’t see himself fit into an on screen version of real life mafia don Haji Mastan. When asked about films on gangs of Mumbai, and if he would like to do characters on the lines of Haji Mastan, Saif said, “Haji Mastan is a superb character... It is a very deadly character. But I can’t do the role of Haji Mastan bhai. That is something Ajay Devgn can do.”
Devgn had played a character inspired from Mastan in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai.Saif said that he wouldn’t prefer playing a gangster using tapori language, but something more sophisticated. “I’d love to be a classy gangster. It would be an interesting character to do such... I’ll have to do something different since people have already done this genre many times,” he said.
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Imtiaz Ali, who has taken a keen interest in promoting Bauddhayan Mukherji's feature debut Teenkahon, believes Bollywood will react positively to the critically acclaimed Bengali flick. “The whole world and Bollywood has taken cinema of the 1960s from Bengal very positively, and I feel that the Mumbai film industry is going to take the film in the same vein as well,” said Ali. Set for a September 11 release, the movie tries to capture the changing face of morality, the degeneration of values, the increasing pollution of the spoken language and the changing social fabric of Bengal through three stories spread over a hundred years from 1920.
Scott Eastwood to star in Overdrive
Actor Scott Eastwood will star in Overdrive, an action project which centres on two car thieves, brothers, who travel to the south of France for new opportunities and wind up in the cross hairs of the local crime boss.
The project is being produced by Taken director Pierre Morel and Christopher Tuffin.Antonio Negret, who helmed the Jim Caviezel action film Transit, is directing the film.
The project has been in development since 2011. At one point, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew Goode were attached to it, while another version saw Jamie Bell and Garrett Hedlund.
Scott, son of legendary actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood, is emerging into his own as an actor.