The Invaders will be made completely on corporate funds. There will be no cash transaction at any stage of the production. Earlier, it was scheduled for February, but it was ruled out because the monsoon would disrupt the shooting, which meant a waste of $3.5 million. Our pre-production will start at the end of May or the beginning of June. We have been lyin g low because we do not want to give away details of the script right now. We have already spent Rs 6.5 crores and finalised all the locations. I am spending Rs 3 lakh to Rs 4 lakh on the project every day. We expect him to make a grand return with Invaders. He has made a war film - The Killing Fields -and he has made a film in India, City Of Joy. Roland was the right choice for The Invaders because he was qualified on many levels. He was one of the names on my Top 10 list. Was Roland Joffe your first choice as director? We want to take the subject to every corner of the world. Then I went to Hollywood because The Invaders had to be done on an epic scale. My research on the subject took me to London, where I was granted a fellowship for five years. I felt it had the potential of a large-scale, Hollywood-style period epic like Braveheart, The Patriot and Gladiator. My two earlier productions were small Marathi films - Sarkarnama and Lekroo - which were big successes.Ībout six years ago, during the course of my studies, I stumbled on the subject of The Invaders. I am too small a person to even dream about such a huge project. Vivek is a solid blend of action and emotion. We had three meetings with him in London and in Mumbai.įinally, though, Vivek was the best choice since the character needed to be 22 years old. The main conflict is between a British and an Indian soldier, played by Brendan and Vivek. Every actor, however big, will have to attend a two-week workshop with Roland and his team. We have also signed Vivek Oberoi and zeroed in on Aishwarya Rai though we have not yet signed her.
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He is a huge star and we are paying him his full market price. We have just sealed the deal with Brendan Fraser of The Mummy and George Of The Jungle. We have also swung the US pre-sales of the film and have finalised the international cast. My bankers opened the doors to Hollywood for me. The film has already been funded over a year ago through a Los Angeles-based bank. No one had bothered to verify with me. I have been abroad organising resources for the film. Very much so. I returned from London recently and was aghast when I was shown write-ups suggesting The Invaders had been shelved. The ambitious epic is all set to roll in a couple of months, he tells Subhash K Jha: Rumours insist the project had been shelved for lack of funds. His $42 million project The Invaders - which stars Vivek Oberoi and possibly Aishwarya Rai and will be directed by Roland Joffe - has been in the eye of a controversy ever since it was announced two months ago. 'I was aghast at reports saying The Invaders had been shelved'Ījey Jhankar is a man with a dream.
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