Kai Po Che!
Television actor Sushant Singh Rajput seems to have benefitted from the fallout between Farhan Akhtar and filmmaker Abhishek Kapoor. Farhan and Abhishek worked together for their 2008 release, Rock On!!,
but if rumours are to be believed, Abhishek waited for Farhan's dates
for his next, Kai Po Che! for two years, after which the filmmaker had to rope in an all new cast and production house.
The episode worked in Sushant's favour because he auditioned for the
role originally meant for Farhan and immediately bagged it. For this
film, he even let go of offers from big banners, says a source. The
insider confirms, "He had to sign a three-film contract with the current
production house. This role really excited him." The film, based on
Chetan Bhagat's novel Three Mistakes of my Life, stars Sushant, Amit Sadh and Raj Kumar Yadav (of Ragini MMS fame)
along with Amrita Puri (of Blood Money). The cast and crew have wrapped
up their schedule in Ahmedabad and are headed to Hyderabad.
Interestingly, they shot at Ahmedabad's Sabarmati grounds where Daniel
Craig's latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, was scheduled to be shot but they couldn't secure permission. "The
ground is very sacred as it is related to Mahatma Gandhi. We feel that
this is the reason why the Bond team was denied permission to shoot
there," says a source from the film unit. The shooting of KPC
was stalled for a while in Ahmedabad because of the extreme heat.
Incidentally, both Sushant and Amit had to be hospitalised and the
shooting resumed only after the duo was fit to face the camera again.
The scenes were shot at real locations without any sets being created. One of Amit's close friends
reveals that when Amit bagged this role, he was just recovering from
his break-up with Neeru Bajwa. "But he is a happy man now. He had spent
years to build Neeru's career and now that she has broken up with him,
he wants to concentrate on his career."
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