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Saturday, 16th Aug 2014, 7:00 PM IST Ajay Devgn starrer ‘Singham Returns’ is not the solo release this Friday. Suriya starrer ‘Anjaan’, which is a Tamil movie with majority dialogues in Hindi, has over 100 screens in Maharashtra.Cleverly, ‘Anjaan’ is being released by UTV as a professed blockbuster.
Interestingly, both Ajay and Suriya played ‘Singham’ in their films of the same title.
Tamil superstar Suriya's new film ‘Anjaan’ includes Bollywood actors like Manoj Bajpayee, Vidyut Jammwal, Chetan Hansraj and Chitrangada Singh.
Explaining the lingual dichotomy of ‘Anjaan’, the film's cinematographer Santosh Sivan said, "It's a Mumbai-based subject and a large part of the dialogues are in Hindi. These haven't been dubbed into Tamil, although it's a Tamil film. ‘Anjaan’ is being released as a mainstream film with nearly 1400 screens. Of these nearly a 100 screens are in Maharashtra."
Thus, it’s obvious that UTV is not looking at ‘Anjaan’ as a regional film.
Emphasizes Santosh, "It is not a regional film. Its characters are Mumbai-based. It's a very different kind of modern gangster film. The characters speak in Hindi.And there is an overlapping voiceover in Tamil for Suriya's core fan-base, so that the flavour of Hindi language spoken by the characters is not lost in translation."
Also, to ensure no piracy, UTV would be releasing only digital and no hard print of ‘Anjaan’ anywhere in the world.
Does all this add up as threat for ‘Singham Returns’, the box office collection of the film will speak up for itself. |