Headline: Bollywood, Hollywood Bloom for 'Marigold'
Source: Reuters. August 16, 2002 02:41 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/home.jhtml?action=check&_requestid=103180
By Cathy Dunkley
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Indian actor Salman Khan will star in "Marigold," a
musical romantic comedy written and to be directed early next year by U.S.
filmmaker Willard Carroll ("Playing by Heart").
The picture, budgeted at under $10 million, will see Khan co-star opposite
an as-yet-uncast U.S. actress. Dubbed as a Bollywood-Hollywood
collaboration, the project will be shot in both English and Hindi. Filming
will take place in Mumbai and the Indian states of Goa and Rajasthan.
"Marigold," which is being touted as the first Hindi-language film made by
a U.S. director, is the story of a demanding B-movie actress stranded in
India when her latest fly-by-night film is suddenly canceled. Penniless and
unable to return home, the desperate actress accepts a role in a gaudy
Bollywood production even though she is a terrible dancer. Khan will play
her dance instructor Prem.
"The movie-within-a-movie format enables us to do the Bollywood sequences
for real and at full strength while still preserving the narrative
structure of a mainstream Hollywood entertainment," Carroll said.
Carroll added that he also incorporated many of Khan's suggestions into the
final version of the screenplay to add details to the Bollywood sequences
and to clarify certain aspects of Indian family life and culture.
"In the past, U.S. productions shooting in India have used the country as
an exotic backdrop and a source of inexpensive manpower," said Sidharth
Jain, VP of producer Hyperion Pictures India. "This project is different.
It's a true co-production; Indians working side by side with Americans. It
will be a seamless mixture of what each industry does best."
Khan made his breakthrough in Indian cinema in Sooraj Barjatya's "Maine
pyar kiya" (I Have Loved). In subsequent films like the hit "Hum dil de
chuke sanam" (I Have Given My Heart to You), the actor has been closely
associated with the family-values genre of tuneful romance and celebrations
of the traditional Indian joint family that defined mainstream Hindi cinema
in the 1990s.
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