An All-Star Cast Causes Havoc in Double Dhamaal
The new Bollywood comedy DOUBLE DHAMAAL opens in theaters worldwide on June 24, 2011 featuring an all-star cast including Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Jaaved Jaaferi, Riteish Deshmukh, Ashish Chowdhry, Mallika Sherawat, and Kangna Ranaut.
The story focuses on four friends - Adi, Roy, Manav and Boman - who decide to make money by investing in buildings. The highest buildings they find are the "KBC" building, and decide to hire an investor to bid for it. They find an investor, who is later kidnapped by the owner of the building, Kabir. When Kabir finds out that the four friends are coming to rescue the investor, he decides to get his two girlfriends, Kiya and Kamini to play the 'love game' with Adi and Roy. The four really fall in love, and create an enemy in Kabir. The two couples, and the two disabled friends, all six together decide to get back on Kabir in the most hilarious and mayhem-ic ways they can think of. Double your love for them in, Double Dhamaal
The new retro widow: Kangna
Kangna Ranaut copies Jaya Bachchan's Sholay look for 'Double Dhamaal'. The retro Bollywood widow is all set to come back in Indra Kumar's next. Double Dhamaal sees Kangna Ranaut play a character inspired by Jaya Bachchan's role in Sholay. Says a source from sets, "The quintessential widow from Sholay is back with Kangana in DD."
Inspired by Sholay's iconic vidhwaah (widow), played by Jaya Bachchan, the director has styled KR in a similar look for one of the scenes in the film. Instead of wearing normal clothes required for the scene, the director told the stylists to give Kangana an old white saree, just like the ones widows in old films wore.
Indra Kumar confirms, "It is a spoof, a funny scene all in good humor. We are not making fun of or passing derogatory remarks on Jayaji and Sholay. It's just that in earlier times all widows were stereotyped. They wore white sarees and would only cook gajar ka halwa and alu parathas for their mothers. The particular scene, with all the other actors, is a spoof where she is in a widow's garb with minimal make-up. In the film, she plays a modern, smart and sexy young secretary to Sanjay Dutt."
Ashish dons Planet Of The Apes costume for Dhamaal sequel
His Parsi character, Boman, in Dhamaal was a laugh riot. And now Ashish Chowdhry is returning in the sequel with half-a-dozen getups. “From a girl to a gorilla, I’ve done it all in Double Dhamaal,” sighs the actor, who’s also passed himself off as an African, a ‘tapori’ goon and a bathroom cleaner.
Interestingly, his gorilla outfit in the comic caper has a Hollywood connection: “On the plus side I got a chance to slip into a Planet Of The Apes costume. On the downside, it stank to high heaven,” he says wrinkling his nose in disgust. “ It can’t be dry-cleaned. I don’t know how many others got into it and sweated buckets inside it.”
It was a damp and chilly day when they shot the scene in Hong Kong, but the actor felt he was inside an oven. “They had to keep me hydrated so I didn’t pass out,” he says, shuddering at the memory.
Ashish is making a comeback to the big screen after a two-year self-imposed break following a personal tragedy that hit his family on 26/11. “Induji (director Indra Kumar) urged me to accept his offer, promising that it would bring me back into the spotlight with a vengeance,” he says. “I accepted it because the industry has stood by me in difficult times. And given the camaraderie I share with the boys, Sanju sir (Sanjay Dutt), Riteish (Deshmukh), Arshad (Warsi) and Javed (Jaffri), I was confident Double Dhamaal would be a great comeback movie for me.”
The story focuses on four friends - Adi, Roy, Manav and Boman - who decide to make money by investing in buildings. The highest buildings they find are the "KBC" building, and decide to hire an investor to bid for it. They find an investor, who is later kidnapped by the owner of the building, Kabir. When Kabir finds out that the four friends are coming to rescue the investor, he decides to get his two girlfriends, Kiya and Kamini to play the 'love game' with Adi and Roy. The four really fall in love, and create an enemy in Kabir. The two couples, and the two disabled friends, all six together decide to get back on Kabir in the most hilarious and mayhem-ic ways they can think of. Double your love for them in, Double Dhamaal
The new retro widow: Kangna
Kangna Ranaut copies Jaya Bachchan's Sholay look for 'Double Dhamaal'. The retro Bollywood widow is all set to come back in Indra Kumar's next. Double Dhamaal sees Kangna Ranaut play a character inspired by Jaya Bachchan's role in Sholay. Says a source from sets, "The quintessential widow from Sholay is back with Kangana in DD."
Inspired by Sholay's iconic vidhwaah (widow), played by Jaya Bachchan, the director has styled KR in a similar look for one of the scenes in the film. Instead of wearing normal clothes required for the scene, the director told the stylists to give Kangana an old white saree, just like the ones widows in old films wore.
Indra Kumar confirms, "It is a spoof, a funny scene all in good humor. We are not making fun of or passing derogatory remarks on Jayaji and Sholay. It's just that in earlier times all widows were stereotyped. They wore white sarees and would only cook gajar ka halwa and alu parathas for their mothers. The particular scene, with all the other actors, is a spoof where she is in a widow's garb with minimal make-up. In the film, she plays a modern, smart and sexy young secretary to Sanjay Dutt."
Ashish dons Planet Of The Apes costume for Dhamaal sequel
His Parsi character, Boman, in Dhamaal was a laugh riot. And now Ashish Chowdhry is returning in the sequel with half-a-dozen getups. “From a girl to a gorilla, I’ve done it all in Double Dhamaal,” sighs the actor, who’s also passed himself off as an African, a ‘tapori’ goon and a bathroom cleaner.
Interestingly, his gorilla outfit in the comic caper has a Hollywood connection: “On the plus side I got a chance to slip into a Planet Of The Apes costume. On the downside, it stank to high heaven,” he says wrinkling his nose in disgust. “ It can’t be dry-cleaned. I don’t know how many others got into it and sweated buckets inside it.”
It was a damp and chilly day when they shot the scene in Hong Kong, but the actor felt he was inside an oven. “They had to keep me hydrated so I didn’t pass out,” he says, shuddering at the memory.
Ashish is making a comeback to the big screen after a two-year self-imposed break following a personal tragedy that hit his family on 26/11. “Induji (director Indra Kumar) urged me to accept his offer, promising that it would bring me back into the spotlight with a vengeance,” he says. “I accepted it because the industry has stood by me in difficult times. And given the camaraderie I share with the boys, Sanju sir (Sanjay Dutt), Riteish (Deshmukh), Arshad (Warsi) and Javed (Jaffri), I was confident Double Dhamaal would be a great comeback movie for me.”