Bollywood’s First Sci-Fi
Would Koi Mil Gaya be considered a Science Fiction? If not then get ready. Tighten your seat belts. Brace yourself. For Mr. Harry Baweja who for the last 15 Years, yes FIFTEEN years, has been successfully making one trash after another, is now all set to make Bollywood’s first Science Fiction movie. And before you spill your early morning coffee over your keyboard on reading this… I would humbly request you to give Baweja-jee a chance.
The “exciting” project will be called, hold your breath… LOVE STORY 2050 [link]. Ok now you can breathe in again. Yes now hero-heroine instead of singing on lush green mountain tops will now be singing about love sitting on top of their spaceship, with or without an astronaut suit, (depends on how much liberties Bawaje-jee wants to take), or heroine’s silver suit will be made to look like a saree, sorry, and when she runs on the beautiful brown soil of Mars with a background music of AAAAASHIQ BANAYAAAA AASHIIIIIIIIQ BANNNAAAYAAA, MARS PE…. her pallu floats in the wind, sorry, Mars dust storm, the suited booted (astronaut suit not the black tie) hero running behind her to catch her astronautic saree pallu, wrapping it over her head…
Saajan chale Jupiterlal… or perhaps Mera Pati sirf Pluto ka hain…
Hero’s baap going Yeh hamaari khaandaan ki parampaara ke khilaaf hai… We from Jupiter are of the higher caste and do not fall in love with the lower caste people of Neptune…
Heroine tear eyed asking her hero: What do we do? This universe is against us?
Hero: Let’s run away to a far off planet in Pelo Galaxy [Pelo pronounced as "Pale"+"O"...good! Now say that quicker...good... faster... good... you get the point of this exercise, if you are in anyway exposed to the street slang of Bombay to Delhi]…
Hum tum ek spaceship mein band ho aur chaabi kho jaye
And the movie will be the launching pad of Baweja-jee’s son Harman Baweja. Before you comment that Bollywood can’t handle such subjects which require deep research and study, here’s Baweja-jee squashing all those negative opinions about to spring in your mind…
Let’s not forget that it is a sci-fi film that entails intensive research and paper work. It took me 2.5 years of paper work and planning to get the final draft of the film ready. In the intervening period, I made several visits to all the leading studios in Hollywood to get a feel about the kind of inputs that went into the making of a good sci-fi film. A film of this magnitude cannot go on the floor without a detailed action plan. It also meant finding out and visualizing the lifestyles of people living in a futuristic age…
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Intense research has gone into the financial implications of making such a grand movie. Here’s a sneak peek at the financial forecasting report on LOVE STORY 2050 which has Baweja-jee mentioning…
I don’t consider LOVE STORY 2050 a risky venture at all. On the contrary, I consider a futuristic film an ideal launch pad for my son. How long can you continue to watch mushy romances? Someone had to take the initiative and I didn’t see any reason why I shouldn’t. Besides, if you look at the top 20 hit films released in the US over the past many years, 18 of them have been sci-fi ventures except for a handful few films like FOREST GUMPP and TITANIC. Moreover experimentation has now become my forte…
In researching this great futuristic story, oz thinks Baweja got stuck in a time-warp.
handful few films like FOREST GUMPP and TITANIC???
Handful? What fucking DVD Library does Baweja-jee have the membership of? It’s time to switch his source for Englissss movies to one which carries a more recent collection of Hollywood.
It’s great to see Baweja-jee moving to make a Sci-Fi. But one small thingy jee… even sci-fi movies need a good strong script and story… Somehow that topic again has conviniently been missed, forgotton and not talked about in any of Baweja-jee’s interviews.
Move aside all ya Science fiction makers… Harry Baweja is out to rock (literally) your world…
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March 13th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Saajan chale Jupiterlal… or perhaps Mera Pati sirf Pluto ka hain…:))
March 14th, 2006 at 1:40 am
KMG a science fiction ?????
Remember Jagdish Bhagwatis retort after interacting with SanghPariwars’ desitva economists ..
“If these guys are econmists I am a Bharatanatyam Dancer”
March 16th, 2006 at 10:11 am
how many sci-fic movies did bollywood produce yet.
I can remember of Mr.India.
Can oz tell us about it.