John Abraham to star opposite Rachel Weisz
Now Rachel is one my most favorite actresses and that has (ahem) nothing to do with the fact that she is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. And now it seems Deepa Mehta (Water, Fire, Earth) will be directing her in a project that stars John Abraham opposite her. Yes. Opposite. So could this be one of the first International projects where a Hollywood star and a Bollywood star act opposite each other?
Read on… according to this Yahoo Report
Bollywood actor John Abraham will star opposite Hollywood’s
Rachel Weisz in a new film inspired by the true story of an American environmentalist’s fight to save trees, a report said on Tuesday.
ADVERTISEMENT“Luna” will be directed by
Deepa Mehta, the award-winning director of Indian origin whose last film, “Water,” about Hindu widows, was short-listed for an Oscar in the best foreign film category this year.“John, who plays an environmentalist in ‘Luna’, is not an Indian nor an American in the film,” Mehta, who lives in Canada, was quoted as saying by the Times of India newspaper. “His cultural origins aren’t specified.”
Most Bollywood actors in Hollywood films have played roles of Indians. But Abraham, whose long hair resembles that of actor
Antonio Banderas, will be the first leading character whose cultural origin is not specified in the story.Abraham had starred in Mehta’s “Water” as well.
Two-time Oscar winner David Ward will write the script of “Luna,” which has been inspired by the life of Julia Hill, an American environmentalist who lived in a 1000-year-old redwood tree for 738 days to prevent loggers from cutting it down.
Hill, to be portrayed by “Constant Gardner” star Weisz, eventually forced the lumber company to not only save the ancient tree — which she called “Luna” — but also all trees in her area.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 am
Sounds exciting
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
aren’t you forgetting about that magnum bhopus called “marigold” with salman and ali larter? :D