Sunday, March 6, 2011

SRK to turn Don against Leonardo DiCaprio!

If all goes well, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be seen sharing screen space with his Hollywood counterpart Leonardo DiCaprio in a cross-cultural thriller 'Xtreme City', a tale about two men from radically different worlds.

SRK's biographer (Still Reading Khan) and screenplay writer Mushtaq Sheikh has penned the script with Hollywood writer-director Paul Schrader, who will direct this movie.

American filmmaker Martin Scorsese has come on board as a producer with David Weisman for the movie, where SRK will essay the role of an underworld gangster while DiCaprio will be playing a New York cop.

Sheikh said 'Xtreme City' is not in anyway a traditional gangster movie. "Its a different kind of film...one where both Indian and American protagonists are balanced human beings who the story treats in their full complexity, and at no point in either culture ever dimished or taken for granted. Its a cross-cultural thriller designed for both Bollywood and Hollywood. And if we get it right..this will be an attempt at true global entertainment," Sheikh said.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/srk-to-turn-don-against-leonardo-dicaprio/758591/


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