The actress' dream to go international comes crashing down as her film opposite Josh Hartnett is stalled for going over-budget
The actress' dream to go international comes crashing down as her film opposite Josh Hartnett is stalled for going over-budget
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The film, which was elaborately shot in Rajasthan last year has apparently gone Rs 80 crore over-budget putting the producers in a fix.
Says a source, "There were financial issues in the film from the very beginning. Even when they were shooting in Australia there were money problems.
They finished the first two schedules of the film and then realised that a lot more money would be required to complete the rest of the shoot. Director Roland Joffe was hoping to resume shoot soon, but now it seems impossible."
The budget of the film at the moment is over R 150 crore, which is much higher than the estimated budget. Adds the source, "Singularity is a period drama and hence a very extravagant film.
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To crunch the budget and hence cut down sequences would be out of question as it will not do justice to the script." Apart from Josh Hartnett and Neve Campbell, the rest of the cast includes Abhay Deol, Atul Kulkarni and Milind Gunaji.
Josh Hartnett and Bipasha Basu
And naturally they would all be looking forward to the film being finally made. The source adds,u00a0 "At this point the producers are not just short of finance but are also under debt that cannot be repaid without the film being complete."
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Buzz was that Bips had grand plans of bringing Josh Hartnett down to India for an extensive promotional campaign for the film. Also, Singularity was initially titled The Invaders and was supposed to star Aishwarya Rai and Vivek Oberoi.
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