Sunday, June 22, 2008

Jackie Chan
Here is a Ripley's Believe It or Not from the heart of southern tinsel town. Chennai-based Aaskar Ravichandran, the producer of Kamal Haasan's latest movie Dasavathaaram, is planning to make a movie with Jackie Chan as the lead actor at a cost of Rs 600-700 crore ($150 million), which would by far be the most expensive movie made in India.

If his dream comes true, it will beat the cost of making Rajinikanth starrer Sivaji-The Boss ten times over, which had cost $15 million.

The head of a leading film production company in Chennai said that this would be too big and risky a bet particularly for a Jackie Chan movie. "When was the last time you heard of a big hit from Jackie Chan movie in India? It is definitely a daring attempt and I wonder how Ravichandran is going to fund this movie," he asked.

"The movie will be funded from bank debts and the collections from Dasavathaaram," said Ravichandarn.

He confirmed his biggest bet ever taken in the Indian film industry to Business Standard , while discussing his expectation from Dasavathaaram. He estimates box office collection for this movie would be Rs 200-300 crore, when the movie finally gets out of the theatres. He also said that the first week collection alone would be Rs 50 crore ( just Rs 10 crore short of the movie production cost of Rs 60 crore).

Ravichandran who was distributing the Jackie Chan movies in India for a number of years is now going to produce the actor's movie on his own. Apparently, the script of the movie that will be made in the Indian style has been approved by Jackie Chan. The genre of the movie, like most other Jackie Chan movies will be action-comedy.

Ravichandran, however, did not disclose any other information about the salary the big stars on the movie will be drawing and details of the people who are going to work in the movie.

Producer's three-year old son Sanjith will also make his debut in this movie.

According to movie industry sources, Ravichandran had made lavish arrangements for the star's two day visit in Chennai. He booked the entire top floor of Park Sheraton Hotel for three days for Jackie Chan and for his personal security guards. The total cost of Jackie Chan's visit to Chennai was around Rs 5.5 crore, said sources.

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