The Kites shoot should have ended in 30 days; incessant re-shoots delay the film to 120-odd days
The Kites shoot should have ended in 30 days; incessant re-shoots delay the film to 120-odd days
Rakesh Roshan's Kites was meant to be completed in a start-to-finish 30-day schedule, but thanks to all the reshooting, the film which has now stretched to 120-plus days, and the movie is still far from complete.
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A source reveals, "Anurag (Basu, the director of Kites) finished a complex film likeu00a0Life In A... Metro which was a multi-starrer and had various subplots, in 28 days flat.
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So when he approached The Roshans to be a part of his next film (Kites), he told them that the principal shooting of the film would be completed in a little over a month's time.
But given the grandeur of the film with a top star and an international star cast, the time spent on the movie set was bound to rise with a few more days' work."
The source adds, "But as things stand now, the writer-director has shot for more than 125 days. Some scenes and songs are still left to be canned.
It is believed that whenever the unit comes back from shooting anything, there is a special screening held to view the rushes of the canned scenes.
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But after every screening, Rakesh has some issue or the other and tells Anurag to re-shoot the scenes."
The source continues, "Given Anurag's track record , he would have been done with at least 3-4 medium budget flicks by now."
When contacted, Anurag says, "The shooting of the film is on schedule. As a matter of fact, I was allotted 130 days and I'm going to be done with the shoot in 110."
