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Ash to team
up with Douglas?
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MUMBAI:
Oscar-winning US star Michael Douglas is hoping to sign
Bollywood darling Aishwarya Rai for his next adventure
flick, Racing the Monsoon , to be shot in India,
media reports said on Tuesday.
"Aishwarya and I met in Los Angeles last year –
some months ago – where it was discussed we should
work together. Hope things work out," a leading
newspaper quoted the veteran US actor as saying in
Mumbai.
Rai, 31, a former Miss World and one of the highest-paid
actresses in India's prolific movie industry, starred in
the recently released British film Bride and
Prejudice , an adaptation of Jane Austen's classic
novel.
Racing the Monsoon will be the third part in an
adventure trilogy, following the films Romancing the
Stone and Jewel of the Nile which hit screens
20 years ago.
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now we're developing the screenplay (for Racing the Monsoon
) and hope to begin production in early 2006,"
Douglas, who was visiting Mumbai on a scouting mission, told
the paper.
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There
was no immediate comment available about the movie from Rai
who told US television audiences last month she had never had
an on-screen Bollywood kiss but that did not mean she would
not smooch in a Hollywood movie.
Kissing is considered taboo in Indian cinema where
song-and-dance sequences are often used as metaphors for
steamy passion.
"I've seen bits of Bride and Prejudice and Raincoat
starring Aishwarya, but I must admit I'm no expert on
Indian films or Bollywood," Douglas added.
Douglas
said the film, a US-Indian joint production whose plot
involves a diamond train heist, will be shot in India.
He said he got the idea for the film from a newspaper
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about " angadias (couriers) in India who
travel on trains carrying diamonds. So I chose India as
the backdrop for the film."
The newspaper said the film was expected to cost 65
million dollars.
Douglas, who will produce the film and play one of the
co-conspirators, told The Indian Express he would
bring his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, for the shooting.
"I promised my wife I won't expose myself too much
to this country until she comes with me, said Douglas,
who returned to the United States on Monday.
"She has always wanted to visit India."
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