Viswaroopam is an upcoming thriller movie directed and produced by Kamal Haasan under his home production house Raj Kamal International. Starring Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Isha Sharvani & Rahul Bose, Viswaroopam is expected to relaease for Diwali 2012.
Viswaroopam: Starring Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Rahul Bose, Isha Sharvani, Andrea Jeremiah, Samrat Chakrabarti
Directed by Kamal Haasan, Cinematography by Sanu Varghese, Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Vishwaroopam is an upcoming Tamil-Telugu-Hindi trilingual Indian spy thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Kamal Haasan that features himself in the lead role. The film, also has Pooja Kumar, Rahul Bose, Andrea Jeremiah and Jaideep Ahlawat in supporting roles. The soundtrack is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with lyrics by Vairamuthu for the Tamil and Javed Akhtar for the Hindi versions respectively. The film was shot with the same cast in both languages simultaneously, and is titled in Hindi as Vishwaroop.
Development of the film commenced after the release of Kamal's Manmadhan Ambu, and several of the crew were imported from Hollywood. The direction department was taken over by Kamal Haasan from Selvaraghavan, and reports indicating a comparison with Hollywood films surfaced during the production. The initially estimated budget was around 150 crore (US$29.93 million), making it one of the most expensive Indian films. Due to delays, casting took a relatively long period of time, with several of the original cast dropping out of the project. The film was shot extensively overseas, in countries including the United States and Canada, while domestic locations included Chennai and Mumbai.
Viswaroopam is a terrorism based thriller movie which is being simultaneously filmed in Tamil and Hindi.
Kamal Haasan is playing as an Afghan mujahideen., The New York-based actress Pooja Kumar, who also crowned Miss India USA is playing the female lead opposite him. Andrea Jeremiah and Bollywood actress Isha Sharvani are also playing important roles.
Bollywood actor Rahul Bose plays as Baddie while Jaideep Ahlawat and Samrat Chakrabarti, the New York-based Indian actor, play pivotal roles.
Bollywood actor - filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who was behind Academy-nominated flicks like Elizabeth I and it's sequel Elizabeth : The Golden Age, is in guest appearance in Viswaroopam.
Many foreigners from Russia, Iran and Africa are playing as American soldiers, and more than 40 Afghans are playing as Mujahideens.
The first schedule of the movie is shot in the specially designed set in Chennai which replicates Afghanistan. The mountains, the valleys, and the houses are realistically designed to recreate Afghanistan. The next schedule will be held in Jordan, thus becoming the first Tamil film to be shot in Jordan.
Story and dialogues are penned by Kamal Hassan. Initially, Director Selvaraghavan was supposed to direct Viswaroopam. But the dates of the lead roles were not in sync as Selvaraghavan was busy with other projects. Finally, Kamal Haasan has decided to direct the movie.
Sonakshi Sinha, who supposed to play female lead in this movie had to pull off from Viswaroopam. She was replaced by Pooja Kumar, who was last seen in Kollywood 12 years ago in Kadhal Rojave.
Kamal has printed the entire script of Viswaroopam and has distributed the copies to his cinematographer, music director, art director and the actors who are playing the major roles. He wants to make sure that everyone is aware of this script and each and every actor should know their dialogues in both Tamil and Hindi.
Karthik Calling Karthik (Hindi) fame Cinematographer Sanu Varghese is handling the camera while musical trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy are composing the music.
It was earlier rumoured that Viswaroopam is the remake of the hollywood phycological thriller movie Hannibal (2001) but Kamal Haasan has denied this saying that Viswaroopam is his original story.
Currently in filming phase, Viswaroopam is expected to release for Diwali 2012.
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