Emraan-Vidya's monsoon romance: Ghanchakkar gets preponed to August

Here’s some good news for the fans of Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan. What is the dope? Well, the much talked-about comedy movie, Ghanchakkar, of theirs has been preponed by a month. The shooting which was supposed to start in September now starts in the beginning of August (2012), and with a very good reason. The director wants to capture this Dirty Picture Jodi in the rains. Emraan and Vidya are all set to recreate their long-forgotten feeling of romancing Mumbai in the monsoon in this Rajkumar Gupta directed flick. And the director’s desire to drench his star pair in the monsoon rains almost didn’t happen. Why? Because Emraan had vetoed director Rajkumar Gupta’s original August shooting for Ghanchakkar because of time constraints, thereby ostensibly killing the proposed monsoonal romance with Vidya. However, a very lucky circumstance overrode Emraan’s schedule. Over to director Rajkumar Gupta, “I had originally planned an August schedule and Vidya, who is at the moment doing no other film, was completely one with my film’s schedule. But Emraan was busy promoting Raaz 3 in August as the film was supposed to hit the screens at that time. But now I believe that Raaz 3 has been pushed forward, so I got the window to shoot the scenes that I wanted. I guess I am just lucky. The idea is to shoot Vidya and Emraan on the rain-soaked streets of Mumbai with secret cameras.” That’s how Gupta had shot Rajeev Khandelwal in Aamir. But to shoot two popular superstars like Vidya and Emraan with hidden cameras requires Herculian amount of courage. Laughs Gupta, “I agree. But both are used to shooting in the crowded outdoors. If Vidya could brave the Kolkata crowds in Kahaani and the Delhi junta in my film No One Killed Jessica then Mumbai would be a cakewalk in comparison. The important thing is, God has been generous. Thanks to Emraan’s reshuffled appointment diary I am able to shoot as and when I had originally planned.” Furthermore, Gupra shares that he looking for two male actors from theatre to be a part of the star cast. Informs Gupta, “We are looking at new faces from theatre and from other sources. We’ve auditioned dozens. With Vidya and Emraan in the cast, I need some untried talent to balance off their huge stardom. Besides the leads, there are two major characters, both male, plus dozens of supporting parts.” Gupta hopes to wrap up the entire shooting by December (2012). The film releases in the first quarter of next year. “We haven’t got a release date as yet. But I am hoping it would be the 8th of any month in the first quarter of 2013. You see, my first film Aamir released on the 6th and my second film No One Killed Jessica released on 7th.” And would there be a profusion of romantic songs in Amit Trivedi’s soundtrack? “Wait and see what Vidya and Emraan do. Ghanchakkar, would be very different from what they did in The Dirty Picture.”