Sneak Peek: Aladin

Aladin is due for release and Sujoy Ghosh gets talking.

The promo of Aladin which was on Youtube a while ago has been yanked off. We got a sneak peek of it early this morning. It showcases dazzling special effects that we haven't seen in Indian films as yet.

Amitabh Bachchan plays the genie, Riteish plays the titular role, Jacqueline Fernandez plays Jasmine and Sanjay Dutt plays the ringmaster. It has a contemporary setting as Aladin and Jasmine are college-going characters. Jasmine is the pretty girl while Aladin is a loser.

The music for the Sujoy Ghosh film has been scored by Vishal-Shekhar, who have previously worked with him on the smashing soundtrack of Jhankaar Beats.

About Sujoy's choice of Riteish Deshmukh to play the lead, he said, "I had just delivered a turkey-Home Delivery and was toying with the idea of doing Aladin, and hesistantly approached Riteish."

"I had to curb Riteish's excitement because the moment he knew that Aladin was going to be a reality, he started jumping up and down at the very thought of it."

"Since Riteish had a miniscule role in Home Delivery and it flopped, Riteish told me I owed him a hit," adds Sujoy.

With the release of this film Sujoy hopes to recover from the disaster that was his last film Home Delivery.

Aladin releases on October 16.