Asin refuses Farah’s film

Usually, Farah Khan gets what she wants. From shooting Chale Jaise Hawaein in Main Hoon Na in only one un-interrupted sequence to uniting the who’s who of Bollywood in Deewangi Deewangi in Om Shanti Om. Now, Asin has broken her track record.

Farah Khan and Asin got friendly when she appeared on Farah’s chat show, Tere Mere Beach Mein, and have been in touch ever since. Asin has proved her mettle as an actress in Ghajini and her South Indian films and has a big release coming up in the form of London Dreams. She has an Indo-international martial arts film and her endorsement contracts.

A source tells us, ‘Farah thought Asin was a suitable choice for the female lead in Happy New Year and approached her for the role, but Asin politely turned her down citing date issues. Asin’s behaviour is quite odd considering she was keen on working with SRK, and when the opportunity knocked on her door, she turned it down. It’s not that she didn’t have good role because in Farah’s films, the actresses have as much of a role as the heroes. Deepika had a double role in OSO and Main Hoon Na redefined Amrita Rao and Sushmita Sen’s careers and is the most memorable film of their careers. There is a huge market for Farah Khan’s masala films as OSO is one of the biggest hits of all time and Main Hoon Na did really well too.’

He further adds, ‘Happy New Year will go on the floors by the end of this year and doing the film would have helped Asin gain entry into SRK’s powerful camp. She isn’t even friends with Salman Khan any more. When established actresses are keen on working with Farah Khan, it is bizarre why she turned down the film when she was the first choice for it. In India there isn’t really a market for martial arts films. Look at how Drona, CC2C and Asoka have fared. Rubbing Farah Khan the wrong way is professional hara-kiri, especially for a newcomer.’

Let us hope Asin realizes that she will lose out on a very important opportunity if she turns down the film and it would be wise to cancel her other assignments to make time for Farah’s film. If she doesn’t do Happy New Year, it will be another feather in the hat of Kareena, Deepika or Priyanka.

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Big B not part of Farah Khan's next film

Only Shah Rukh finalised for ‘Happy New Year’

Farah Khan has put to rest the rumours about Amitabh Bachchan being a part of her next film, “Happy New Year”.

She has said that as of now only Shah Rukh and she are in the movie. She also said that she does not finalise anyone except Shah Rukh before the entire scripting is done.

The movie is still in the scripting stage and is expected to go on floors later this year.

Farah will re-start the work on “Happy New Year” once she is finished with the schedules of her chat show “Tere Mere Beach Mein”.

Farah had earlier reported that she will bring SRK and Big B together in the movie and try to end the cold war between the two.

Farah also denied reports that Juhi Chawla, Zayed Khan and Sanjay Dutt were part of the movie.

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World music in Shah Rukh's next

After the success of Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om, there's tremendous curiosity around Farah Khan's third project Happy New Year. While not much is known about the plot - except for the fact that it stars Shah Rukh Khan – Farah is looking to pull off a first of sorts with the music of the film.

At a a recent event when Farah Khan launched a new reality show, her co-judge and Main Hoon Na music director Anu Malik dropped hints about composing music for Happy New Year. "I have to laugh at Farah's jibes since I have to do the soundtrack for her next," Anu said. But this time Farah doesn't intend to stick only to the songs that feature in the film.

When we asked the director if Vishal-Shekhar have a reason to worry despite scoring a chartbusting album in OSO, she said, "I am looking at a completely different style of music for Happy New Year".

Farah added, "The movie requires a variety of sounds – which is why I don't intend on sticking to one composer. I hope Vishal-Shekhar, Anu and all the people I approach will help me on the music of the film". Farah added, "Bhangra Pop artiste Sukhbir might also do a special track for the film."

Speaking on the film's music, Farah further revealed, "I plan to go the World Music way for Happy New Year, as the script demands an international sound. The album will be more of an OST comprising a compilation of original and purchased tracks - as they do for motion picture scores in Hollywood".

Prior to Farah, Sanjay Gupta has experimented with the idea of having multiple composers in one film.

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Farah Khan’s Happy New Year goes on floors

Putting rumours to rest, Farah Khan announced that her third film, with SRK again, called Happy New Year, will go on the floors this year.

Farah is optimistic. “No matter what, we will begin shooting for the film this year. Even if the first shoot happens on December 31, it will still happen this year,” she says adamantly.

Currently, Farah is seen on the small screen in Tere Mere Beech Mein.

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