By Hindustan Times
The last time Shirish Kunder directed a film (Tees Maar Khan, 2010), it sank with out a trace. So, this time around, he appears to be trying everything possible in order for his upcoming sci-fi film, Joker, doesn’t face the similar fate. He won't have found aliens to come back and fill seats in theatres, but he’s got plans of taking the film to space!
In a promotional gimmick to overcome all promotional gimmicks, it sounds as if producers UTV-Disney are planning to screen the approaching film 230 miles above the earth, on the International Space Station (ISS).
A trade source reveals that the filmmakers are in talks with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to see the logistics to screen the film on the space station for astronaut Sunita Williams.
The Indian-American is currently on her second space expedition, accompnanied by Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.
“UTV-Disney is attempting to deal with the procedure to uplink the film from NASA in order that the astronauts can watch it there,” says the source.The astronauts docked their spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-05M, on the ISS on Tuesday after two days in orbit. The source reveals that the plan is to screen Joker at the space station an afternoon after its release on August 31. “They plan to screen the film for the astronauts on September 1,” says the source.
Shikha Kapur of production house UTV-Disney, says, “For Joker, we now have many out-of-the-box ideas and they're all on the strategy planning stage. We can’t disclose anything so early.
Joker involves a mysterious town called Paglapur, a UFO from space, aliens and a NASA scientist played by Akshay Kumar.
