After his unconventional last movie (Dhobi Ghat), Prateik Babbar is prepared to burn the screen with supermodel Amy Jackson of their upcoming Hindi movie, Ek Deewana Tha.
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About Ek Deewana Tha
It seems almost everything about Ek Deewana Tha, except for the lead actors, have been copied from Gautham Menon’s Tamil film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (VTV). Interestingly, VTV was also remade into a Telugu film titled Ye Maaya Chesave in 2010.
The soundtrack and movie score of Ek Deewana Tha have been composed by A. R. Rahman, as he had done within the Tamil and Telugu versions. Even the original cinematographers and editors, M. S. Prabhu and Anthony Gonsalves, was hired for Ek Deewana Tha. Last of all, singer Chinmayi who dubbed for actresses Trisha Krishnan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu respectively in the unique Tamil version and its Telugu remake, is doing that for Amy Jackson in Ek Deewana Tha.
Cast and Crew
- Starring – Prateik Babbar, Amy Jackson, Manu Rishi, Sachin Khedekar and Ramesh Sippy
- Director – Gautham Menon
- Producers – Gautham Menon, Reshma Ghatala, Venkat Somasundaram, Sanjay Routrey and Senthil Veeraasamy
- Music Director – A R Rahman
- Audio – Sony Music
- Genre – Romance
- Ek Deewana Tha release date – 17th February 2012
Synopsis
The story of Ek Deewana Tha is nothing new – the similar opposites attract, fall in love, get broken, and come back again. Well, a part of it's true and the remainder can easily be deduced from the trailer.
Sachin (Prateik Babbar) is a typical 22 year old engineering graduate who comes from a center class family in Mumbai. He's a Bollywood fan and needs to make it big within the movies. Surviving on his father’s pocket money, Sachin is desperately looking to land a job in a mainstream movie. And that’s when he meets Jessie (Amy Jackson). He's blown away for it’s love in the beginning sight for him. However, every Bollywood love story has a conflict to it to make it more interesting. in EDT, Jessie comes orthodox Malayali Christian family where watching movies, partying or falling in love are completely taboo.
While Sachin battles with the speculation of somebody like Jessie and her family living in 21st century, modern Mumbai-he finds himself increasingly attracted to her. Jessie, for her part, tries to forge a friendship between them-believing that cloaking their feelings under the umbrella of friendship would save them heartache, tears and a whole blown family drama.
The intentions of the filmmakers are quite clear – all they would like to do is become profitable by rehashing a Tamil story that worked years back, into Hindi and feeding it to Bollywood fans. I'M WONDERING when will creativity and never money, will rule. No less than within the film and humanities industry.
Prateik Babbar is the son of Bollywood legend Smita Patil while Amy is a British model who has appeared at the covers of numerous fashion magazines (FHM, Maxim, Cosmo, Vogue). In keeping with the grapevine, Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson are romancing one another off screen besides. Of course, this would even be a publicity stunt but apparently, they were really comfortable doing intimate scenes on screen.
The Trailers of Ek Deewana Tha
Watch the trailer of Ek Deewana Tha below. The movie appears to be pretty decent – let’s hope Amy Jackson shows some promise and skill because Bollywood could seriously do with some nice foreign maal a few of the usual crop of desi actors.
Ek Deewana Tha is prepared to release on 17th February, 2012.
