Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori the lead pair of Kites
Rakesh Roshan’s film Kites has been in news for various reasons.
First, though it is being produced by Rakesh Roshan and stars his son Hrithik Roshan in the lead role, the film is being promoted as an international project. And Rakesh Roshan has left no left no stone unturned to highlight this fact. First of all, Rakesh goes and sign Hollywood actress Barbara Mori for the role of the female lead against his son Hrithik Roshan and then goes and unveils the first look of the film at the prestigious Cannes film festival. Hrithik himself has reported missed no opportunity whatsoever to promote Kites as an international film either. At the very same time, a smart Rakesh has also made sure that back home, Hrithik’s fans also don’t lose interest in the film. Whether it’s the news about the alleged hot kiss in the film or the closeness between Hrithik and Barbara Mori at Cannes, Kites is getting the right kind of publicity.
So, is it a fairy tale story for the Roshans? Not really. Though Hrithik maintains that nothing of those sorts ever happened, the truth is that his wife Suzanne was allegedly extremely upset with the news of link-up between Hrithik and Barbara Mori and left home precisely for this reason.
A worried Rakesh is now said to have made it clear to all his near and dear ones that he does not want his son’s life to be turned into hell due to a few scenes in Kites and therefore is contemplating releasing to different edited versions of the film – one without the alleged passionate scenes between Hrithik and Barbara Mori, which will be released back home in India and the other with those scenes, to be released world-wide.
But, with the director of the film Anurag Basu not too happy with the idea, it seems that Rakesh’s plans have already run into trouble. Whereas Rakesh is busy promoting Kites as a film for international audiences, Anurag is worried that this may lead to a situation, where the film turns out to another Slumdog Millionaire, which despite being a smash hit worldwide was a big flop in India. Anurag Basu strongly feels that to avoid this situation, the edition with passionate scenes will have to be released even in India.
But, as producer Rakesh Roshan and director Anurag Basu are busy sorting out their differences, the film has run into further trouble with Rakesh not finding an appropriate distributor of the international release of the film.
Sources now point out that while Rakesh is busy sorting out these issues, it has delayed the release of the film. The film which was due to release in the of 2009 will now only be released early next year.
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