Akshay plays the lead in Pandey's film, which is a fictionalised account of a real incident from the 80s.
Mumbai:
Four years after he made his debutwith the critically-acclaimed A Wednesday, director NeerajPandey is back with another thriller Special Chabbis,starring Akshay Kumar.
Akshay plays the lead in Pandey's film, which is afictionalised account of a real incident from the 80s.
The director says that the Khiladi actor was committedto the movie as an actor and not as the superstar.
"We had (Akshay) the actor and not the superstar in thefilm. Fortunately it was the actor who was coming on thesets. It was a terrific experience to work with Akshay as hegave his entire commitment for this project," Pandey said.
The 45-year-old actor has been lucky as far as box officecollections are concerned with his two films --Housefull 2and Rowdy Rathore -- crossing the golden Rs 100-crore marklast year.
Ask Pandey if he made the film and did the casting withthe target to enter the elite club, he said, "No nothing likethat. When we started working on the project there was nonumber as such."
Special Chabbis is based on a real incident in 1987when 26 people, pretending to be officers of the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI), walked into a jewellery storein Zaveri Bazaar and walked out with jewelry worth lakhs.
"I read a news article somewhere in 2000-01 of unsolvedcases in Mumbai and this incident caught my eye for the reasonthat it was so cerebral in its execution," Pandey said.
"After A Wednesday I was looking for a subject todevelop into a script and this story line came back verystrongly to me. I wrote the script and fortunately it turnedout to be good and we decided to go ahead with it," he said.
The director said it was quite challenging for him towrite the film as it was inspired by a real life incident.
"It is a tougher project in a way as compared to myearlier one. Every project has different challenges, thisproject had its challenges," he said.
The film also stars Kajal Aggarwal, Jimmy Shergill, ManojBajpai and Anupam Kher and hits the screens on February 8.
Akshay plays the lead in Pandey's film, which is afictionalised account of a real incident from the 80s.
The director says that the Khiladi actor was committedto the movie as an actor and not as the superstar.
"We had (Akshay) the actor and not the superstar in thefilm. Fortunately it was the actor who was coming on thesets. It was a terrific experience to work with Akshay as hegave his entire commitment for this project," Pandey said.
The 45-year-old actor has been lucky as far as box officecollections are concerned with his two films --Housefull 2and Rowdy Rathore -- crossing the golden Rs 100-crore marklast year.
Ask Pandey if he made the film and did the casting withthe target to enter the elite club, he said, "No nothing likethat. When we started working on the project there was nonumber as such."
Special Chabbis is based on a real incident in 1987when 26 people, pretending to be officers of the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI), walked into a jewellery storein Zaveri Bazaar and walked out with jewelry worth lakhs.
"I read a news article somewhere in 2000-01 of unsolvedcases in Mumbai and this incident caught my eye for the reasonthat it was so cerebral in its execution," Pandey said.
"After A Wednesday I was looking for a subject todevelop into a script and this story line came back verystrongly to me. I wrote the script and fortunately it turnedout to be good and we decided to go ahead with it," he said.
The director said it was quite challenging for him towrite the film as it was inspired by a real life incident.
"It is a tougher project in a way as compared to myearlier one. Every project has different challenges, thisproject had its challenges," he said.
The film also stars Kajal Aggarwal, Jimmy Shergill, ManojBajpai and Anupam Kher and hits the screens on February 8.
