A recent report claims that Rishi Kapoor is playing the underworld don in the film
Highlights
- Filmmaker Nikhil Advani has clarified that veteran actor Rishi Kapoor's character in his forthcoming film D-Day is not modelled on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. "I completely deny that Rishiji is playing Dawood. He plays an exiled crimelord named Iqbal. If there are similarities to Dawood, it can't be helped. All art basically needs to borrow from real-life headlines. It doesn't mean we are making a feature film on any specific person," said Advani.
- A recent report based on Rishi Kapoor's interview to a daily claimed the actor plays Dawood in the film.
- The interview triggered a panic attack among the film's team that is now frantically trying to complete the post-production while avoiding trouble from crime syndicates.
- One hears that members of the cast, including Rishi Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Irrfan, were summoned a few days back to re-dub some of their more controversial lines.
- "Why is so much being made out of one character's resemblance to someone we all know? I'm being asked how a director of such emotional films as Kal Ho Naa Ho, Salaam-e-Ishq and Patiala House can handle an action film.
- "But there is so much more to D-Day than the action involving the extrication of a wanted criminal from Karachi. The drama and emotions are the mainstay, not just the action scenes," said Advani.
- The director admits that the cast was called to do some additional dubbing but said: "The film is in live sync-sound. We have to dub some of the lines because the dialogues were drowned in action. That's all."
Filmmaker Nikhil Advani has clarified that veteran actor Rishi Kapoor's character in his forthcoming film
D-Day is not modelled on underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
"I completely deny that Rishi
ji is playing Dawood. He plays an exiled crimelord named Iqbal. If there are similarities to Dawood, it can't be helped. All art basically needs to borrow from real-life headlines. It doesn't mean we are making a feature film on any specific person," said Advani.
A recent report based on Rishi Kapoor's interview to a daily claimed the actor plays Dawood in the film.
The interview triggered a panic attack among the film's team that is now frantically trying to complete the post-production while avoiding trouble from crime syndicates.
One hears that members of the cast, including Rishi Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Irrfan, were summoned a few days back to re-dub some of their more controversial lines.
"Why is so much being made out of one character's resemblance to someone we all know? I'm being asked how a director of such emotional films as
Kal Ho Naa Ho,
Salaam-e-Ishq and
Patiala House can handle an action film.
"But there is so much more to
D-Day than the action involving the extrication of a wanted criminal from Karachi. The drama and emotions are the mainstay, not just the action scenes," said Advani.
The director admits that the cast was called to do some additional dubbing but said: "The film is in live sync-sound. We have to dub some of the lines because the dialogues were drowned in action. That's all."