KILL BILL - HOLLYWOOD HELPS INDIA SHOOT ITS MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE

HOLLYWOOD HELPS INDIA SHOOT ITS MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE

The Stan Winston special effects house is creating a robot that will be a "replica" of Indian film star Rajinikanth, one of India's leading stars, for a film budgeted at $24 million, the most expensive film ever shot on the Asian subcontinent, according to a Reuters report. The film, Robot , is not being shotd by producers in Mumbai, the site of India's Bollywood, but in Chennai, and it will use the Tamil language instead of Hindi. What makes the production particularly unique is that it amounts to a marriage between Indian film producers and Hollywood talent. Besides the Winston studios, the credits include Hollywood costume designer Mary E. Vogt, who created the costumes in Batman Returns and Men in Black , fight-scene designer Woo-Ping Yuen, whose credits include Kill Bill and The Matrix , and an unnamed Hollywood make-up artist assigned to co-star Rai Bachchan. The production is being backed by the Indian TV network Sun. Reuters said that the movie is currently in its fourth month of production and will take another year to complete.

15/05/2009