In its third week, Ekta Kapoor’s Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai is shake stable at the box office and speculations are widespread about a sequel. Quiz Emraan Hashmi on this and he says, “I’m game but we have to break a excellent concept first, followed by months of pre-production. It’s too early to publicize anything yet.”
Will Part 2 be titled Once Upon A Time In Dubai and be Dawood Ibrahim’s story? “It will be Shoaib Khan’s story,” he retorts, pointing out that Shoaib starts out as a somewhat vulnerable young man who idolises Sultan Mirza, finds his place in the power game, basks in his newfound success and finally guns down his mentor. “The sequel will obtain off from that point. We have still to fix on the era but it would most likely be set in the post 1980s.”
Not Dawood
Hashmi argues that still in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, in spite of the parallels drawn, Shoaib’s character was not modeled on Dawood alone. “The look was broad and the muses plenty. And finally, it was pure fiction,” he says, insisting he’s not got any calls from D company, before or after the release, as the buzz goes.
Meanwhile, the star is gearing up for two more sequels. Murder 2 should obtain off by the end of the year. “We have our idea, it’s smashing stuff,” Hashmi exults. “The characters and their stories will be dissimilar but, I assure, Part 2 will be an yet bigger hit than Murder.” Raaz 3 should also begin post April 2011.
“We’re toying with the plan of making it in 3D, to take it a notch higher in the horror genre,” Hashmi informs, adding that he will also be a part of Jannat 2 once Kunal Deshmukh has locked the script. “Jannat was a landmark film for me and though Arjun died, his son lives on. Besides, cricket is still a religion in India and its controversies have only gotten bigger in the last two years. Jannat 2 is a viable project.”
Before that, however, Hashmi has one more film, Crook—It’s Good To Be Bad, coming up. On the issue of racism, it is about an India boy who goes to Australia chasing after a mirage, only to be torn between the law and standing up for his countrymen.
“After my post-graduation, I required to go to the US to study special effects. But then I got into movies, first as an helper director and then an actor, and life changed,” he reminisces. “May be Raaz 3 will give me a chance to study SFX, sitting in India.”
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