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The Bollywood Version Of Spider-Man Is Better, Because He Can Fly

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:30:00 PDT

The Bollywood version of Spider-Man, starring Shah Rukh Khan (Om Shanthi Om), now has a director — Anubhav Sinha, director of action-movie classics like Dus and Cash. Apparently the film will involve a Spider-Man-style superhero — except that he also soars through the air at supersonic speeds, like Superman. SRK is looking for his costar, a 12-year-old boy. We previously reported that this film will be about a kid who gains access to an alien device that grants his wishes, but it sounds like the script for the most expensive movie in Bollywood history is still being written. [Hindustan Times]

Another Bollywood Scifi Classic In The Making

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:40:07 PST

Indian mega-star Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) wants to produce the company's most expensive movie ever, an untitled science fiction film about kids whose wishes start coming true. Khan, the star of international hit Om Shanti Om, was supposed to produce and star in S. Shankar's Robot, but bailed on the project. Now he wants to make his own movie to top upcoming Bollywood epics like Time Machine, Love Story 2050 and Robot.

SRK's movie will start shooting towards the end of the year, and in the meantime he'll be asking the world's greatest special effects technicians to help make it the greatest effects movie of all time. He tells Variety, "It will madcap, over the top. I want it to be as beautiful as Spider-Man in terms of effects." The movie will be about kids who wish for bad things, but "get a reality check when they come true." SRK reportedly jumped ship from Robot because he felt its storyline, about a companion robot that turns deadly, wasn't realistic enough.

Hollywood hasn't courted SRK yet, and he says he's waiting for the right opportunity for his quirky persona:

I'm waiting for someone like Steven Spielberg or James Cameron or some other great person like Ang Lee to make a film a film about a brown, thin, scrawny Indian guy who doesn't speak English too well. If they ever have a character like that and Google it, I'm sure they'll find me... Seriously, it would have to be character-specific. I'd love to do an action-comic film like Chris Rock and Jackie Chan.

[Variety]

Bollywood Vigilante Fights Evil Mecha

charliejane — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:30:20 PST

A Bollywood robot movie is back from development hell. S. Shankar's Robot has been in development since 2001, but now seems to be back on track to start filming next year.

Robot will be a "futuristic vigilante tale" of man versus robots, according to comments attributed to Shah Rukh Khan, the film star who bailed out of the lead role a month ago. Khan quit because he didn't like the script, but now Ajith Kumar (Vaali, pictured above) is set to star.