ign Mien & Men Buddha to Appear with Fore upcoming release The Way ear When Mahatma Gandhi can app ign fore with en on Indian big scre a men and mien, why not Gautam t wha tly Buddha? That’s exac must director Ashutosh Gowariker od peri the have thought. For, st moviemaker – even as his late Jee Hum lein Khe cinematic venture big the hit to Jaan Sey is waiting d screen – has already gone ahea stry indu by ed ider with what is cons ngouti s opu num circles as his mag gn the Buddha, with an all-forei . starcast and crew
ra Being produced by Dr.Bhupend Kumar Modi and directed by Gowariker, Buddha is slated to ntal relive the ancient India and Orie 2590 Past of circa 580 B.C. (or say BP). It will retell the journey of the Gautama Buddha right from ce Prin time when he was known as Siddhartha to his moment of the Enlightenment and turning into Bud dha . play While the hunt for the actor to it on, still be to said is the lead role ie mov the that note to g is intriguin allan have will primarily international crew except production designer Nitin ked Chandrakant Desai who has wor For ies. mov er arik Gow for most of w those who are interested to kno is that try artis l iona the internat flowing into the scripting of cinematic Buddha:
Back, Disney’s Hexe Lilli, Warner Bros.’ Das Wilde Leben, Blood Diamond, and films such as City a, of Joy, Flames in Paradise, May rs othe ng amo Return to Rajapur
Day, movies such as Independence ies, Diar cess The Jackal, The Prin nicles Maid in Manhattan, The Chro a Ninj ian, of Narnia: Prince Casp Assassin e April Ferry (USA) - Costum rd, Awa y dem Aca rigne Des er BAFTA and Emmy award winn 3: who has worked on Terminator , Rise of the Machines, Maverick rity Free Willy, Frailty, National Secu
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Unit Glenn Boswell (AUS) - 2nd - has ator rdin coo t director / Stun en X-M like ies worked on mov Wolverine, I, Robot, all three d Matrix films, Dark City, The Islan Line Red Thin of Dr. Moreau,
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Jarrod Linton(AUS) - Previz Supervisor- has worked on movies like Harry Potter and the Vinci Order of the Phoenix, The Da te cola Code, Charlie and the Cho en X-M Factory, Troy, The Spirit,
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Wol veri ne David Russell (AUS) - Story Board artist- a renowned r storyboard artist and illustrato 80 over to ted ribu cont having movies including Hollywood Xblockbusters such as Star Wars,
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en David S. Ward (USA) - Scre his for writer- best known Oscar winning screenplay in The Sting and Sleepless in Seattle
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Michel Shane (USA) Executive Producer- who is known for having worked on films like I Robot and Catch Me If You Can ) Karl Walter Lindenlaub (USA yraph tog Pho - Director of Germ an-b orn Lind enla ub earned fame for his work on
ut Apparently feeling glorified abo Modi his boastful venture, producer a, is a was quoted as saying: “Buddh ed a truly global film, and we need al team that would have a glob uage lang d scen tran and ty ibili sens barriers.”
Men Wolverine, Batman, er Terminator II, Who Framed Rog & eo Rom ne, bsto Tom Rabbit, Juliet, Moulin Rouge •
/USA) Dileep Singh Rathore (IND ruce Prod - Co-producer / Line in ce rien expe with over 20 years estic producing and handling dom ons, ucti prod and international r’s Dileep’s credits include Peter Wei
According to sources close to to Gowariker, Dr. Modi’s decision the was lish Eng in make Buddha the critical differentiator between For ial. spec the conventional and subjects like Buddha, the storytellers need to keep in view it international audiences, and that in ie mov the e mak was decided to to English, it became imperative get to rtise expe l have internationa to eal app and the intended look the whole exercise. some That the movie is already into two-and-half months of pree production work with extensiv sessions with the director of r photography, costume designe the es and stunt-coordinator mak ie whole talk about the epic mov ons practically one. For the pers associated with the movie have als of etched their names in the ann als enti movie history with such cred d. llele that are unlikely to be para ber There had been countless num on, ies stor of ions vers ic of cinemat on told and s Epic an Indi and from no , ever How . scale al epic ly practical itive sens the hed touc one ever subject of the Buddha whose preachings had often been society disputed by some sections of the to e vanc rele of nds on the grou . ages ent subsequ is The search for cinematic Buddha however still on.
July-September 2010
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