The most awaited Happy New Year trailer is out. Featuring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Abhishek Bachchan in a typical Bollywood style, the trailer looks impressive in each frame.
The Farah Khan film seems to be a colourful festive treat heavily loaded with naach-gaana and action. The sparkling chemistry between Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone has a breath of fresh air and the two seem to again hit the mark post their successful pairing in Chennai Express and Om Shanti Om.
Shah Rukh Khan seems to created enough buzz for Happy New Year.The film is now one of the most awaited ones. And fans make sure to trend the film on social networking sites. So much is the wait for HNY, that even Aamir Khan decided to delay the poster of PK, in order to not clash with the hyped trailer launch of Happy New Year.
The film has an ensemble cast of, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah, Sonu Sood, Sarah-Jane Dias and Jackie Shroff. We take you through a few lesser known facts about the film.
Farah Khan is a choreographer turned director and she keeps her passion for dancing alive as a judge on dance shows and also choreographing several dance sequences in Bollywood. Till date she has made several successful collaborations with Malaika Arora Khan. However with Happy New Year in the pipeline, the choreographer put her foot down.
Farah Khan refused to choreograph for her brother Sajid Khan in Humshakals. And while that was not all, Farah also turned down the offer to choreograph Malaika Arora Khan inDolly Ki Doli. According to a report in The Times of India, the director completely denied to take up the project in spite of repetitive efforts from Arbaaz Khan.
There were rumours that Happy New Year was initially supposed to be made right after the success of Main Hoon Na. Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan had decided on working on the script. However following a fight between SRK and Farah’s husband, Shirish Kunder, there was reportedly a fallout between the two.
At that time a completely different cast was expected to be a part of it. According to a PTI report, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Zayed Khan and Juhi Chawla were supposed to be in the film. However now looking at the cast, Farah Khan has gone for a complete revamp.
Farah Khan has managed to bring together a huge star cast of varied actors like, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Sonu Sood. While planning the film, Farah Khan was reportedly sure to cast Shah Rukh Khan. However a lot of names were being speculated for the rest of the cast, there were reports of TV actress Ankita Lohande marking her debut with Happy New Year. Apart from that, John Abraham was also supposed to play a parallel lead in the movie.
Speaking about the same to Bollywoodhungama, John had said, “I could not do Happy New Year because I have my home productions to do. I told SRK about it and SRK is always gracious, because he has his own home production too. He told me, “John you should concentrate on your home production.”I am very fond of him and it was very amicable.”
Farah Khan is known to come up with some quirky ideas for music videos in her films. ForOm Shanti Om she managed to rope in a lot of Bollywood biggies, while for Main Hoon Naashe shot a quirky video with the cast. And a similar thing is expected to be in Happy New Year as well. There are talks of a couple of interesting cameos in the film.
Malaika Arora Khan will reportedly be a part of Happy New Year, as a cameo. And the makers of HNY, have also roped in Prabhu Dheva for a cameo, it might just be an interesting dance number from the Indian Michael Jackson.
arah Khan may come across as a very interesting filmmaker, but Abhishek Bachchan decided to spill the beans about the choreographer turned director, saying that she is a big disciplinarian on the sets of the film. According to a report in The Times of India, Abhishek Bachchan had said, “If you are working with Farah, you don’t get any time at all. Between the cut and the next shot, she is ready. I think having triplets helped her prepare for Happy New Year.
We were like her kids and she knew exactly how to manage all the ‘children’ on the set. She was like a strict mother.” She is a responsible mother, not just on the sets but at home also. The director had to once skip work to be with her kids who were ill.
