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 A new Bollywood film about match fixing in cricket depicts a coach found dead under mysterious circumstances during a tournament -- mirroring the death of Bob Woolmer at the cricket World Cup in 2007. Jannat, a fictional take on the grey areas of the game, is primarily the story of a bookie but director Kunal Deshmukh said the death of the Pakistan cricket coach did have its echoes in the film. "The story of the man becoming a match fixer is fictional but the incident of a coach's death is certainly inspired from Woolmer's death," Deshmukh told Reuters on Wednesday. Woolmer, 58, was found dead on March 18, 2007 - a day after Pakistan were eliminated from the World Cup in Jamaica following an upset loss to Ireland. He was found unconscious in his hotel room and pronounced dead in hospital. Speculation about his death had included suggestions he had uncovered a match-fixing scandal - but Deshmukh said the film was not an attempt to solve the mystery. "The film is not about Bob Woolmer and we are definitely not hinting at what happened to him, who all killed him and who were behind the tragedy," he said. Jannat is slated to open in cinemas on May 2 and stars Bhatt-camp's favourite star Emraan Hashmi.
Related StoriesJannat-will-be-Emraans-Naam:-Mahesh-Bhatt  Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says his just released Jannat, which is about match-fixing, will change his blue-eyed boy Emraan Hashmi's image the way Naam did Sanjay Dutt's. He has special words of praise for his leading man. "I think Jannat is Emraan's coming of age movie. It would do for Emraan what my Naam did for Sanjay Dutt. He is a vulnerable, abominable risk-taker who falls in love with a woman who has a value system totally contrary to his," Bhatt told IANS. more Emraan-euphoric-after-Jannat-success  A success works wonders. Especially if you your last few films don't work. And if it's a solo hit, well, the joy knows no bounds. Post Jannat, Emraan Hashmi is grinning from ear to ear. Jannat has come as a breather for Mukesh Bhatt, as also for debutante director Kunal Deshmukh and writer debutante Vishesh Bhatt, whose careers depended on how Jannat fared. "I was hurt, I was angry after Awarapan," Emraan admits honestly, "The film hadn't worked and people had written me off. I had to prove more Emraan-on-a-high!  Ya, my price has gone up. I won't say drastically," Emraan says, explaining, "Equations change every Friday. The sun has started shining for me. I have a solo hit at a time when only Akshay Kumar and the Khans seem to be getting the audiences in," he said. This is his first hit after duds like The Train, Good Boy, Bad Boy and Awarapan. "I've just bought a new BMW. I was so confident about Jannat that I had it delivered to my home on the day of its release," he says. Emraan has even backed out of a film more Emraan-Hashmi:-JANNATs-soundtrack,-a-classic!  JANNAT is all set to release on 16th May. Now that would be the time when IPL would be nearing its peak of excitement which would only make this Mukesh Bhatt film (which deals with the world of match fixing and betting) even more contemporary. Before that, there is quite some heat building up for the steady progress of the film's music as well, as evidenced by the constant escalation that JANNAT is seeing on the music charts. After creating quite some excitement over the month gone by, JANNAT has mana more If-my-director-convinces-me,-Ill-still-kiss  Emraan Hashmi gets a new audience in Pakistan where Awarapan will be released on Friday. But the actor is more delighted about his kiss-less role. Clad in a checkered shirt and ribbed jeans, his tousled hair swept back in a hair band, Emraan Hashmi lounges carelessly in his room in a city hotel. Restlessly, he flips channels, hoping it was as easy to change the image he has cultivated for himself over the past three years in the film industry. “I am sick of my old image,” he more Bold-isnt-just-skin-show-for-JANNATs-Sonal!  Former Ponds Femina Miss India and the 2005 Miss World Tourism, Sonal Chauhan, is now better known as the JANNAT girl. In the Bhatt camp movie, Sonal plays the character of a middle class but bold girl, Zoya. However, like a true self respecting Rajputani, Sonal is quite forthright about her bold role opposite the on-screen serial kisser, Emraan Hashmi! She elaborates that bold does not mean only skin show. According to Sonal, her bold role symbolizes her bold thinking and a carefree attitude in JANNA more -YSR-fan-death-toll-348  The death of YS Rajashekar Reddy has come as a big shock to many of the party works and fans. Some of the fans were unable to bear the chock and collapsed and died due to cardiac arrest. Sakshi newspaper ha put the death toll across the state since YSR’s death at 348. Out of this, 23 deaths are due to suicide while the remaining deaths occurred due to heart attack suffered by the shocked fans. &n more I-was-sick-of-kissing-on-screen  Emraan Hashmi, who has been tagged as a 'serial kisser' by the media, says he is sick of kissing people on screen and is happy that his latest flick Awarapan does not have any such scenes. "I was sick of kissing on screen," the 28-year-old actor said during a news conference in New Delhi to promote Awarapan. "I was being typecast as a kisser. Thankfully, I'm not kissing anyone in this film. "When I used to see myself kissing on screen, I did not feel good myself and I can understand wha more Congressmen-inflated-‘YSR-Shock’-death-figures  The death of YS Rajashekar Reddy came as a big shock to everyone. YSR was a very popular leader and the people in the state had a special place for him in their hearts. As the news of his death in a helicopter crash poured in, several people in the state were reported to have died of shock. Some people even committed suicide. The death toll due to YSR Death shock has been put at 417. It now appears that most of the death figures were inflated. Not everyone died due to shock but due some died due to natural causes. Some of the people who died were aged 60 and some even aged 70 and above and were ailing for q more Sahil-is-my-past  Making news eversince her entry in Bollywood with Mukesh Bhatt’s Jannat – be it for her stunning looks or her much-hyped friendship with Sahil Zaroo, is model-turned-VJ- turned actor Sonal Chauhan. In a freewheeling chat, she talks about her experience of working with the Bhatt camp, personal life and upcoming films. “I always wanted to be a star and here I am. Having taken no training in acting or dance, I did go through my share of struggle until the Bhatt camp took notice of me and gave more |
