There’s another film in the works called Mubaarakan with Arjun Kapoor. We first produced my daughter Rhea’s Khoobsurat, now we are doing 24, and soon Veere Di Wedding. We have no ambitions of becoming a huge production house churning out assembly-line productions. He is careful in downplaying the ventures so as not to arouse high expectations. ‘We’ve acquired a few formats that we’ll launch soon.
‘This is the first show being produced by my company, so naturally we are interested,’ he says. The production company he launched in 2014, Antila Ventures, is based in Dubai, and Anil wants the maiden production of his company to be available in the host country. There’s another reason why Anil is keen on showcasing his production in the UAE. It has a great following and people who had seen it are very enthusiastic, and we are very hopeful.’ That’s why we decided to telecast in the UK, Africa and the Middle East along with India. During the first season a lot of viewers wanted to know why they couldn’t get to watch it simultaneously. ‘There have been anxious moments because this is the first time it will be telecast simultaneously in the Middle East along with India. So far it’s been very enriching, educative, exciting, exhilarating… all kinds of emotions. ‘We’ve shot almost 19, and we have another five left to shoot. ‘We are eight episodes ready so far into the second season,’ he says enthusiastically. ‘Let’s wait for his release, see his work.’Īnil, it is clear, would prefer speaking about the reason he’s visiting Dubai: 24. ‘Too early to say about my son, you should ask others!’ he says. Before every shot, Anil takes a quick look to check out the angle, shakes his head to either side like a boxer squaring up to face his opponent, and says, ‘Shoot!’ĭoes his son, who’s 25 and just starting out in showbiz, have his enthusiasm for photo shoots? Anil chooses to misinterpret the question. The only demand is that his trusted make-up man Deepak (‘I’ve been with Saab over 10 years’) be around with the mirror and touch-up kit. He poses at a corner without fussing over the background, jumps on the stage for another shot, and is still raring to go when the photographer calls a halt.
He breezes into the hall and announces: ‘I am all yours!’ in a self-mocking imitation of the television anchor he played in his Hollywood breakthrough hit Slumdog Millionaire.
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That friskiness is very much on display during a Friday-exclusive photo shoot with the star at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, prior to his press conference for the launch of the second season of the Hindi version of 24, a television series that’s quite the rage on Colors TV.
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