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, and god knows you can’t always trust the press. We also didn’t want to contribute to a rumor that ended up being off the mark.
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p>That being said, I think it is safe to report that the upcoming James Bond Film Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig as 007, is keeping it mutinous with its inclusion of at least one brown actor in the film, no not Aishwarya Rai, but Bollywood-villain Gulshan Grover. Grover, true to form, will be playing Le Chiffre, the villain, in Casino Royale, which is based on Ian Fleming’s first James Bond book by the same name.
Shooting for the Bond film is due to begin in Prague in February 2006. Grover will be the first Indian to act in a Bond film since tennis star Vijay Amritraj and Kabir Bedi played important roles in Octopussy (1983). [link]
If I recall correctly Octopussy had many scenes filmed at the lovely Lake Palace, located on Lake Pichola in Udaipur (now a Taj-palace hotel).
Upon doing some research I was pretty amazed to find out that Grover has done (and is in the process of doing) several non Bollywood films, including Beeper, a thriller starring Harvey Keitel, Kaizad Gustad’s really bad film Boom which had a really attractive cast including Padma Lakshmi, member of Salman Rushdie’s posse, the forthcoming My Bollywood Bride, the Salman Khan starrer Marigold, and Tarsem Singh’s The Fall.
hahah… Grover is the man. I went to high school with his son and the man certainly doesn’t sound like the badass he has consistenly played onscreen. But I still can’t figure out how he manages to have really hot, young girlfriends.
The lake’s dried up – is all dusty – I cycled over it and made figures of 8 for the heck of it- divine retribution for making crappy movies.
Completely off topic
bb What school did you go to?
Hopefully Grover can pull off playing a good villian. Daniel Craig is not winning a lot of fans so far.
I am not a bond fan but i watched octupussy because of india connection some time between 88-92(Its a hazy memory, It was last century). Kabir Bedi had a funny line which i can still remember. This is when bond was pulling cables from the outside of a plane in mid air. His boss asks him to go outside and kill bond. His reply “Who Me” was hillarious.
Which article is that quote from?
I heard the guy’s a SRCC passout. how the hell did he end up as “Bollywood’s rape specialist”
So then, now we have Gullu doing his stuff with some dumb blonde, and Mr. Bond crashes the party with something like – “You dog, i’ll drink your blood” (kutte, main tera khoon pee jaaongaa)
WOOHAAA!
Enivhsay:
I went to Kodai International.
Because apparently he’s the total opposite of his screen persona in real life — he’s well-known for being extremely courteous & polite to absolutely everyone, and a thorough gentleman.
In many of his movies, his common dialogue is “I’m a bad man.. a very very bad man…” 😉
I first saw Gulshan Grover in the recent low budget, 19 Revolutions. Good role, playing an authority figure. Worth a rental.
jai singh: Must you mock my attempt to name drop?
Bit interesting that Indians are usually asked to act as villains in western movies! used to be black actors but then Equal oOportunity showed its brown face.