But Vicky Donor stole his thunder, reveals filmmaker John Matthew Mathan about the hero of his unreleased film - A New Love Ishtory
Director John Matthew Mathan has had a bit of a rough road in the Hindi film industry, especially after Sarfarosh. Post the film's success, he started work on a script based on the subject of brain drain. However, tragedy struck in the form of 9/11 and the story lost its relevance.
Unfazed, Mathan moved on to another project titled Shikhar (2005). And while it received critical acclaim, the film didn't fare too well at the BO.
It was in 2007 that the director started filming his next named A New Love Ishtory, written by Vipul K Rawal and starring Himesh Reshammmiya and Niharika Singh (who was earlier dating actor Rakesh Bapat).
The film was ready by 2009 but didn't hit theatres reportedly due to a fallout between Himesh and the producer T-Series. Apparently, Himesh's film with T-series Kajra Re was screened only once in a small theatre in SoBo and a theatre in Pune, which eventually led to them parting ways.
However this was only one of the reasons why the film didn't see the light of day, as Mirror can now reveal. Incidentally, Himesh and T-Series had later managed to iron out their differences. Then again, John Abraham's film Vicky Donor hit them like a bolt from the blue. And the subject of both films turned out to be the same.
In A New Love Ishtory, Himesh played a sperm donor, just like Ayushmann Khurana in Vicky Donor. Began Mathan, "My film was 95 per cent complete but after John came up with Vicky Donor...." and trailed off. After the release of Vicky Donor, there was no point releasing another film based on the same subject, that is A New Love Ishstory, which would have otherwise hit theatres late last year or possibly by June 2012.
Not one to say die though, Mathan told Mirror, "I'll be back," and added, "I am working on a script that revolves round the fickle-mindedness of today's youngesters. I am writing it."
But what about Sarfarosh 2 which he was planning to make with Aamir Khan? "Woh abhi nahin hua. Aamir hasn't heard it yet. I have kept it aside," Mathan said.
Director John Matthew Mathan has had a bit of a rough road in the Hindi film industry, especially after Sarfarosh. Post the film's success, he started work on a script based on the subject of brain drain. However, tragedy struck in the form of 9/11 and the story lost its relevance.
It was in 2007 that the director started filming his next named A New Love Ishtory, written by Vipul K Rawal and starring Himesh Reshammmiya and Niharika Singh (who was earlier dating actor Rakesh Bapat).
The film was ready by 2009 but didn't hit theatres reportedly due to a fallout between Himesh and the producer T-Series. Apparently, Himesh's film with T-series Kajra Re was screened only once in a small theatre in SoBo and a theatre in Pune, which eventually led to them parting ways.
However this was only one of the reasons why the film didn't see the light of day, as Mirror can now reveal. Incidentally, Himesh and T-Series had later managed to iron out their differences. Then again, John Abraham's film Vicky Donor hit them like a bolt from the blue. And the subject of both films turned out to be the same.
In A New Love Ishtory, Himesh played a sperm donor, just like Ayushmann Khurana in Vicky Donor. Began Mathan, "My film was 95 per cent complete but after John came up with Vicky Donor...." and trailed off. After the release of Vicky Donor, there was no point releasing another film based on the same subject, that is A New Love Ishstory, which would have otherwise hit theatres late last year or possibly by June 2012.
Not one to say die though, Mathan told Mirror, "I'll be back," and added, "I am working on a script that revolves round the fickle-mindedness of today's youngesters. I am writing it."
But what about Sarfarosh 2 which he was planning to make with Aamir Khan? "Woh abhi nahin hua. Aamir hasn't heard it yet. I have kept it aside," Mathan said.
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