

Characters change their outfits as frequently as if they were models with barely two seconds left to go on to the ramp.

As for the exotic costumes, they're a visual treat. With Rahman's fusion music and choreographer Raju Sundaram's mesmerising movements, the music in the film promises to be evocative. However, for Jeans, the special effects were created by the Pentafour company in Hollywood. Shankar duplicated the formula to come up with spectacular special effects. This time I have shown the Seven Wonders of the World." He also lined up a hundred junior artistes for months and insisted on a single song sequence featuring the Seven Wonders.ĮXPLORING THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: The two atop the Eiffel Tower in ParisHis inspiration came from music channels like Channel V and MTV with their technical excellence. "When it is a Shankar film, the audience comes in with great expectations," he says rather pompously, "I have to live up to them. This might not sound too convincing, but for the fact that he has a penchant for the unique - like transforming actor Kamalahaasan into a 70-year-old man in Indian and using a fibre glass bus in Kadalan. But why the unusual title? "I was attempting to portray rollicking youth in the film," he says. Even the Taj Mahal back home.Īfter three hits in a row, Shankar's Jeans promises to be the dessert after the main course. Especially since the crew went around the world in 45 days - the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Pyramids in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Iraq.

While filming in the Grand Canyon, the film crew had to hire helicopters for the shoot.
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The movie has all the ingredients of a blockbuster - exotic locations, special effects, technical brilliance and A.R. The project is also Amritraj's first foray into Tamil filmdom. The film's storyline isn't much to write home about - an eligible bachelor, NRI hero Prashant falls in love with a phirangi (foreign)-looking but very much Indian girl Aishwarya. As is the "around the world in one song" formula that the director of three major hits - Gentleman (Rs 3 crore), Kadalan (Rs 5 crore) and Indian (Rs 7 crore) - has adopted. With a Rs 20 crore spent on its production, mechanical engineer turned director Shankar's latest offering is already making waves. And they aren't taking you on a world tour, merely shooting a song for what is probably the Indian film industry's biggest venture ever - Jeans. EXPLORING THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: Newcomer Prashant and Aishwarya on the Great Wall of ChinaCavorting around the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, posing next to the Statue of Liberty in New York, dancing in the depths of the Grand Canyon, flouncing about California's orange orchards, singing atop the Great Wall of China - you name it and former Miss World and green-eyed stunner Aishwarya Rai and newcomer Prashant are there.
