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MUMBAI: Going back to the original plan to shoot Joker
directed by Shirish
Kunder in 3D, the makers UTV Movies has decided that
the film starring
Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha and Minissha Lamba would
be in the regular 2D
format.
Said
Disney UTV Studios MD Siddharth Roy Kapoor, "For
a movie featuring a supersta, the draw is more of the
star power and the content. We have seen this in case
of many films over the past year that have clicked at
the BO more for the film itself rather than the incremental
business from 3D screens. Given this experience, we
took a collective decision with Akshay, Shirish and
his wife Farah Khan to complete Joker in the regular
2D format only."
In
1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being
drawn, the village of Paglapur didn’t find a
place in either country due to an oversight. The village
had the distinction of housing the largest mental
asylum in the region and in the melee that ensued
during partition, the asylum inmates broke loose,
drove away the villagers and established their own
republic Paglapur.
And
that’s how it stayed for the next 60 years! While
the world outside changed, Paglapur remained isolated,
with no electricity, television or sanity! Now, decades
after the world forgot this village, a Nasa scientist
of Indian origin, Raj and his wife Manali find themselves
on the road to Paglapur. Raj is working on a top secret
project for creating a device to communicate with
aliens. What ensues forms the crux of the film.
Kunder said, "Initially we had plans to make
Joker in the 3D format. But that is not to be. Taking
into account the recent responses of 3D movies, we
decided to reach out to a wider audience."
Going
by recent performances of our 3D films, the genre
has still a long way to go. Even Rakesh Roshan, who
had earlier planned to convert Krrish 3 that was shot
in the 2D format into 3D, is a little hesitant. "Whether
to incorporate 3D or not depends on the length of
the film," he averred.
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