Ace director Santosh Sivan, who is known for his critically acclaimed flicks like – ‘Halo’, ‘Malli’, ‘The Terrorist’ is all set to make a Hindi film based on the Hollywood adventure series ‘Indiana Jones’ starring King Khan Shah Rukh.

According to reports, Sivan is gearing up to make a fantasy adventure with SRK in the lead. The project that is still in a pre-production stage, will see SRK teaming up with Sivan after a long gap of seven years. The two had joined hands for SRK’s home production ‘Asoka’ previously. The untitled project will see Khan going on a quest searching for lost treasure, similar to that of Indiana Jones.

Apparantly, Shah Rukh had expressed his desire to work with Sivan again and was keen to do a big budget, out an out action genre flick and coincidently Sivan offered him the same, resulting in yet another alliance between the two.

It’s a big budget film and will be an out-and-out action adventure. There will be shades of romance and comedy as well.

Sivan will start work on this flick after the release of his much-anticipated film on Kashmir ‘Tahaan’.

Confusion prevailed over the screening of Dhaam Dhoom last evening with the Indian Bank Asset Recovery Management issuing a notice to refrain the screening since one of the executive producers of the movie owes the bank Rs. 24 crores. However, the producers held talks with the theatre owners and seemed to have ironed out the differences
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paving way to the uninterrupted screening.

In an informal emergency meeting convened to discuss on the issue, the producers and theatre owners arrived at a consensus. Media One, producers of Dhaam Dhoom, promised that they will take the issue with the court on Monday and requested the theatre owners to continue with the screening.

The movie was released yesterday after numerous hurdles, and enjoyed tremendous response at the box office with advance booking. Trade Analysts predict that this sudden turn of events could be a blow for the movie’s collections if not sorted out immediately.

he makers of children comedy Hari Puttar – A Comedy of Terrors continue to be in trouble.

Though the release date has been fixed at Sep 19, it will depend on the next hearing of the case filed by Hollywood studio Warner Bros alleging infringement of their copyright of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise.

Warner Bros filed the copyright case against Mirchi Movies, makers of the film.

Munish Purii, COO, Mirchi Movies, said that the next hearing will be on Sep 2 at the Delhi High Court when a judgement is expected.

The last hearing, scheduled at the Bombay High Court on Aug 25, was cancelled.

Asked what action they planned if the judgement went against them, Purii said: “Let’s wait and watch. We will see what we can do.”

Purii said he is hopeful of a favourable verdict as the title was registered way back in 2005 and feels it has no similarity to the popular Harry Potter series.

About the film, Purii said, “It is a 90 minute fun-filled film with four and a half minutes of animation where the two children take the audience for a joy ride.”

“It is a film about two children and the power of presence of mind and how the kids create a lot of hilarious sequences,” he added.

Music is an integral part of the film and the songs have been composed keeping in mind the situations in the story, he said.

“I think the music will be quite outstanding as we have tried to create fun filled music keeping in mind the storyline.”

Besides singers like Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan, Aadesh Shrivastav, Shaan and Neha Bhasin, new comers like Sameer and Aishwarya of Sa Re Ga Ma Chote Ustaad fame have also sung for the movie. The music has been composed by Aadesh Shrivastav and Guru Sharma.

Directed by Rajesh Bajaj and Lucky Kohli, Hari Puttar stars Zain Khan, Swini Khara, Jackie Shroff, Saurabh Shukla, Vijay Raaz and Sarika.