In a new Mumtaaz Avatar

So when not busy revisiting Tagore���������s Shesher Kobita with Mon Amour, he���������s a rebel with a cause re-examining the Maoist struggle with Aagunpakhi. But now he will mount his most ambitious endeavour till date, not pared down by budgetary constraints with an-all star line up that could have Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Kabir Bedi, Danny Denzongpa, Sushmita Sen and Udita Goswami leading the pack! AR Rahman and Resul Pookutty too are being bandied about. Tollywood will make its presence felt in the form of Mumtaz Sorcar who will soldier on no less as a warrior and just might bear a striking resemblance to a certain Ms Jolie from Beowulf.That was an adultfantasy film and had Jolie stepping out of the water nude, dripping gold with alittle digital assistance, of course. But Mumtaz ��������� while not filmed in asimilar photo-realistic animation style ��������� will hopefully emerge from thewater in Subhrajit���������s as-yet-untitled trilingual...clothed and knock-outcurves in place! ���������This character of a fierce warrior is a passivereference to the mysticism of Angelina Jolie in Beowulf with the agility of LaraCroft. We are currently in the storyboarding process wherein we are trying outdifferent looks for Mumtaz���������s character.���������The film is anarchaeological adventure tale with World War II as the backdrop. An industrysource claims that the budget of the project has already touched Rs 40 crore andis expected to go up: ���������We want to bring in the best technicians and aretrying to rope in the Academy Award-winning motion picture visual effectscompany from LA ��������� Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). This is the samecompany that has been associated with films like Star Trek, TerminatorSalvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and theHalf-Blood Prince.���������Cameron���������s Avatar might have surpassedall records, not only in terms of budget but also in the techniques offilm-making with its path-breaking technology and have B-town drooling over iteven if RGV felt like a pre-historic being of cinema in every which way, butSubhrajit believes there should be an Indian avatar of Indiana Jones, Pirates OfThe Caribbean or The Lord Of The Rings. ���������Based on a Bengali classicwritten in 1940s, my film would be a tribute to these films. Mine���������s astory about two groups ��������� one bad and the other good ��������� after a cursedtreasure.���������While 20 per cent of the film will be canned inKolkata, 60 per cent of it will be shot in Arunachal Pradesh and the rest inother parts of India.In her transformation for the role, an excited Mumtaz says,���������This is a lifetime role for me. I have always dreamt of a character thatis engaged in martial arts. I don���������t have much time to prepare for a roleof such scale but I shall try my level best. I���������ll try to do all the actionscenes myself and not use a body double. Although I don���������t have any ideaabout the final star cast, I am excited at the thought of getting to share thesame frame as Bollywood biggies. Full marks to Rajada (Subhrajit) who has takenup such a surreal venture that involves risks.���������Hope, this isone war that Subhrajit and his on screen warriors win in the long run!