Hollywood’s Nicolas Cage in Bollywood gangster drama
Broken Horses is an English-language film—Chopra's first—about two brothers embroiled in the drug trade on the U.S.-Mexico border. It is said to be a loose remake of Chopra's acclaimed 1989 film Parinda, which starred Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor (who appeared in the Western film Slumdog Millionaire and the American TV show 24).
Chopra has said there’s nothing Indian about Broken Horses and it will be cast with Western actors. Award-winning American actor Mickey Rourke has reportedly been approached for an important role in it. The film will be shot in New Mexico and New York.
Chopra’s most recent production, 3 Idiots, a coming-of-age comedy starring Aamir Khan that released last December, is the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time. Chopra's first film, a documentary called An Encounter with Faces, about impoverished children in India, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1979. He made his first feature film in 1981, Sazaye Maut, a crime thriller. His most lauded films include 1942: A Love Story (1993), Mission Kashmir (2000), and Munna Bhai MBBS (2003). Chopra was recently honored with a retrospective of his work at the Indian Film Festival of London.
Despite recent financial troubles, Cage, an Oscar winner, remains one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood (he earned $40 million in 2009 according to Forbes magazine).
Cage is not the first Western actor to work in Bollywood. Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards appeared in the Bollywood film Kambakkht Ishq in 2009. British actor Sir Ben Kingsley—best-known for his Oscar-winning performance as the famous Indian independence leader in Gandhi (1982)—appeared in Teen Patti in 2010.
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