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Bipasha Basu to star opposite Josh Hartnett in ‘Singularity’

By JENNIFER HOPFINGER


Singularity
Bollywood babe Bipasha Basu will appear with American actor Josh Hartnett in the Hollywood production Singularity, directed by Oscar-nominated Roland Joffe. Indian actor Abhay Deol also has a key role in the film, expected to release this fall.


In her first international project, Basu will play a Maratha warrior and the love interest of Hartnett's character, a British soldier. The film is an epic time-travel romance set in both 18th-century colonial India and the present day.


Singularity also stars former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and Star Trek star Chris Pine.


The project has been in the works for more than a decade and Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai and Vivek Oberoi as well as Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser were previously rumored to be connected with the film.


Joffe has directed such films as The Killing Fields (1984), about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, and City of Joy (1992), about Kolkata's slums, which starred Indian actors Shabana Azmi and Om Puri and American actor Patrick Swayze.




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January 20, 2011