How Samrat & Co got its title!
The
makers of Bollywoods ambitious detective saga Samrat & Co releasing on 25th April are indeed
grateful to Nitin Desai, the famous Art Director of Bollywood films. Says
Producer Kavita Barjatya, “Samrat & Co was our working title. However as we
grew with the subject and the character of Samrat, we just could not see
anything else fitting into the mould. We learnt that the title ‘Samrat’ was
registered with Nitin dada and on requesting him he very graciously offered to
give it to us.”
It is
also learnt that Nitin Desai has been signed on for the Salman film to be
directed by Sooraj Barjatya. So is Nitin Desai doing Kavita’s film too? Says
Kavita, “Nitin dada did send a message for Samrat & Co, which I am
producing under our family banner, to be directed by Kaushik Ghatak, but
however we are already committed to Mr. Jayant Deshmukh for this film as we
have worked together in the past too and share a wonderful rapport with him.”
Samrat
means emperor… has this film got something to do with a royal touch? We also
took a step forward to ask the films director Kaushik Ghatak on his choice of
this different title.
Says Kaushik, “The word Samrat speaks for itself… it
brings out the grandness of the character which we intended for our hero played
by Rajeev Khandelwal. Grandness in thought, grandness in attitude… Samrat is a
person who chooses to do what he wants..he may refuse the case of a rich
business tycoon inspite of being offered a lot of money and he would rather
pick a case if it is as simple as a child’s cat getting lost!”
Specially targeting India’s young audiences, ‘Samrat & Co’ is
the first of its kind detective franchisee, wherein the very nuances of
crime solving, human nature and the world of standalone private
investigators will be presented on the big screen on a pure
entertainment platform.
Releasing on 25th April 2014, ‘Samrat & Co’. is produced by Kavita Barjatya under her family banner Rajshri Productions and is directed by Kaushik Ghatak.
