Indian Actress Asin to fall in love with Japanese Superstar Tadanobu Asano

If every thing goes quite well, then actress Asin will star opposite Japanese superstar Tadanobu Asano along with Kamal Hassan in a Indo-Japanese-Disney production. It will be a martial arts movie to be shot on an international scale.

Bharath Bala and his Bharath Bala Productions (BBP) who makes television commercials, documentaries and music videos have now tied up with Walt Disney to produce the feature film in English, with versions in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Japanese. It will be directed by Bharath Bala and will have music by A.R Rahman.

The project is learnt to have a whopping 50-million dollar budget. Bala’s film is based on a script written by the best known writer in Malayalam M.T Vasudevan Nair or MT as he is popularly known, a Jnanpith award winner who has won five National awards for screenplay writing.

This period film deals with Kalaripayattu the martial arts form from Kerala and will trace its roots to the ninth century. MT’s script is now being re-written by Hollywood script doctors to give 19 Steps an international look and suitable for an overseas audience.

In the film Kamal plays a character role of a veteran Kalaripayattu guru who trains Tadanobu Asano in his fight against his enemies. Asin will play a local princess and a martial arts expert who falls in love with Asano.

Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan come face to face

Kamal Haasan's mega project Dasavatharam has opened across cinema halls and the film is being talked about, as it's the first time ever in the history of cinema that an actor would be seen in 10 different roles.

A special screening of this Tamil flick was held in Chennai and present at this screening was none another than superstar Rajinikanth. Needless to say, both Rajini and Kamal are considered as Demi-Gods down South and enjoy a tremendous fan following. So what was “Sivaji- The Boss”' reaction to his colleague's film. According to sources, Rajini was simply bowled over by the film and termed it as 'extraordinary'. With praises coming from none other than Rajini Sir himself, Kamal Haasan must be feeling all the more thrilled.

The magnum-opus which also stars Mallika Sherawat, Asin and Jaya Prada is directed by noted filmmaker K.S.Ravikumar. Bollywood's ace composer Himesh Reshammiya has given the music for this film which is being released with a record number of prints in India.