Piyush Jha (not be mistaken for Piyush Mishra) started his career with a youth flick Chalo America (1999). A small budget film, it was a light hearted take on the fascination that millions of youngsters have for America. The film's cast was led by Ashish Chaudhry who was pretty much a young boy then. Piyush followed it up with the Bollywood satire King Of Bollywood (2004) which was about this aging evergreen hero [played by Om Puri] who refused to face reality and call it a day in...
- 8/20/2009
- GlamSham
Piyush Jha has come home. Ten years ago he made a spoof film Chalo America about the compulsive and rampant Nri-ship among young Indians. Now Jha is totally on home turf with a film about a burning Indian issue. Sikandar takes us into the heartland of Kashmir militancy and was shot completely on location to the sound of booming guns and screaming bullets. That a filmmaker of Sudhir Mishra’s strong political leanings had enough faith in Piyush to let him do a film on Kashmir says it all. Piyush Jha talks to Subhash K Jha.
Sikandar takes you to the ‘forbidden’ land of Kashmir..
Sikandar takes you to the ‘forbidden’ land of Kashmir..
- 8/19/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Mumbai, Director Rahul Dholakia had to shift his "Lamhaa" shoot out of Jammu and Kashmir over security issues and protests, but "Sikandar" director Piyush Jha says it's "an absolutely beautiful place" and he didn't find shooting in the valley a problem at all. "Really, I didn't actually find it so challenging to shoot in Kashmir," said Jha who has moved on to a sensitive subject after making two comedies "Chalo America" and "King of Bollywood". "Kashmir was an absolutely beautiful place to be in. We shot in spring time because the view of the valley in that season is so spectacular. Also, I wanted to show Kashmir the way it was portrayed in the films of the 1960s and 70s. We didn't really have any issues shooting there as people were very ...
- 3/30/2009
- Bollywoodworld.com
It was regular browsing through newspapers that caught attention of director Piyush Jha (Sikandar) towards a topical issue. No, it wasn't terrorism but instances of children who happened to get hold of a weapon and went on a killing spree without any aim, rhyme or reason. "I have been reading so much about underage children having weapons with them", states Piyush who decided to move to thriller genre after directing two comedies Chalo America and King Of Bollywood, "Time and again, we come across newspaper reports with students from some American or European countries killing other children in schools. Now we have started seeing something similar in Indian as well."...
- 3/29/2009
- GlamSham
5 years back director Piyush Jha had made a Bollywood satire called King Of Bollywood. Staring Om Puri and British model Sophie Dahl in lead roles, the film had traveled widely across the festival circuit. An ad film maker turned director, Piyush's zeal for experimentation had earlier led him to venture into films and he made his very first film Chalo America (1999) which was showcased in the 'Indian Panorama' at the International Film Festival of India and many other international film festivals....
- 2/20/2009
- GlamSham
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