Farhan Akhtar’s next, Karthik Calling Karthik, has got a release date. The movie will hit the theatres on February 12, 2010.
Farhan Akhtar in Luck By Chance
The movie is written and directed by debutant Vijay Lalwani, and produced by Excel Entertainment (Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar). Karthik Calling Karthik will be exec produced by Miriam Joseph.
The movie will star Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Ram Kapoor and Shefali Shah.
Frankly, there is not much to tell about the movie or its storyline. Some reports claim that Karthik Calling Karthik is a pyschological thriller. Others say that the movie is about a broody man who gets “phone calls from himself.”
Farhan Akhtar has described his role in the movie as that of of an average Joe trying to make his way through life. The thriller comes with dash of humor and an interesting romance angle, Akhtar added.
Apparently, to get into the character he plays in Karthik Calling Karthik, that of a lonely brooder, Farhan Akhtar cut himself off from people around him during the filming of the movie.
Method acting and all that. Pity there is no Laurence Olivier around to tell him, “Try acting, son,” the way he said, famously, to Dustin Hoffman.