May 7th, 2012

By: Goher Iqbal Punn

Producer: Judith Kames and Ashwin Kumar

Director: Ashwin Kumar

Cast: Javed Jafferi, Nandana Sen, Saleem Ali Zaidi and Ankur Vikal

The Forest is the flick that is all set to hit the screens all over but no scheduled date has been announced. The date of release is being finalized and hopefully will be out in the media soon. A presentation of Alipur Films, the film is a thriller which will appear to be a nail-biting experience for the viewers.

Ashwin Kumar directs this thriller which has been produced by Judith Kames and Ashwin Kumar. The movie features Javed Jafferi, Nandana Sen, Saleem Ali Zaidi and Ankur Vikal.  The movie’s subject is not novel but is interesting. If picturised with aplomb, the movie can hit the audiences’ hearts.

Synopsis:

The film talks about the leopards and their hunt for the humans. As per reports, more than 150 people get killed by the attacks of leopards and tigers in India every year. This happens because of the mounting poaching and encroachment on the wilderness. These kinds of wilder animals have turned the man-eaters. This film ;The Forest’ is about a wounded leopard who has now only one option to survive – to hunt the humans and this movie talks about its attack on the humans.

A married couple from a modern city arrives in the jungle on vacation in order to sort out their clashes and differences. Their marriage is in trouble thus they decide to go on vacation to sort out the troubled things in between. The wife’s ex-lover comes in between and in the wilderness of the jungle, they (husband and wife’s ex-flame) start brawling for the one woman. The leopard’s voice comes from the woods but they do not hear it due to their brawling. The starving leopard has been shot by the poachers and now it is unable to hunt the normal prey. He can now only hunt the weakest animal – human. And these humans are in his hunt of bracket. What happens next is what forms the thrilling moments of the film.

The dusky beauty Parineeti Chopra is quite IN these days in Bollywood scene. She is everywhere on the scene. Chopra has become much famous post the release of her debut vehicle ‘Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl’. In this YRF’s film, she got many awards for her debut marvelous performance. Now she is again all geared up for another Yash Raj Films’ film ‘Ishaqzaade’ featuring her in the main lead opposite Boney Kapoor’s son Arjun Kapoor who is making his Bollywood debut with this movie.

For this movie, Parineeti had to shed extra kilos from her body for the role. She says that she is the one woman who can easily gain weight. And making comparisons to her cousin Priyanka Chopra, she mentions that than her cousin sister, she can gain the weight more rapidly.

Parineeti told the reporters that Priyanka is much foodie than her but her metabolism is superb. She never gains much weight even after eating heavy foods but on the other hand, she (Parineeti herself) instantly gains a lot of weight if she eats heavily. Parineeti tells that she hates doing exercises. She goes on saying that she is a Punjabi girl and she loves food simply. Chopra reveals that she was much fat and used to wear the jeans of 36 sizes.

For the movies, she tells that she goes to gym only a month prior to the shooting. She avoids work outs and she mentions that for last one month, she did not do any work out.