My Name is Khan Shooting in Borivali Slums with Tanay Cheda

My Name is Khan Shooting in Borivali Slums with Tanay Cheda

After Slumdog Millionaire  the  West wants more  of the Mumbai slums. Last week Karan  Johar shot  some key  slum  sequences  in  Borivali  with the  the Slumdog Millionaire kid Tanay Cheda who played the teenage protagonist  Jamal in Danny Boyle's film, and  the incredibly underused  Zarina Wahab who plays the Khan's mother.

Karan  chose the boy  to play  the  childhood  section  of  Shah Rukh's  life  not only because  of his  facial likeness  to  Shah Rukh, but also because  of  the    Tanay's instant connectivity with the Mumbai slums and thereafter the Western audience.

Says the  director, "Tanay  is exceptionally talented . He was able to  imbibe Shah Rukh's character traits  and  use them to  make SRK's childhood look  convincing."

The  director now  intends  to   cast Tanay as junior SRK  whenever required, much  in the way that Master Mayur played the  young Amitabh Bachchan in a series of  films.

 Karan's  exposition on the Muslim identity  is  expected to reach  out to  a global non-NRI audiences. Though  the  take-off point  for  My Name Is Khan  is  9/11  not a single shot is  taken in New York.

The  film is set  in  Los Angeles and San Francisco. Two  of  the most expensove cities  in  the US for shooting.  While Karan Johar's production  of Rensil de Silva's Kareena-Saif film on terrorism   will have  Philadelphia  masquerading as  New York  ,  Johar's own  directorial  take on terrorism and the isolation  of  the working-class Muslim  has  gone to the two actual  US cities were  the  plot is location .

 Karan shot in LA earlier this year. He  leaves for San Francisco  in  May for a  40-day schedule. The  first and last  Hindi film to be  shot  in SF was Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal.

Putting his shoulder surgery  behind him  Shah Rukh with best friend Karan Johar and  favourite co-star Kajol  to accompany him, would be gone  to San Francisco for 40  days  in May and June  .

With Aamir Khan vacationing with his children  out  of  the country,  the two purported architects and mediator Karan Johar for   the solution for  the multiplex crisis are all    out  of   the  loop  putting a  large  question mark  before the  deadlock that threatens  to shut  the  film industry.