Releasing September 12, 2008
Film Director Vikram Bhatt is all set with his latest venture titled “1920”, a period horror film, produced by Mr. Surendra Sharma, Mrs. Amita Bishnoi and Mrs. Bhagwati Gabrani of ASA Production and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. (of Mumbai Salsa fame). With 1920, Vikram has now turned producer by joining hands with ASA Production and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. In this film, Vikram has launched two new talents, debutantes Rajneesh Duggal who is already a well-known model and Adah Sharma who will be seen in the main lead. The movie also casts actors Raj Zutshi, Vipin Sharma, Anjori Alagh, Vallab Vyas, Amin Haji, Ashish Pradhan, Smita Hai and Rushitaa Pandya. “1920” is scheduled to release allover on September 12, 2008.
Set in the year 1920, the film traces the love story of an Indian boy and an Anglo Indian girl. An architect, Arjun (Rajneesh Duggal) manages to win an assignment that involves the breaking down of an ancient, but beautiful castle-like house in a hill station and construct a hotel instead. The house is isolated in the wilderness has a secret. It is waiting for the curse to come true. For years everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died under strange circumstances. It is like the house has a will and a life of its own.
Arjun’ and his wife Lisa (Adah Sharma) move into the house. The haunting begins. Strange and inexplicable events start taking place. The curse says they will not survive. They will have to depend on the love and faith if they are to come out of this alive.
“This film is my most ambitious project to date. It’s a period-horror film called 1920. It’s a work of fiction. I’d say that it’s the most dynamic script I’ve come across. More powerful than RAAZ. 1920 turned out to be everything I had hoped for. A great love story of sacrifice, of god, of strife and of course devil. I saw in my mind a horse drawn carriage through the mist and a castle. That is all that I had when I started thinking about 1920. It was an instinct that when the period setting will blend with supernatural it will produce something unseen." Vikram quips.
One of the producers of the movie, Mr. Surendra Sharma of ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. says, “The idea of the movie is big and the mounting is lavish. Never has a supernatural thriller been attempted in a period setting and made at this scale. A resolve to bring the period alive in all its glory we shoot in candle light. It took 6 location managers, 12 countries, more than 5000 pictures, over six months of scouting …to find the haunted house.”
In keeping with the tradition of the great haunting melody, the music of the film has been composed by Adnan Sami. The lyrics are contributed by wordsmith Sameer. The tracks by the Maestro Pandit Jasraj, the unmatchable Shubha Mudgal, the haunting voice of Praveen Sultana, the dynasty of Kailash Kher and the queen of Hindi music Asha Bhosle herself makes 1920 into a collectors item. Moreover, there is also an item song by Rakhi Sawant.
ASA Production & Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. is the new corporate in the Entertainment Business. With their critically acclaimed Mumbai Salsa and now 1920 they made their foray deeper into the vastness of the film world. ASA plans to engage in television, exhibition, distribution and production. ASA will delve into the world of multiplex. They have three films under various stages of production that includes a Tamil film.
